This short paper describes the basic views of what is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and discusses the commonalities between many definitions that are proposed. The criteria to decide when a course is a and when it isn't are open to many interpretations. In this respect a European collaborative has developed a clear operational definition. Next, it is demonstrated that the MOOC have strong connections to both open and online education. As such these educational concepts are described as well and positioned in relation to MOOCs.
MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses. MOOCs have made headlines in higher education over the last years and generated a lot of discussion amongst educators, higher education institutions, government policy makers and private companies. No subject in educational technology in recent years has generated as much excitement and concern amongst the academic community as MOOCs. The media coverage, although somewhat diminishing, is huge compared to all other educational innovations in previous decades. It created interest of both private and public stakeholders resulting in serious investments.
What is seen as a MOOC is open to interpretation. There does not exist an unambiguous, straightforward definition of a MOOC that is broadly accepted. Every letter in MOOC is negotiable (see figure 1) and there is a lot of discussion going on about the meaning of each letter. Consequently each MOOC initiative (like BizMOOC project) is potentially ill-defined as well. supported in numerous other fields of human activity, including social, academic and cultural behaviour.
The MOOC territory is still very much a space of innovation and experimentation. It is therefore understandable why researchers in this emerging field of online education practice have not reached yet a standard definition for massive open online courses. Important differences can be identified in how this phenomenon is perceived by the various communities of practitioners.
Selwyn, Bulfin, & Pangrazio (2015) state that "MOOCs are courses available to masses of online learners for little or no cost". The definition proposed by Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Open_Online_Course) is more extended: "an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants".
However, these definitions are not strict and can be disputed. The Commonwealth of Learning (2015) proposes a definition that already includes some specification:: "A MOOC is an online course that requires no prior qualifications for entry, can be accessed by anyone who has an Internet connection, and includes large or very large numbers of learners". However, this also creates some discussion related to prior qualifications needed for entry, but in many cases prior qualifications are necessary to understand and success in the course.
In the framework of the pedagogical research developed as a collaboration with different EU-funded MOOC projects, a more comprehensive definition was adopted "an online course designed for large number of participants that can be accessed by anyone anywhere, as long as they have an internet connection, is open to everyone without entry qualifications and offers a full/complete course experience online for free" (Brouns et al., 2014). In 2015, this definition has been validated amongst European institutions (Jansen et al., 2015). In addition different criteria for MOOC development were defined as well (http://www.openuped.eu/images/docs/Definition_Massive_Open_Online_Courses.pdf), for example related to massive dimension and scalability (The pedagogical model of the course is such that the efforts of all services (including of academic staff on tutoring, tests, etc.) does not increase significantly as the number of participants increases).
Massive: designed for in theory unlimited number of participants. This means that the course is designed such that the efforts of all services does not increase significantly as the number of participants increases.
Open: access to the course is free without entry qualifications.
Online: the full course is available through the internet.
Course: the offering is a course, meaning that it offers a complete learning experience, i.e. structured around a set of learning goals in a defined area of study and includes the course materials, quizzes, feedback, examination and certificate of completion.
Course can be narrowed down to exclude a certificate or even exclude any form of (formative) assessment.
Consequently, some online courses are not a MOOC according to the more strict definition.
MOOC can be seen as a form of open education offered free through online platforms. The (initial) philosophy of MOOCs is to open up quality higher education to a wider audience. However, although the concept of open education is often mentioned, it is not usually combined with a clear and solid description of what the term means. What "open" means in open education has been the subject of some debate (Open Education Handbook, 2014) and is increasingly becoming associated with "free" only. Note for example that the Open Education Consortium focusses its description to the free and open sharing in education (http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/).
In his book "The Battle for Open", Martin Weller (2014) gives an overview of the open movement, and concludes that "adopting a single definition is counter-productive" and that motivations for the open approach are the most important. In the traditional historical context open education is aimed at education for people with no or limited access to the educational system. In a somewhat broader context it is recognised that primarily open education is associated with removing barriers to education (Bates,2015). Instead of providing a definition one could adopt the following statement related to the most common referred purpose of open education: The aim of open education is to increase access to and successful participation in education by removing barriers and offering multiple ways of learning and sharing knowledge.
This potential of open education was strongly marked by the Cape Town Open Education Declaration (Shuttleworth/OSF, 2008). Note that the above aim of open education is not related to barriers of access only (i.e., not only aimed at the entry barriers), but at all barriers along the learning paths.
In this context, MOOCs form part of open education and should be defined as such. Mulder and Jansen (2015) explore if MOOCs can be instrumental to open up education. They conclude that some barriers will not or probably cannot be removed easily by MOOCs and ther providers. Moreover MOOC themselves do create other barriers like network connectivity (learners need good internet connection), digital literacy and for now also cultural language barriers (as still most MOOC are from Western countries in English). They state that in general MOOCs are (still) a promising tool for open education.
A course where most or all of the content is delivered. Online (>80% of content is delivered online). Typically there are no face-to-face meetings (http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/gradelevel.pdf, page 7).
An umbrella term used to describe any education or training that occurs online. In online education the learning is a result of (online facilitated) experiences that are not constrained by time and/or distance. The label 'online' applies to both delivery of course material and to the interaction between teachers and learners, and between learners (http://empower.eadtu.eu/glossary#O).
All course activity is done online; there are no required face-to-face sessions within the course and no requirements for on-campus activity (http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/updated-e-learning-definitions/).
In the context of MOOCs, online courses must be seen as a course that is offered fully online. If it's not, then it's a blended or hybrid course. The deciding factor should not be only related to the amount of course content offered online but all other course elements as well (i.e., study guide / syllabus, educational content, facilitation of (academic) interaction, activities/tasks, tests, including feedback, assessment and exam). As such even if a single in-person, on-campus class is scheduled and required, then the course is blended. Thus, students in online courses rarely if ever need to step on campus.
How does a MOOC differ from an online course?
MOOCs are for some part open, at least are accessible for free without entry qualifications.
Some of the above abbreviations might even not be characterised as online course as they require attendance to class room at a campus. The above type of online courses differ from MOOCs by some essential elements, mainly they limit the number of participants. Note that these type of online course can, for part, still be open by removing some barriers to education but are not open to everyone. And as such they are still contributing to the opening of education for all by designing a course to a limited by still multiple target group.
Although there are different definitions, open and online education are recognized as underlying principles behind MOOCs. What's unique about a MOOC is partly related to the embracing of both the open (for free, no-entry requirements – open to everyone) and online component of education. The scalability and massive dimension seems the main driver behind the MOOC movement. There is no precise number to define "massive" and it might even depend on characteristics like the number of people speaking the language of the MOOC offered. It's generally agreed that in MOOCs the number of participants is larger than can be teached in a 'normal' campus class room AND that the design of the MOOC is scalable ('designed for in theory unlimited number of participants'). In this context the definition as agreed on by many European MOOC initiatives (Jansen et al, 2015) seems to be the most operational, also as it defines various criteria for an open and online course to be a MOOC.
Due to the success of MOOCs many other, almost similar, abbreviations are used. Consequently, MOOCs and the term 'open' are also misused to boost sales and increase funding, e.g. using the word MOOC in funding applications increases the success rate significantly. Especially if there is no clear definition anyone can claim to be involved in open and online education, MOOCs, etc. Other parties with more private and commercial intentions are increasingly using these hype words to sell their products or to get additional funding for their efforts. I.e., commercial and private products are labelled as MOOCs in order to boost sales despite failing to comply with the criteria – definition of MOOCs let alone to comply with their initial goals. The term used for these practices is called 'MOOCwashing' (Bell, 2012), comparable with greenwashing, which is when environmentally unfriendly products are positioned as green and eco-friendly in order to boost sales (Weller, 2014). It is therefore essential to adopt a clear definition of concepts of MOOCs and open and online education.
Brouns, F., Mota, J., Morgado, L., Jansen, D., Fano, S., Silva, A., & Teixeira, A. (2014). A networked learning framework for effective MOOC design: the ECO project approach. In A. M. Teixeira & A. Szücs (Eds.), 8th EDEN Research Workshop. Challenges for Research into Open & Distance Learning: Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things. Oxford, United Kingdom Budapest, Hungary: EDEN.
Citate from Research Gate Rey Segundo Guerrero-Proenza: "Are we witnessing an irreversible transformation from MOOC into M$OC?
In Italy the culture of the Mooc is starting to advance for a few months. In particular, universities offer sections on official websites dedicated to moocs.
Thank you Sara. I'm aware of mature uptake of MOOC by Napoli Federico II, PoliMI and collaboration of universities within EduOpen. Could you pinpoint us to other initiatives in Italy? Is there a governmental ploicy that stimulate those MOOC initiatives?


text: PUBLIC LAW 106-506—NOV. 13, 2000 114 STAT. 2351 Public Law 106-506 106th Congress An Act To promote environmental restoration around the Lake Tahoe basin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Lake Tahoe Restoration Act". SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that— (1) Lake Tahoe, one of the largest, deepest, and clearest lakes in the world, has a cobalt blue color, a unique alpine setting, and remarkable water clarity, and is recognized nationally and worldwide as a natural resource of special significance; (2) in addition to being a scenic and ecological treasure. Lake Tahoe is one of the outstanding recreational resources of the United States, offering skiing, water sports, biking, camping, and hiking to millions of visitors each year, and contributing significantly to the economies of California, Nevada, and the United States; (3) the economy in the Lake Tahoe basin is dependent on the protection and restoration of the natural beauty and recreation opportunities in the area; (4) Lake Tahoe is in the midst of an environmental crisis; the Lake's water clarity has declined from a visibility level of 105 feet in 1967 to only 70 feet in 1999, and scientific estimates indicate that if the water quality at the Lake continues to degrade, Lake Tahoe will lose its famous clarity in only 30 years; (5) sediment and algae-nourishing phosphorous and nitrogen continue to flow into the Lake from a variety of sources, including land erosion, fertilizers, air pollution, urban runoff, highway drainage, streamside erosion, land disturbance, and ground water flow; (6) methyl tertiary butyl ether— (A) has contaminated and closed more than one-third of the wells in South Tahoe; and (B) is advancing on the Lake at a rate of approximately 9 feet per day; (7) destruction of wetlands, wet meadows, and stream zone habitat has compromised the Lake's ability to cleanse itself of pollutants; (8) approximately 40 percent of the trees in the Lake Tahoe basin are either dead or dying, and the increased quantity Nov. 13, 2000 [H.R. 3388] Lake Tahoe Restoration Act. Forests and forest protection. California. Nevada. 79-194O-00 - 10:QL3Part4

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A new Southeast Asian experience that won't break the bank.
If you've ever found yourself fortunate enough to be watching The Simple Life with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie you will have heard the words, "That's hot," spill from their mouths. Well, if Paris had tried Hot Hot she may have had to double her word quota and try to and sound enthusiastic for once.
Head towards Sandringham Road for a Southeast Asian experience that won't break the bank and doesn't require you to fly 15 hours. Just a stone's throw from Eden Park, you'll find Hot Hot next to the institution that is Papa's Pizza. As soon as you enter this little gem you'll find yourself transported to your favourite destination in Southeast Asia, eating that dish you've contemplated taking a world food tour just to find again. Three words: pork belly bao.
If you're after bustling and busy, sit downstairs, or if you're with a group and feel like taking a few seconds to soak up the bright murals, venture upstairs. There you'll find space for you and your friends, and artwork to stimulate your small talk if you find yourself lacking.
Start with a bao ($9), preferably the pork belly. It's sweet, tender, topped with crunchy peanuts, and sure to fill the bao-sized hole that Southeast Asia left last summer. From there, we suggest going for the cold noodles with lemongrass chicken ($16.50) for a refreshing change in temperature. It even has the option of tofu crisped to perfection if you'd prefer to go sans meat. Wash it all down with a Thai beer from Hot Hot's extensive selection and experience what true satisfaction tastes/feels like.
If you can fit in dessert, we hear the fried banana with chocolate sauce will treat you right. You might not be able to order a tuk tuk from the bar, but toddle on down to the train station with a full belly and happy heart. With no jetlag the next day, Hot Hot has to be the perfect gastro-destination.


Nicholas Wooldridge has been in New York City over almost a decade and during that time he has established himself as the attorney-of-choice for clients involved in high-stakes, and high profile, cases. Mr. Wooldridge's reputation for excellence in the coatroom is matched only by his reputation for care outside of the courtroom. He provides legal consumers with counsel in a down-to-earth manner, and explains the esoteric workings of justice in simple, everyday terms that can be easily understood.
Mr. Wooldridge provides a confident shoulder, for those seeking his help, to lean on as they go through some of life's most difficult moments. Mr. Wooldridge's guidance is calm and steady and is built on a foundation of concern for those for whom he labors. The aura of confidence around Mr. Wooldridge makes it easy for people who know him to refer him to their friends and family.
Since 2015, Nicholas has been practicing in Las Vegas, NV, where he established his own law firm – LV Criminal Defense.
Originally from America's southwest, Mr. Wooldridge graduated from the Boyd School of law, with honors, in 2003. Upon graduation, Mr. Wooldridge was mentored by noted Criminal Defense Attorney Lawrence Wishart, a formidable trial lawyer in Nevada. Moving to New York in 2005, Mr. Wooldridge began working at his own practice and concentrated on business disputes and other commercial litigation matters.
Mr. Wooldridge has been at the epicenter of some of the most important cases seen in American jurisprudence. His skill is rapidly becoming established in international circles as the totem for cross-boundary law, finance and criminal defense.
The most recent example is Azamat Tazhayakov case of Boston Marathon bombings.


Watch this video to get a glimpse of what the Portland area has to offer.
More information about Portland itself is coming soon.
If you haven't been to Portland in say 32 years, you might not recognize this peak. It's in the same place, about 50 miles northeast of the city, but for those of you without helicopters, it is a couple of hours by car. But there is more gone than there used to be. If you go to the mountain (we prefer that to having it come to you), you can see videos, visit information centers and hike around areas that were devastated and are slowly recovering.
If you take Horace Greeley's advice and go west from Portland you will soon (90 minutes or so) hit the Pacific. My advice is to stop just short. The state is deservedly proud of its state law which makes the entire 363-mile coastline public land. Highway 26 takes you to the coast and went you hit the shore go north or south for numerous options either way. Beaches and towns in easy reach include Astoria (where The Goonies was filmed) Seaside (more developed, with arcades, shops, rentals-a-plenty, and Skee-ball) and Cannon Beach (more reserved and tranquil with boutiques and fine dining.
And speaking of fine dining, the Willamette Valley (the Willamette River flows through Portland) is home to a couple of hundred wineries. Many offer tours and tastings and are within an hour or two of Portland. Organized tours that take you to several vineyards are available. You can be picked up from your hotel door, e.g. on a trip that would take you to visit 5 wineries in a single afternoon.


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Q: Google Maps API v3 recenter the map to a marker i am searching for a way to recenter (focus) the map if an marker is outside the map. For example if you click on a marker which is not in your viewarea ...
Marker 1: New York Marker 2: SanFransisco
in V2 i make this way...but for v3 the containsLatLng needs an extra libary and did not work for me ...(see my other post:  Google Maps v3 map.getBounds().containsLatLng is not a function) is they any other way to focus to a marker position??
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        if ((!map.getBounds().contains(marker.getPosition())) & (showAllCategoryElements == 0)) {
        var newCenterPointLng = (map.getBounds().getCenter().lng() + marker.getPosition().lng()) / 2;
        var newCenterPointLat = (map.getBounds().getCenter().lat() + marker.getPosition().lat()) / 2;

        map.panTo(marker.getPosition());
        //map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(newCenterPointLat, newCenterPointLng));

        if (!map.getBounds().contains(marker.getPosition())){
            map.zoomOut();
        }
    }

A: The method you want is contains(), not containsLatLng(). map.getBounds().contains(marker.getPosition())
You could use either the setCenter() or panTo() methods of the map to center on the marker position: map.setCenter(marker.getPosition()) or map.panTo(marker.getPosition())
So if I understand correctly what you are trying to do, it should look like this:
if ((!map.getBounds().contains(marker.getPosition())) && (showAllCategoryElements == 0)) { //Note the double &
    map.setCenter(marker.getPosition());
    //OR map.panTo(marker.getPosition());
}

A: Its actually not that complex, its just a bit tricky.
When creating your click event on a marker you can get the long and latitude which you declared to make the points and pan to this location.
In my code its like this, long and lat are declared as variables gotten from html:
    var longitude = item.querySelector('#longitude').innerText;
    var latitude = item.querySelector('#latitude').innerText;

    const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
            title: titel,
            icon: "[url to marker]",
            position: new google.maps.LatLng(longitude, latitude),
            map: map
        });

and then for the panning to location on long lat.
        google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "click", function() {
            // JQuery to close all other markers before opening this one
            jQuery(".gm-ui-hover-effect").click();

            // Pan to long lat defined inside the marker locations
            var laLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(longitude, latitude);
            map.panTo(laLatLng);
            map.setZoom([place value for zoom level here]);

            infowindow.open(map, this);
        });

        infowindow.close();

Note: in my code this is done in a for loop to get all the marker locations, this should not matter for most of the code but is worth to note if you directly copy paste this code.

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GoPro camera launched, lost in 2013 returns to reveal Grand Canyon from space
Marcy Jones' Reports
(FOX NEWS) - It took five friends a couple months of planning to record the perfect GoPro shot. It took two years to get the footage back.
Members of the group recounted the amazing journey that took a GoPro camera from the terrain of Tuba City, Ariz., to the edge of space and back in posts on YouTube and Reddit. The June 2013 expedition was designed to capture breathtaking aerial views of the Grand Canyon and its surrounding area via a GoPro, camcorder and Galaxy Note II launched on a weather balloon.
>>VIDEO: Grand Canyon from the Stratosphere! A Space Balloon Story
After reaching a maximum altitude of about 18 miles, during a flight time of slightly more than 90 minutes, the payload fell to the desert floor, where it remained for two years. The team was using the GPS on the smartphone to track the package, but they encountered a problem during the descent.
"The problem was that the coverage map we were relying on (looking at you, AT&T) was not accurate, so the phone never got signal as it came back to Earth, and we never heard from it," the user trexarmsss wrote in a Reddit post.
Read the full story at FOXNews.com.


I just think this is an incredibly beautiful album. It emphasises what it is that I like about music. I love it when music is complex in its way. That it takes simple things against simple things and places them next to each other in ways that create complexity, without having to have massive harmonic complexity.
Rhythmic complexity to me is interesting, but it's only interesting when it doesn't sound clever. For me, this doesn't sound clever. Reich studied in Mali for several years. He worked with African drummers. Great polyrhythmic stuff comes from two very simple things put against each other. The whole essence of this record is polyrhythms with very simple arpeggios played by multiple instruments. Nobody's playing anything complicated, but the combination of the 18 people together makes something which is harmonically sonorous, and maybe slightly complex, but not difficult. The way that it changes almost imperceptibly going from a D minor chord to an A minor chord without you really knowing when. But then all of a sudden you know it's changed.


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In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts, which eventually become rift valleys.  Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between oceanic plates and exist as mid-oceanic ridges.

Current research indicates that complex convection within the Earth's mantle allows material to rise to the base of the lithosphere beneath each divergent plate boundary.
This supplies the area with huge amounts of heat and a reduction in pressure that melts rock from the asthenosphere (or upper mantle) beneath the rift area, forming large flood basalt or lava flows. Each eruption occurs in only a part of the plate boundary at any one time, but when it does occur, it fills in the opening gap as the two opposing plates move away from each other.

Over millions of years, tectonic plates may move many hundreds of kilometers away from both sides of a divergent plate boundary. Because of this, rocks closest to a boundary are younger than rocks further away on the same plate.

Description

At divergent boundaries, two plates move away from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten magma that forms below. The origin of new divergent boundaries at triple junctions is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as hotspots. Here, exceedingly large convective cells bring very large quantities of hot asthenospheric material near the surface, and the kinetic energy is thought to be sufficient to break apart the lithosphere.

Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise, and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley. Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive transform faults occur. These are the fracture zones, many bearing names, that are a major source of submarine earthquakes. A seafloor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis. If one views the seafloor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear. Crest depths of the old ridges, parallel to the current spreading center, will be older and deeper... (from thermal contraction and subsidence).

It is at mid-ocean ridges that one of the key pieces of evidence forcing acceptance of the seafloor spreading hypothesis was found. Airborne geomagnetic surveys showed a strange pattern of symmetrical magnetic reversals on opposite sides of ridge centers. The pattern was far too regular to be coincidental as the widths of the opposing bands were too closely matched. Scientists had been studying polar reversals and the link was made by Lawrence W. Morley, Frederick John Vine and Drummond Hoyle Matthews in the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothesis. The magnetic banding directly corresponds with the Earth's polar reversals. This was confirmed by measuring the ages of the rocks within each band. The banding furnishes a map in time and space of both spreading rate and polar reversals.

Examples
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Red Sea Rift
Baikal Rift Zone - incipient plate boundary
East African Rift - incipient plate boundary
East Pacific Rise
Gakkel Ridge
Galapagos Rise
Explorer Ridge
Juan de Fuca Ridge
Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
West Antarctic Rift System
Southeast Indian Ridge

Other plate boundary types
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary

See also

References

Plate tectonics

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The effective use of a variety of resources to access information is critical to academic achievement. The District has developed comprehensive plans to promote the use of technology and library/media resources to enhance the quality of teaching and learning experiences.
This is a site by Margaret Jensen for the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Here you may find great books for beginning readers, separated into categories such as books featuring "Rhyme and Rhythm," "Repetition," or "Sight Words." The list for each category begins with the easiest to read books, and then ends with the more difficult ones, as your child's reading skill and confidence level grows.
Get info on this year's Caldecott Medal award-winning books, as well as link to past winners.
The librarians at the Morton Grove Public Library in Illinois have created one of the best web-menus for booklists I've ever seen! Use this directory to search for booklists in over 45 categories. Click on "Boys," to help your child find books in which the main characters are boys; click on "Girls;" "Mysteries;" "Humor;" "Dogs;" "Talking Animals;" etc. You can even click on a "Harry Potter Guide" which lists all characters in the series and the book(s) in which they appear, great quotations, etc. You'll LOVE this website!
Here is a link to the American Library Association's Newbery Medal page. Get info on this year's award winners in American Literature, as well as link to past winners.
This public library webpage provides links to lots of great resources, including to some popular authors' websites.


09/02/03 NON-RETURNED (1); 05/30/02 NEW (1); 05/24/02 DONATED BY PHAT ART 4 (1) A charming realistic story told by the "big brother". This book is perfect for young siblings and as a guide for helping preschool and kindergarten aged students better understand their peers with autism.
Walsh, Sharon; Smith Barbara J.; Taylor, Ross C.
This guide provides information to assit early childhood general educators, early childhood special educators/related service providers, parents/administrators in understanding what IDEA now requires to young children with disaiblities ages birth-5 years and their families.
DONATED 12/19/02 A whimsical and engaging introduction to relative sizes.
DONATED 12/19/02 Cartoon book about the four seasons.
DONATED 12/19/02 Picture book that combines simple rhymes with bright, crisp photographs to help children learn about opposites.
DONATED 12/19/02 Picture book designed to help young children learn to recognize and name shapes.
DONATED 12/19/02 Picture book designed to help young children understand the concept of comparative size.


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Opportunity Finance Network and Starbucks Collaborate to Create Jobs
Many people must have their cup of Joe to make it through the morning. Now they can contribute to a much needed cause while they are at it.
On November 1, almost 7,000 Starbucks stores across the country and the Opportunity Finance Network, a national coalition of more than 180 community development financial institutions (CDFIs), launched a fundraising initiative to kick start job creation in the U.S.
Through the initiative, Create Jobs for USA, Starbucks customers can make tax-deductible contributions to a fund to help local companies hire and retain workers.
One hundred percent of donations will go to the CDFIs to finance underserved community businesses—small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate developers, and affordable housing developers. All of these community businesses help to create and sustain local jobs.
More than 90 members of the NeighborWorks network are CDFIs. Related NeighborWorks capital corporations NeighborWorks Capital and Community Housing Capital are also CDFIs.
One organization that is making a difference both in housing and business lending is Community Ventures Corp (CVC), a Lexington-based member of the NeighborWorks network for ten years. CVC is the largest micro-enterprise business lender in the Small Business Administration system, making business loans as small as $500.
Kevin Smith, president and CEO of CVC said, "As a CDFI serving entrepreneurs throughout Kentucky, Community Ventures Corporation applauds the Opportunity Finance Network and Starbucks for creating space where small actions can pay great returns."
Jennifer Vasiloff, executive vice president for policy at the Opportunity Finance Network is excited about the potential.
"Create Jobs for USA has the potential to raise tens of millions of dollars and make more credit available all across the U.S," Vasiloff said. "I never thought I would see a major corporation like Starbucks using its scale, the power of its brand, and its vast consumer marketing expertise to help people understand the concept of a CDFI. Millions will learn about these profit-making (but not profit-maximizing) nonprofit financial institutions that lend in underserved communities."
The Starbucks Foundation is putting up $5 million to kick start the Create Jobs for USA campaign and is encouraging others to chip in. Customers who donate $5 or more will get a red, white and blue wristband with the message "Indivisible."
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If you'll post new content less often, have a more static and feature-focused design. If you'll post more often, go for a blog-style design.
Place your logo in the top-left, and put the menu either to the right of or below it – and make sure the logo is clickable and takes the visitor back to your home page. The reason for these? Accepted conventions – it's what most web users expect, so there's no need to get creative deciding where to place the steering wheel in your car design, so to speak.
Include the search bar in the upper left or right (if applicable of course ie. you have enough content to warrant search). Also, include the word "Search" in-form so people know what that type-able bar is for.
Either have the contact info or form as separate page with a dedicated link in the menu or footer, or include the contact info in the sidebar or footer.
Have your help page(s) – things like FAQ, technical support, documentation – easy to find, either in the menu or most likely in the footer.
You increase the likeliness of your visitors clicking on desired links and buttons – as well as making them feel less lost – when you reinforce the click-ability and actionable-ness of things. Do that by including state-changes in links and buttons ie. change the appearances when hovering and clicking.
When a visitor clicks inside of a form field, highlight it to reinforce that when the visitor starts typing, that's where text will be inputed or an action will result.
Eliminate surprises for your visitors by avoiding inconsistency. Keep the following and anything else as consistent as possible (and that includes full-width pages vs. sidebar-included pages): colors, link colors, structure, interface, and where the elements are.
Group forms in a way that makes them easy to follow. For example, the first and last name on one line, city and state/province on another, and so forth. Also, make it obvious what each one is with titles before each form (Name) and what you need to input included in-form (First Name, Last Name).
Add breadcrumbs near the top of pages for the checkout/signup/etc. processes. This is so visitors know how far along they are and what's left. Visitors hate guesswork and not knowing how much longer something will take, so eliminate that for them. Here's a tutorial on adding breadcrumbs to WordPress without a plugin.
Show price/specs/description right away in your grid/list/index pages. Don't require hovering or clicking and going to another page in order to see them. The faster your visitor can browse and find what they want, the happier they'll be and the more likely they'll keep coming back for your stuff. You no doubt know the feeling of getting fed up with an inefficient website design and stopping using it all too well – don't let your website be one of those.
Unless you're Nike or Apple or Sony or a instantly-recognizable-worldwide brand, always have your name/logo and tagline at the top so people know where they are at all times. This is especially important if they directly came to one of your pages/posts from an outside link.
Don't use animations or graphics that hinder navigation. Visitors want to access content and information, not figure out how to click on a menu item or watch some animation for the hundredth time.
1997 called – it wants its splash pages back. But seriously, unless your entire website is essentially a splash page (a single-item promotion site, like for a movie), don't annoy visitors by surprising them with a full-page ad when they're expecting your website. Put the promotion content on your home page instead, so it's still immediately-visible while giving visitors the choice on whether to act on it or not – for example, they're in a hurry and want to click on a menu item, not be greeted with a full-page ad.
This helps to increase readability. There's a reason magazines are constantly breaking up text with images and graphs – it makes reading that 6000-word article much easier.
Space text out with headlines, segments with images, and bullet lists to increase scan-ability. This lets your visitors find what they want on a page/post and read that faster, as well as letting them get a quick gist of something before committing to reading it.
Yes, forehead-slapping obvious. But this is essential for two reasons: to confirm to the visitor that not only you are professional and legitimate, and to reassure them they're on the right website, rather than a subdomain of some free service or something. And since domains are ridiculously affordable at around €25 per year (or cheaper depending on when you're reading this), there's absolutely no reason not to have your own domain.
Having clear and short permalinks on your website not only makes it easier for people to share the URLs – since they fit easier in places where they're pasted – but you reassure them what they're reading or about to read, since they can clearly see what the page/post will be about, rather than a bunch of gibberish like numbers and symbols.
21% of Irish businesses have e-commerce?
Irish businesses planning e-commerce fightback?
For failing to develop their sites for e-commerce, Irish businesses are losing online business to the UK and other markets which are targeting Irish consumers. As a result, they are planning an e-commerce fightback.
Irish retailers and other traditional businesses are planning to step up e-commerce activity in 2011 and encourage more Irish consumers to buy from Irish rather than overseas websites.
According to the latest State of the Net quarterly bulletin, price-conscious consumers are turning increasingly to the internet to research and buy products and services.
Higher internet adoption levels, smartphone and social media usage, as well as a range of internet-only deals, will also result in higher e-commerce sales this Christmas.
However, Irish businesses are losing e-commerce business to the UK and other markets, which are targeting Irish consumers.
Many Irish e-commerce sites lag behind international sites in terms of the user experience, the deals on offer and the average transaction value.
Last week, the .ie Domain Registry (IEDR) revealed that only 66pc of Irish businesses had websites and of these a mere 21pc had e-commerce capability.
To make matters worse, the IEDR revealed there has been only a 3pc net increase since 2000 in the number of firms conducting e-commerce on their websites.
If this is the case, it's hardly surprising that Irish consumers under served locally online are turning to overseas providers. For being e-commerce laggards, Irish firms have been paying the price.


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Perhaps the most glaring weakness in the analysis is its failure to account for the loss of advice, guidance, and services that individual retirement account (IRA) investors would suffer should the rule be implemented as proposed—help that they depend on to reach their retirement savings goals.
Because the rule would place onerous restrictions on brokers and other commission-based advisers, and prompt many of them to exit the marketplace, IRA investors hoping to retain access to financial advice would be forced to turn to fee-based advisers. Those who do would likely pay more in fees.
But not all IRA investors would have that option. Those with lower account balances would be unable to meet fee-based advisers' minimum-balance requirement (often $100,000). That means many IRA investors could be shut out of investment information entirely. More than three-quarters of individual traditional IRAs hold less than $100,000 today.
The implied conclusion is that, by adding other parts of "a larger financial portfolio," most owners of IRAs with low balances would be able to meet fee-based advisers' $100,000 minimum—and so retain access to vital investment information. But this is just another DOL conclusion that doesn't stand up against the evidence.
As the figure below shows, 64 percent of households with IRAs—almost two-thirds—have total balances of less than $100,000, even when combining all the traditional and Roth accounts in the household. And even after including taxable investable assets that IRA investors could bring to a financial adviser, half of IRA-owning households still would be unable to meet the typical $100,000 minimum.
Note: IRAs include traditional and Roth IRA assets held by the household. Components do not add to 100 percent because of rounding.
This finding is not that surprising. Except among the very wealthiest households, home equity and job-based retirement assets make up most of household net worth—and, of course, neither of those can be invested with a fee-based adviser.
No matter how you look at the data, the overarching finding is clear. The DOL's proposed rule would cut millions of IRA investors off from the brokers and other commission-based advisers they depend on for retirement investment information—and cost these investors $109 billion in added fees and lower returns over its first 10 years.
The wealthiest households might still be able to obtain investment information through fee-based advisers—and absorb the added expense that doing so would entail. Lower-income families, on the other hand, wouldn't be so lucky.


The gay, black gunman who killed a reporter and a cameraman during a live television broadcast last week was driven by the "grievance culture of our time," but there may well have been something deeper at work, conservative columnist George Will said Sunday.
While the grievance culture is a cornerstone of the progressive ideology embraced by President Barack Obama and the Democrat Party, progressive materialism doesn't explain everything, Will said.
Channeling his inner-Ronald Reagan, Will said that instead of blaming a "defect in society" or turning to government to solve every problem, there are times when society must recognize that evil does exist.
Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action for America, agreed that in a society that is "increasingly uncomfortable with the concept of evil," sometimes there's just no other explanation to explain tragedies.


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Palestinians need real freedom, not a deformed state
Day after day, it is becoming amply clear that the Palestinian Authority (PA) regime in Ramallah is implicated in the gradual implementation of conspiratorial designs devised by the U.S. and Israel and aimed at liquidating the Palestinian national cause.
by by Khalid Amayreh PIC&Ikhwanweb
Today, the United States is belatedly discovering that its protracted dark embrace of Israeli apartheid which is morphing itself in many respects into a sort of home-grown Nazism, is costing America dearly in terms of its reputation and vast geopolitical interests in the Muslim world.
This is obviously what has prompted some American officials to remark that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a vital U.S. strategic interest.
In the meantime, it is equally obvious that in order for Washington to maintain Israel as the undisputed military master of the region, the U.S. would have to enlist the support and unhesitating backing of most if not all of the Arab world behind the current American crusade against Iran.
But in order to do the job successfully, the U.S. must at least appear to be carrying out genuine efforts to get the Arab-Israeli "peace process" moving, even if only seemingly.
In short, we are witnessing another affronting replay of the deceptive American tactics that we had witnessed in the early 1990s when then US Secretary of State James Baker convinced certain Arab states to back the war on Iraq in return for pressuring Israel to give up the spoils of the 1967 war.
Eventually, the mostly gullible Arab regimes obliged, and Israel remained quiet for a while, while Zionist efforts to arrogate more and more Arab land in the West Bank continued unabated.
Today, the same stupidity, same gullibility and probably same treachery as well are being played out as the American-funded PA is reacting nearly euphorically to manifestly false American promises about pressuring Israel to end its Nazi-like occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
First of all, it is highly unlikely that a U.S. administration that has been utterly unable to force Israel to stop demolishing even a single Arab home at the Sheikh Jarrah or Silwan neighborhoods will be able to force Israel to end the occupation and give up the spoils of the 1967 war.
Indeed, it is almost a foregone conclusion that for purely domestic American factors, the Obama administration will be neither able nor willing to do what it takes to end the chronic stalemate in occupied Palestine, namely forcing Israel to return to the pre-1967 borderlines.
The American political environment is simply too Zionized and too infested with and prostituted by virulent Zionist influence that a pro-active and genuine American effort to control the Zionist devil is simply unlikely and unexpected, at least in the foreseeable future.
Yes, we might very well hear some un-classical remarks from this or that American official about endangerment to American national interests in the Middle East and beyond as a result of Israeli policies. But these remarks, music to some naïve Arab ears, are utterly unlikely to lead to any substantive change in the basic American embrace of Israeli Nazism.
The US realizes too well that the Palestinian issue is not and won't soon be a first-degree preoccupation for most if not all tyrannical Arab regimes whose ultimate strategic goal is to remain in power for as long as possible. Just look how Mubarak, the emperor of Egypt, is striving to please the Americans, even at the expense of impoverishing, humiliating and even murdering his own people.
And since the US is the ultimate "power broker" in the region, at least as far as these corrupt and decadent despots are concerned, the US is likely to continue pursuing the same whoring policy, namely keep the regimes in power in return for getting them to pay little or no attention to what Israel is doing to Palestine and its people.
Now, it is not only the hypocritical Arabs that are harrowing after the American mirage, the increasingly disconcerted PA is also jumping out of its skin to laude the disingenuous American efforts as if Obama were ushering the Second Advent of Christ.
I think the PA is being deceived and tricked. First of all, the eyes of the U.S. are being focused on Iran, not the Palestinian issue which is only being used to isolate Iran by depriving it of a credible "propaganda asset" or "red herring" that help divert attention from the Iranian nuclear program, as the Americans seem to think.
Yes, Iran , and nothing else, is the driving and main motive behind accelerated U.S. efforts to woo states such as Syria and also to induce false euphoria in occupied Palestine similar to that which was fostered prior and after the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 when frustrated but utterly gullible Palestinian rabbles were duped to break their own olive trees into shreds in order to hoist olive branches on the hoods of Israeli military jeeps and armored vehicles that didn't hesitate to shoot them.!!
Today, some Palestinians are acting very much like a whore during the Holy Month of Ramadan, as the adage goes. They are so desperate that they want to see a state, even, a deformed or hollow one, established and recognized by the West as if such a brat would finally come up with a magical solution for all Palestinian ills.
The Obama administration reportedly has privately promised PA leader Mahmoud Abbas a state within two years. Well, this joke reminds me of a Quranic verse about Satan and his false promises. "Like Satan when he said to man: Disbelieve, but when man disbelieved, Satan said: I am surely clear of you; surely I fear God, the Lord of the worlds" (suratul Hashr-59-16).
How many times do we have to remind ourselves of the utter worthlessness of American pledges and promises?
They promised to protect our people in Lebanon, following the withdrawal of PLO forces from there in 1982, and the result was a genocidal slaughterhouse for our helpless refugees in Sabra and Shatila, at the hands of the Nazis of our time, the very people who continue to cry "Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, holocaust, gas chambers, suicide bombing" at any gesture of dissatisfaction directed at Israel while indulging themselves in actions befitting the Gestapo, SS and the Wehrmacht.
George W. Bush, the former Fuhrer of Washington, promised us a state in 2005 and 2006, but his promises eventually landed in the dustbin of history. This is the man who invaded, occupied and destroyed two Muslim countries and killed, or caused the death, of millions of innocent people because "God told me to do it."
And then came the hapless "roadmap" or more correctly "lie-map" which promised us a breakthrough. However, instead of ending the occupation, the roadmap saw a phenomenal expansion of Jewish-only settlements on the very land that is meant to be home for a future Palestinian state.
And now we are being affronted with another scheme, another deception, and another lie while our leaders are mistaking their gullibility and stupidity for statesmanship and brinkmanship.
Well, has it not occurred to them that the thoroughly savaged Palestinians won't accept anything less than real freedom after all these years of brutalization, humiliation and homelessness?
Has it not occurred to them that the state being promised by Hillary Clinton is actually a whore of a state, a brat as deformed as the international order that allows Israel commit every conceivable crime under the sun with impunity thanks to American protection?
Well, let me be clear. The "state" we are being offered is a state that is not worth the name; it is a state without the bulk of Jerusalem, without the repatriation of the refugees, but with most of these satanic settlements and settlers remaining in place, a perpetual thorn in our side.
It is a state that would be made up of territorially discontinuous cantons whereby traveling from one canton to the other would have to be okayed by the ultimate master, Israel.
It is a state that has no real sovereignty or authority and certainly not a modicum of dignity. It is a state that would perpetuate and even consolidate the Israeli occupation and domination of our land and our lives.
For God's sake, we decline to accept such a state. History after all shall not expire upon the end of the Obama administration's term in office. And the Palestinians, who have survived despite history and kept up the struggle for decades, can still go on and on and on.
We shall not commit adultery with our just cause just to please and appease some immoral politicians in Washington.
We never will.
tags: Palestinians / PA / Palestinian National Cause / Muslim World / American Officials
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What is an EIN and why is it Required?
29 Feb What is an EIN and why is it Required?
An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number. It is used to identify a business entity.
An EIN is required for all US businesses because the US Customs Authority requires it. Failure to provide the EIN, risks having an order delayed by the US Customs Authority.


Moscow, November 7, Interfax - Unknown individuals set fire to the Church of Cyril and Methodius of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Pavlograd, Dnipro Region of Ukraine, on Monday.
The incident occurred at 2:00 a.m. The people threw three 'Molotov cocktails' inside the building, the press service for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said.
The choir gallery with divine service books burned down fully and considerable damage was done to the central part of the church, the decorations, icons, windows and the heating system.
However, the altar, which was hit by one of the 'Molotov cocktails', was not damaged because the propellant had spilled out of the bottle, the report said.


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Should cops provide first aid to people they shoot?
by Maya Dukmasova October 7, 2016 August 18, 2021
A 1948 Chicago Police Department first-aid training Credit: Ed Smith/Sun-Times
During last Friday's City Council finance committee meeting, Alderman Ed Burke read aloud from a recent Reader investigation into the Chicago Police Department's secret civil asset forfeiture budget. The department spends the funds on routine expenditures like cell phone bills, but also on controversial surveillance equipment; Burke argued the money could instead be used to pay for quick-clotting gauze. Officers shot in the line of duty could thus care for their own wounds before paramedics arrived. Burke did not, however, call for the gauze to be given to ordinary citizens shot by cops.
Although all Chicago police officers receive basic first aid training at the police academy, a course for trauma care skills is voluntary, and officers must pay for it themselves. About 1,000 of CPD's 12,000 officers are currently certified through this Law Enforcement Medical and Rescue Training course, and carry first aid kits with tourniquets and other tools for traumatic injuries. And while efforts to train and equip all officers for first aid trauma care are underway in Chicago and elsewhere, CPD doesn't require officers to offer medical assistance to citizens—a reflection of police department policies nationwide.
But the notion that cops should, perhaps, be called upon to provide potentially life-saving first aid care to the people they shoot has intensified with each successive video showing a police-shooting victim bleeding to death before paramedics arrive. And while Chicago officers and their union say this isn't the responsibility of police, some medical professionals and the families of victims are calling on cops to reconsider their role.
The debate was first sparked in Chicago by the death of Marlon Horton, a 28-year-old man fatally shot by off-duty officer Kenneth Walker outside a west-side Chicago Housing Authority building in September 2013. Walker worked as a security guard at the site; Horton had been unarmed.
Security camera footage captured an argument between Horton and two security guards, as well as the aftermath of the shooting. Immediately after falling to the ground, Horton can be seen writhing on his belly, and then flipping on his back. A large blood stain becomes visible on his chest, as blood pools all over the pavement. The video also appears to show Walker and a second security officer, Shaquila Moore, walking around Horton's body and placing phone calls after he'd been shot.
Moore appears to pick up and drink from a cup she had placed on the ground. Neither Walker, nor Moore, nor any of the at least four other officers who showed up at the scene within the first five minutes of the shooting appear to give any first aid to Horton. It took paramedics seven minutes to arrive.
Horton's family sued CPD and the city in federal court a few weeks after his death. The Horton family's lawyer, Jeffrey Granich, says audio from the 911 call placed by Moore revealed that the dispatcher had instructed Moore to apply pressure to Horton's wound, but she did not.
"She bends down next to the body and picks up her coffee cup and begins to finish drinking her coffee while he bleeds to death and dies," Granich says in an interview. "The absolute lack of any type of human care or concern exhibited in this video shocks the conscience."
The lawsuit is still pending, but Granich says that both Moore and Walker have testified that they had first aid training.
Horton's case got renewed local media attention after the Laquan McDonald video showed cops at the scene failing to offer aid to the bleeding victim, shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke, and again after the release of the police body cam footage of the shooting of Paul O'Neal, which captured dozens of officers milling about as O'Neal lay face-down on the pavement, handcuffed and bleeding from a wound in his back. O'Neal received no first aid until paramedics arrived.
Stories of Chicago cops providing first aid to shooting victims do crop up from time to time, and are celebrated by the department as examples of officers' bravery. Most recently, an officer used his quick-clotting gauze to stem the bleeding of a man who had been shot in the chest in South Chicago.
But these stories appear to be the one-off acts of good samaritans, rather than reflections of department policy.
"We are required to render aid, which could be just calling the fire department," says CPD sergeant Bob Kane of the department's press office. "If the officer feels that they know what they're doing then they can, but they're not required to put hands on and try to stop someone's wound."
In addition, Dean Angelo Sr., president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the police union, has protested the idea that cops should be required to give first aid.
"Our officers are trained to call for paramedics," Angelo said at a press conference in December 2015. "They're not trained in first aid. They're not there to supply CPR, or to stop the flow of blood." Angelo didn't respond to a Reader inquiry about whether the FOP's position has changed since then.
But following the September release of the police shooting video that showed Tulsa-resident Terence Crutcher bleeding for two and a half minutes before officers begin to render any aid, national media has scrutinized the status quo. Medical professionals are also stepping forward to argue that cops should offer first aid, especially to the people they themselves shoot.
"If we are going to give our police officers guns," writes Farzon A. Nahvi, a New York City emergency medical physician in a recent New York Times op-ed, "officers must be properly trained to deal with the consequences of firing them."
Gary Merlotti, a trauma surgeon at Mr. Sinai Hospital in Chicago, says that stopping a victim's bleeding is paramount before he or she arrives at a trauma center.
"Should the police be trained in first aid? Absolutely. Should they apply it to trauma victims? Absolutely," he says.
A 2012 Northwestern University study also highlighted the importance of timely trauma care. The study found that people living in Chicago's "trauma deserts"—south-side areas without a Level 1 adult trauma center within a five-mile radius—were more likely to die of gunshot wounds. The findings gave powerful ammunition to the movement for a new trauma center at the University of Chicago.
Community groups had been fighting for the trauma center for years; it could take a similar movement to see changes made to the first aid policies of CPD and other departments.
"I think it's time that we call for a national, unified policy on, if you [as an officer] are the person that causes harm, you have a duty to render aid," Granich says.
Ironically, the debate about whether cops should be offering such care to citizens is intensifying just as the department itself is calling attention to the importance of emergency trauma care.
At Friday's City Council hearing, Brian Berkowitz, an instructor from CPD's education and training division, pointed out that the first few minutes after an officer is shot are crucial for his or her survival.
"We can bleed out and die in as little as two-to-four minutes," he said of officers shot in the line of duty. "We can lose consciousness in as little as 60 seconds. But our average response time for an ambulance can be six minutes."
Tagged: Brian Berkowitz, CHA, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Police Department, City Council, CPD, Dean Angelo Sr., Ed Burke, emergency medical care, first aid, FOP, Fraternal Order of Police, Jeffrey Granich, Laquan McDonald, Marlon Horton, paramedics, Paul O'Neal, police shooting, police shooting video, police violence, Terence Crutcher, trauma care, trauma center, trauma desert, Vol. 46 No. 2


Summer's here, and just about everyone is in vacation-planning mode. But figuring out where to go, and what to do once you get there, can be as overwhelming as it is exciting.
Some campers are doubtless headed for life-changing, adrenaline-pumping journeys, maybe even including daring outdoor ventures like scuba diving or mountain climbing.
But for others, summer vacation might serve better as an opportunity to slow down a bit — which, yes, you can do even while speeding down the highway. It all comes down to where your head is at (and where you're headed) on your RV journey.
We're all about finding the best adventures and having tons of fun on the road — but sometimes, an easy-going, relaxing road trip is exactly what the doctor ordered.
So if you're looking for more chill than thrill, here are some of the best relaxing vacation spots in the U.S. to consider.
Looking for relaxing beach vacations that don't involve a lengthy (read: stressful) drive to an ocean coast?
Michigan's Traverse City offers one of the most accessible relaxing getaways for midwesterners — and yes, lake beaches totally count. In fact, Country Living named Traverse City the most charming beach town in America. Take that, all of Florida and New England!
Where to stay: Traverse Bay RV Resort offers easy access to everything this beautiful part of the state has to offer — and has a nearly-perfect five-star Google rating.
Click here to see RVshare rentals in Traverse City, Michigan.
Any place can be relaxing if you approach in the right way — but the following destinations offer time-proven family fun.
Think "affordable, relaxing spa vacations" is an oxymoron?
For the perfect end to your indulgent day of natural spa soaking, watch as one of Wyoming's largest herds of bison meander around the landscape. If you're an early riser, you might even catch the 8:30 a.m. supplemental feeding.
Where to stay: Although the park is day use only, there's a great developed campground nearby called Eagle RV Park — not to mention all the BLM land and wilderness out there in wide-open Wyoming.
Click here to see RVshare rentals in Thermopolis, Wyoming.
But if it were, it would probably feature a picture of Sedona. Temperate climate just about year-round, world-class hiking opportunities, a burgeoning food and beverage scene — and did we mention its numerous spas are frequently named some of the best in the country?
Where to stay: There are almost too many RV parks in Sedona to count, so you've got your pick of the litter. But if you're looking for something a little bit out of the box, consider Camp Avalon, which offers "spiritual activities" like drumming circles and vision quests along with full-hookup camping.
Click here to see RVshare rentals in Sedona, Arizona.
Looking for a little peace and quiet — and maybe even some romance? Don't miss these peaceful destinations.
If you're looking for relaxing vacation spots where the cell signal's thin but the views are anything but, look no further than western South Dakota. And trust me, there's so much more to it than Mount Rushmore — not that you should miss a visit!
Cruise around Custer State Park to see ranges where the deer and the antelope really do play, not to mention the roaming herds of buffalo. And don't forget a trip down Needles Highway, easily one of the most scenic 40-mile stretches of road in America.
Where to stay: There are a number of affordably-priced, RV-accessible campgrounds inside Custer State Park itself, but you can also look into the resort-style campgrounds in the area, including several KOAs.
Click here to see RVshare rentals in Custer, South Dakota.
What California destination combines amazing wine tasting, delicious seafood eating, and one of the most famous dog beaches in the entire U.S.?
If you guessed this sweet-sounding destination, congratulations: your prize is two-fold. Firstly, of course, you get the satisfaction of guessing correctly; secondly, if you visit, you'll soon learn first-hand why this little seaside burg is so special. It's a shining enough gem to draw the likes of Clint Eastwood north of Los Angeles — heck, he even went on to become its mayor for a spell. You can still visit his restaurant while you're in town!
Psst: If you're after relaxing vacations for couples, consider this our recommendation. Its hard to do better than stunning ocean views, adorable boutiques, and premium wineries when it comes to setting the mood.
Where to stay: Marina Dunes is a touch north of Carmel proper, but it's just about as close to oceanfront camping as you can get.
Yes, we may be biased, but we're pretty convinced that traveling in an RV rental is one of the best ways to up the chill factor of any road trip you might take. After all, it's pretty relaxing to not have to worry about hauling all your stuff into a new hotel room every night!
No matter what corner of the country you're starting from (or headed towards), there's an RVshare rental in your area that'll meet your family's camping needs and make your adventure as stress-free as humanly possible.
In fact, you'll really only have one thing to worry about: where to next?


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LUNA SEA to release new album co-produced by Steve…
Claire	 Jun 6, 2019 0
[Interview]Japanese Rocker HYDE Talks New Songs and Ambition…
Claire	 May 16, 2019 0
HYDE New Album 'ANTI' Out Worldwide — You Don't…
Claire	 May 7, 2019 0
Idol J-POP J-Rock
MIYAVI Cast As Byakuya Kuchiki in Live-Action Movie BLEACH
Claire	 Mar 10, 2018 0
Japanese guitarist MIYAVI has surely been firing up the acting engine these years with the controversial character in Oscar nominated Unbroken and some short appearances in blockbusters like Kong: Skull Land. Now, he will return to the film…
Tokyo Band DYGL To Take New Single "Bad Kicks" To SXSW
Claire	 Feb 28, 2018 0
DYGL's new single "Bad Kicks" has proved to us again that this band is better built than anyone else within this Japanese indie rock generation, and may very well fall short of finding contenders domestically in the next three years. I knew…
Tokyo Electropop Band Yahyel To Release 2nd Studio Album "Human"
Tokyo indiepop band Yahyel have recently divulged the release of their second album "Human". The new album will be out on March 7th, right before their ambitious trip to the U.S. festival SXSW, which is followed by a LIQUIDROOM…
FLOW Announces Anime Theme Song World Tour to Celebrate 15th Anniversary
Claire	 Feb 7, 2018 0
Rock band, FLOW, announced their Latin American tour titled FLOW 15th Anniversary TOUR 2018 "Anime-Shibari"—Latin America Tour—as part of their world tour. The tour will feature all 21 anime theme songs by FLOW. The Latin America Tour…
Psychedelic Band Kikagaku Moyo Announce Spring North America Tour
Claire	 Dec 18, 2017 0
Tokyo psychedelic band "Kikagaku Moyo" just announced their next North America tour plan. Having released an EP "Stone Garden" and supported a handful of bands of similar style such as Pond and King Gizzard & The…
SILENT SIREN Live Report – December 1
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Photo credit by SILENT SIREN On December 1, SILENT SIREN, a 4-piece all-girl band consisting of Su (Sumire Yoshida on vocals and guitar), Hinachu (Hinako Umemura on drums), Ainyan (Aina Yamauchi on bass), and Yukarun…
Live Report: Boris "Dear"/25th Anniversary Tour @ Warsaw, NYC
Claire	 Nov 8, 2017 1
At the very beginning of November, New York City has just embraced another Japanese band that are almost better-known here than where they come from. Despite their rather frequent visits to America, the discussion about the show both online…
MIYAVI To Release 2nd Collaboration Album with HYDE, Masato from Coldrain and More
Claire	 Oct 18, 2017 1
The legendary guitar artist MIYAVI is due to release a 2nd collaboration album "SAMURAI SESSIONS vol.2" on Nov 8, 2017 with digital version and 2 physical formats (Limited edition with DVD/ Standard CD only). MIYAVI has been keeping himself…
Legendary Rock'n'Roll Duo VAMPS To Hit Americas Again
Claire	 Aug 31, 2017 0
That's right. These Japanese rockstars are coming back to America again with their new album, and we will never get tired of them. A number of dates on the west coast and South America have been announced and the tickets will soon be…
J-POPSUMMIT 2017
KKS Reiko	 Jul 14, 2017 1
J-POPSUMMIT 2017 ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE ARTISTS AND OTHER KINETIC LIVE PERFORMERS The San Francisco Bay Area's Premiere Japanese Pop Culture Event Presents Anison Singer May'n, Kendama Performers Zoomadanke, Vogue-Inspired…
Esprit D'Air announce huge UK tour!
Claire	 Jun 22, 2017 0
Esprit D'Air have just announced their huge UK tour! This tour is to celebrate the release of their upcoming album, Constellations due to be released digitally on 30 June and will hit the shelves of retail stores a week after. 2018…
Tomoya of One Ok Rock Announces Marriage
Tomoya Kanki, the drummer of One Ok Rock has just announced his marriage to his fans. This is the second marriage announcement from this band within this year. Gratifying for most of his fans while maybe heartbreaking for some of his…
ONE OK ROCK ANNOUNCE "AMBITIONS U.S. TOUR 2017"
Fueled By Ramen recording group ONE OK ROCK has announced details of a massive North American headline tour. The "AMBITIONS U.S. TOUR 2017," which will also feature a series of stops throughout Canada, is set to kick off July 6th at Las…
Hotei Euro Tour 2017!
KKS Reiko	 Apr 12, 2017 0
The Japanese Rock Star, Tomoyasu Hotei is touring in Europe now. He will be playing in Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, including cities where he hasn't visited yet. Message from Hotei: You can not move a thousand…
[LIVE REPORT] 25th L'Anniversary LIVE (Tokyo Dome, 2017.04.09)
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Photos: Hideaki Imamoto, Takayuki Okada, Toshikazu Oguruma, Chie Kato, Kazuko Tanaka On April 9, 2017,L'Arc-en-Ciel held their 25th anniversary show L'Arc-en-Ciel 25th L'Anniversary LIVE at Tokyo Dome. Like the previous day, the…
"Legend, Katsuhiro Otomo New Projects Announcement" Panel [Recap]
ANIME EXPO 2019 THRILLS FANS OF JAPANESE POP CULTURE DURING FOUR-DAY SHOW IN LOS ANGELES
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Lozari is een plaats in de gemeente Buje in de Kroatische provincie Istrië. De plaats telt 19 inwoners (2001).

Plaats in Istrië


It's such a delight to hear from clients for whom our couture designs and materials serve as sources of inspiration and pleasure! This morning, Sarah discovered in her mailbox an email from one such client, Lauren, who wrote: "Ok, I had to share. I had my cake lady design the cake based upon that pretty paper you used in my invitations. The final cake is going to have the scroll work in gold." Lauren even attached a photo of the gorgeous, four-tiered cake, which is shown below. Lauren chose Fluffy Thoughts Bakery in McLean, Virginia to make her cake.


The holiday season is full of potlucks and social events. Looking to make something super easy, but still look like a culinary mastermind? Try these pear bacon bites on for size from The Clothes Makes the Girl.
1. Preheat oven to 375F. Cover a large, rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil.
2. Cut bacon strips into 1-inch pieces and place on the baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, or until just crisp. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the bacon to a plate lined with paper towels to drain excess fat.
3. Cut each pear into 1/2-inch slices, then into 1-inch pieces. Lay them out on a cutting board and sprinkle VERY lightly with paprika, cinnamon, and salt. So pretty!
4. Top each piece of pear with a square of bacon and spear with a toothpick. Pop into your mouth. Enjoy.
NOTE: I eat bacon only on special occasions, but the pear+salt+cinnamon+paprika is 100% approved for anytime eating, and it is amazingly good. Try it! For real.


Sire Quantum has grown into a progenitor that has more than proved himself. From a relatively small number of offspring he produced successful GP showjumping horses such as Quintero la Silla, Quality Time, Marengo and Quin Chin. Quantum is here united with a granddaughter of Farn which makes that the celebrated mare Dorette occurs twice in Quanta's pedigree. Dam Freule herself was a national showjumping horse under Pieter Kersten and she produced by three different stallions four international showjumping horses; Lord Adelheid (Ramiro Z) ridden by Bert-Jan van de Pol, Kyra Adelheid (Aram) ridden by Bart Bles, Quartz Adelheid Z (Quality Touch Z) ridden by Gregory Wathelet and Quartz II Adelheid Z (Quality Touch Z) ridden by Tim Rieskamp-Goedeking.


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Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, November 15 Edition
Click here to see all of the current Best Fiction for Young Adults nominees along with more information about the list and past years' selections.
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Tor Teen / Macmillan
Clementine's first time working at the welcome house leads to a murder. Knowing what would be in store her older sister, Aster, along with three other girls decide to make their escape which might be certain death because all of the girls who work in welcome houses are branded and used for only one thing. Escape is not an option. As they band together to journey out of Arketta, a treacherous road lies ahead.
Continue reading Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, November 15 Edition
Booklist: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Young Adult Fiction
In February 2016, the YALSA Hub published a booklist, Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction, as a response to teens wanting to see this kind of representation in books. It was a hard list to create as there were very few books at the time with any mention of asexuality or aromanticism, and most of the representation in the books listed is minimal at best. In that list, most representation was of side characters, or the word asexual was never explicitly mentioned. Over the past three years, some exciting books for teens have been published that center the Ace/Aro experience.
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#BFYA2019 Nominees Round Up, April 27 Edition
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House
Living in the 125th Street neighborhood of Harlem, Lolly's life is populated by a vibrantly drawn, diverse cast of characters: his ma and her girlfriend Yvonne, his best friend Vega, the neighborhood kids at the community center where he attends after-school, and the young thugs who populate his neighborhood, pressuring him to join up in the wake of his older brother Jermaine's gang-related death. Amidst these pressures and his still-raw grief at Jermaine's death, Lolly finds solace in building fantastical, epic cityscapes out of the Lego bricks Yvonne brings home from her job as a security guard at a toy store. When his outsized buildings and imagination outgrow his apartment, community center director Mr. Ali lets him expand into the basement of the rec center. There, his Lego building attracts the attention of the other kids and especially Big Rose, a bullied girl with a prickly manner and a big heart, who may be on the autism spectrum but has no interest in being labeled autistic. Lolly and Big Rose form a tentative but meaningful bond based on mutual respect, even as he feels Vega withdrawing from him towards the pull of the streets.
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Hermes Cyprus to build 5-star hotel at Larnaca airport
THE CONFESSION by a Turkish actor that he killed almost a dozen Greek Cypriots in 1974, including an unarmed 19-year-old prisoner of war, must be investigated by an independent body, the Attorney-general said yesterday.
The fact that Attila Olgac had since retracted his shocking statement must also be examined, said Petros Clerides. Olgac retracted his initial statement, saying he confused killing people in real life with a script he was working on for a war film.
The AG said that even if the confession proved to be a fabrication it could not go unpunished as it had been witnessed by and had distressed so many people in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey.
"If we assume, and I don't believe it, that he confused reality with a script, then this person still can't go unpunished after all the upset he's caused," Clerides said.
The AG said an independent body had to investigate whether the confession was fact or fiction.
"If, as it is very likely, he was telling the truth, then it is truly shocking testimony that can be used in various ways," he said.
He said the issue needed serious consideration by the Committee for Missing Persons or another UN recommended body.
"Or a special committee could be appointed to investigate to get the truth," he said.
Clerides also rubbished Olgac's excuse that he had confused the killings with a war film. The actor's initial confession was made on a Turkish talk show on Thursday morning. His retraction came just over 24 hours later following a huge public and political outcry.
"In my opinion his excuse is nonsense. I don't see how after 35 years someone can confuse reality with imagination," said Clerides.
However it was still premature to be talking about issuing international arrest warrants, he said. Past efforts to do this had already failed on a practical level and therefore the issue had to be thoroughly and methodically examined at a "very high government level" for there to be any positive outcome.
Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said the issue was not that prisoners had been murdered but how the testimony could be used to support evidence that Turkey had violated Geneva Convention treaties during 1974 and to pressurise her into complying with European Court of Human Rights rulings to fully co-operate in shedding light on the issue of the missing.
"This is something Turkey has not done so far," said Stefanou.
The story was also given extensive media coverage in Turkey, with legal experts warning the actor could be charged with war crimes and face arrest outside Turkey.
Greece and Cyprus might use the information to pressurize Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights to co-operate on the issue of the missing, the papers said, and according to Milliyet the revelation might also serve to harm Turkish Cypriots.
Only an article in Hurriyet gave some weight to Olgac's retraction. The paper quoted the former general manager of the Turkish Cypriot state theater who said he had known Olgac in 1974 and that none of what he'd confessed to on live television was true. According to him, the actor had been terrified of warfare and his family had contacted the theater manager asking for his intervention with the Turkish army in Cyprus, which he did. He said Olgac was transferred to the kitchens as a cook and was never even given a gun. In August 1974 the actor was sent to Cyprus for a period of 20 days and then sent home, he claimed.
On Thursday Olgac confessed to shooting an unarmed, handcuffed 19-year-old POW in the forehead after his Turkish army commander ordered the killing. The teenager had apparently refused to answer the commander's questions and had spat in Olgac's face. His murder was his punishment. Olgac said he had also killed nine other Greek Cypriots during post-war skirmishes between both sides.
By Alexia Saoulli, Cyprus Mail, January 25, 2009
Euro and Cyprus
Kazoulis to handle Cyprus transport of 20 mln dollars equipment for MTN


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Spaghetti Blockchain
Mika Rottenberg
November 12, 2020–ongoing
MOCA is working with Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg to present three of her most recent film installations along with a number of sculptural works. This will be the first time that Rottenberg's work is exhibited in Toronto. MOCA partnered with the New Museum, NYC back in 2017, to co-commission Rottenberg's latest work, Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019. The exhibition at MOCA will feature this inspiring work alongside installations No Nose Knows, 2015 and Cosmic Generator, 2017.
The video Spaghetti Blockchain brings together seemingly irreconcilable worlds—Tuvan throat singers, filmed on the steppes of Siberia and Mongolia; surreal interiors of the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva; the mechanical harvesting of a massive potato farm; ASMR-video-style scenarios with tingly overdubs of jiggling and sizzling—and places them in a kind of superfluous factory of her devising, whose primary product seems to be imagery that's simultaneously pleasurable and queasily troubling.
Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world. The overall exhibition design is being planned with Rottenberg, who is developing her spatial practice to include a sustainable angle using unfinished/reusable materials.
Rottenberg has exhibited extensively internationally and has recently had solo exhibitions at the Sprengel Museum Hannover; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In 2019 her work was included in the 16th Istanbul Biennial and the same year she was awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize, a biennial award that recognizes artists who have made a significant contribution to contemporary art.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal where it will be on view in 2021.
The exhibition is supported by Artis's Exhibition Grants Program.
Spotlights: Mika Rottenberg
Mika Rottenberg, Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019. Still from single-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
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Earnings Outlook: Palo Alto Networks has transformed itself with more than $1 billion in acquisitions
Palo Alto Networks Inc. has undergone two major management shifts and announced five acquisitions in the past year, transforming the security-software company as its industry responds to an ever-shifting landscape.
Palo Alto PANW, +1.54% announced last week it is acquiring Demisto for $560 million, its fifth acquisition of the past 12 months. Demisto is a so-called SOAR — or security orchestration, automation and response — company that uses machine learning to aid in automating cybersecurity functions.
Palo Alto announced it was buying cloud-threat defense company RedLock for $173 million in cash in October, a $100 million acquisition of Israel-based endpoint detection and response company Secdo in April, a $300 million acquisition of public-cloud infrastructure security company Evident.io a month before that, and a $105 million deal in February 2018 for LightCyber, a company specializing in so-called "Behavioral Attack Detection solutions" that pick up on attacks that slip past more traditional security controls.


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Roxy Ehrig
Host of East Asian Pop-Rock Tunes
Sunday 2-3pm
Tuesday 9-10am
Host of Roxy's Rice Bowl.
by James Moore
Fairfield Youth Advocacy, Inc. is exploring the possibility of transferring the LPFM license (formerly KRUU-LP 100.1 FM) to a local community organization for the purpose of creating a community radio station. Interested organizations should respond with a Letter of Interest (should be less than a page!) to fyafairfield@gmail.com with the following information:
Organization overview and mission
List and bios of board members
Overview of current programs within the community
Vision of the community radio station they would implement should they receive the LPFM
Contact person and phone/email for follow-up questions
The Fairfield Youth Advocacy, Inc. board will receive LOIs until the end of March 2018, after which a decision will be made regarding whether to pursue a transfer of the license.
NOTE: Should a transfer be pursued, FYA will provide the transmitter, cabling and antenna only, and not the tower, real estate and other studio equipment. If the proposing organization is interested in these assets, please note the same on the Letter of Interest and provide evidence of financial capability to acquire the station building and assets.
to air is human; to broadcast divine
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Don't forget, the archives are still up. Help yourself to over a decade of remarkable programming!
Love it is
On Ultra Lounge
by Rich Sims
It's been a Thrill playing the best Bachelor & Bachelorette Pad music and Crime Jazz on Ultra Lounge for 11 1/2 years and it now comes to a sad but understandable close today on KRUU.
Yep, I thank all of you for listening and James Moore for steering this great music and talk show ship. I also thank all those adventurous young composers in the '50's and '60's who gave us their noir-ish "cloak and dagger themes and incidental music mixed be-bop and big band with west coast cool and latin jazz" creating the ultimate soundtrack for high living. A great laid back relaxing time that was revived in the '90's to a new generation of lounge lizards and remains as hot and steamy to this day.
Will see you around sometime, somewhere. Remember, Stay Well and Live It Up!
Bachelor Pad Music
Rich Sims's blog
On Listening to the Movies
How do you condense 60 years of spectacular Film Music into an hour show?! I'll try by highlighting some of my favorite composers and their scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood to contemporary whose music has been acclaimed and esteemed as enduring gems in the movie industry.
Bernard Herrmann; Danny Elfman; Jerry Goldsmith; Miklos Rozsa; James Horner; Thomas Newman; Maurice Jarre; Howard Shore; Alexandre Desplat; Ennio Morricone; Elmer Bernstein; Nino Rota; Michael Ciacchino; John Barry; Alex North; Hans Zimmer and Dario Marianelli are a handful of composers who have enriched the world with adventurous and sublime music.
Thanks for listening all these years as we come to a close here at KRUU. If my film music shows have enriched your movie going experiences than my work has succeeded. Stay in Touch!
It's only fitting to bid farewell to the KRUU era with my former co-host Kathy DuBois and me spending an hour talking about our favorite subject-food.
Thanks to KRUU and everyone associated with the station for providing the platform for my/our soapbox. We hope you enjoyed the show.
NOTE: The LIVE Great Taste shows will continue at Green Building Supply the first Tuesday of every month. Don't miss out on the fun. The next show is Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm.
Also, Fairfield Media Center (FMC) will host the ongoing Great Taste weekly show. Watch for new shows beginning in April on the Great Taste page of the FMC website (www.fairfieldmediacenter.com).
On The Studio
by Cheryl Fusco Johnson
Farewell, local community radio! Since its launch date, September 30, 2006, KRUU-LP 100.1FM has fullfilled its mission 24 hours each day. KRUU's encouraged creativity, dialogue, and community involvement by being an open, inclusive, and diverse forum for music, creative expression, and information and entertainment via nearly exclusively locally-created programming.
Many dear souls contributed to KRUU's success, chief among them is James Moore, the heart of the station. During this final episode of The Studio, KRUU's dedicated and creative station manager will share a behind-the-scenes look at true grassroots community radio. Thanks, James!
grassroots community radio
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On Obvious World
by mattahearn
We're tag-teaming jam for jam + giving thanks
Giving thanks for all the LOVE ~ stay happie
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by Ken Mottet
And that's the name of that tune.
Farewell and Amen
Ken Mottet's blog
On Centripetal Sounds: The Rainbow Rider
by garygarles
Pictured: Your G Man, alias Cool Breeze, waving goodbye just before exiting the studio Thursday and milling with the crowd outside, estimated at nine thousand. Keep in touch by emailing me centripetalsounds@gmail.com. As to the matter at hand, this is #369. Add that to the five hundred and eighty three shows I did at the 2 O'Clock hour on Thursdays, and you get 952 total. This show has music by Dixie Pistols, probably the band you have not heard before, and also off the beaten track songs by Lanterna, Dies Irae, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Fink, and Repeated Viewing. Something for everyone, as usual. Check the playlist as it happens Saturday morning- or Monday morning, or both, as the case may be. I am sad that the passing of KRUU is happening, and I am happy that I got to be a part of the James Moore Fan Club, because he was the man for all these years as station manager and compadre extraordinaire. He is a true inspiration.
Tunage
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On Filmosophers'
by Bruce Miller
I've been feeling deeply melancholy this week, much of it to do with this being our final Filmosophers movie talk show, at least on KRUU, an extraordinary audio portal which I keep thinking will survive. I've been into radio all my life, starting hosting shows in 1972, and have truly experienced the best radio in my life listening to KRUU (highlighted by the satsang that is Writer's Voices, which continues KHOE).
Today we'll have Nandini & Rodney Charles on, a wonderful international family brought together by the Spiritual Regeneration Movement that brought us to Fairfield. Nandini from India, Rodney from Canada. When I saw Viceroy's House, about the transition of British India to independence, it felt like an under appreciated film in our community that has deep spiritual ties to that beloved country. I knew Nandini would be able to help us appreciate this film and asked them to join us. They also recently saw Things To Come with Isabelle Huppert, one of my fave films of the year. We anticipate their reviews.
We'll fit that in with new releases, what we saw and our final - for now anyway - thoughts on the Filmosophers with Chris Busch & Bruce Miller , "where we give our filmosophy of the movies and have filmosophical discussions."
"I am That. Thou art That. All this is That. And That is all there is..." - The Movie
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