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Re: DEBATE between Roberto Muehlenkamp and Friedrich Paul Be
Postby blake121666 » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:18 am)
I thought the debate was very confused and would surely confuse someone not particularly knowledgeable with the issues. Roberto actually had a few "wins" in my opinion:
1. Fritz peppered ad hominems throughout his arguments ("people such as Roberto should think how I think" - and things like that).
2. Making an argument such as "Germans would have used producer gas and not engine exhaust or Zyklon-B" isn't particularly convincing w/o some fleshing out of the position - which wasn't satisfactorily done by Fritz. Although Fritz did make a good point about the slow-release properties of Zyklon-B; which I'd think that even someone very green to the issue might investigate this claim and its implications.
3. Roberto gave more of a holistic type argument (albeit from either a delusional or mendacious perspective since his arguments are false on a thin investigation).
Here are suggestions for Fritz of what I think would make a more compelling position from him. I'm thinking of reaching people who only have a thin knowledge of the Holocaust.
1. Start off by defining the Holocaust: what it is and what it isn't and what you deny and don't deny.
2. Go over the audio of the debate and try to come up with the most succinct and straight-forward way to refute every one of Roberto's falsities. For instance, Roberto made claims that the AR camps could plausibly have stored 100s of thousands of bodies. Succinctly state the AR camp narrative (it's prima facie absurd as alleged w/o even having to analyse much).
3. Flesh out the red corpse issue you're so fond of. It's a good argument but I think it probably goes over the head of a green listener.
4. Don't be so adamant about your pet "producer gas" argument. You weren't as bad with this as you usually are. The main issue here is that the claimed gassing operations are foolishly inappropriate, not that you can think up a better way (although a quick mention of your producer gas wouldn't be bad). Zyklon-B is inappropriate because it needs to be heated and continues outgassing for many hours. Maybe even try to come up with a succinct summary of the prussian blue issues w.r.t. this. Engine exhaust is inappropriate because you don't need a whole complicated engine to produce CO which is trivially easy to do w/o an engine. No eyewitness mentioned red corpses (and in fact blue corpses were claimed) when the corpses would have been red had people died from CO. Roberto would trot out his mendacious make-it-up-as-you-go-along crap which you could use to make him look very bad on cross-examination.
I also would have liked more of a dialogue format to the debate rather than set speechifying. Rebuttals of points as they are made (in a civil way of course) would have been nice. W/o handling things this way I'm afraid that the debate was a confused jumbled mess.
Steven Willow
Postby Steven Willow » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:10 am)
blake121666 wrote: I thought the debate was very confused and would surely confuse someone not particularly knowledgeable with the issues. Roberto actually had a few "wins" in my opinion:
I agree with Blake121666 somewhat about bringing a broader view of the Holohoax than just "producer gas." For example, when Roberto Muehlenkamp went on and on about how cold war enemies like the US and Soviets would not have cooperated to create a hoax during the 60s, when West German courts were conducting their investigations, Mr Berg might have revealed exactly how the Hoax was carried out and detailed the forging of documents and the torturing of witnesses. He could have used this theme to show exactly how West German courts brutalised Kurt Franz and Franz Stangl to get them to testify about gassings that never happened. I think that these West German confessions are puzzling to the general public who are not aware that West Germany was under Zionist control. Some people even believed that these West German courts were leniant and that former Nazis spewed out testimony about gas chambers without even being pressured, so Mr Berg could have educated the public in this regard.
With that said, I totally disagree with Blake121666 about the unimportance of "producer gas." Mr Berg is the formost expert in the world on what types of fuel the Germans would not use for gas chambers. He made it clear that petrol was essential to the war effort and kept German soldiers warm and healthy during those horrible Russian winters, which producer gas would not have done.
Producer gas, Mr Berg proved, would have killed more jews in a shorter time span and would have not detracted from war aims. So why would so called genocidal Nazis have used ridiculous Diesel, or strategically crucial petrol? The answer, Mr Berg clearly presented. They would have used producer gas which was cheap and available. The fact that no eyewitnesses even mentioned producer gas one time is absolute proof that the Holocaust was a Hoax. No one else has argued this like Mr Berg, and we all owe him thanks for a job well done.
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Postby Friedrich Paul Berg » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:09 pm)
The actual radio debate between myself and Roberto Muehlenkamp is over. Now, the "debate over the debate" can begin. I appreciate everyone's comments here--complimentary and critical.
Although I had been debating Mr. Muehlenkamp on the internet many times over the last ten years, I was stunned by his gross ignorance as to just how desperate Germany was for liquid fuels for motor vehicles. In fact, Muehlenkamp insisted several times during the debate that in 1942 there was no shortage at all. WOW! Muehlenkamp was also totally unaware of the fact that Germany had made 85% of its liquid fuels synthetically from coal--and at enormous expense. He seemed quite certain that I had simply made up that fact and challenged me to cite the source. The source for the "85%" number is:
U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Oil Division Final Report, War Department, Washington, D.C., 1947, p. 1.
A link with the entire text of the important essay within the above reference is: http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsgensum.html . The first paragraph alone should convince almost anyone that Germany's fuel situation was truly deperate. The essay is entitled "An Empire built on Coal, Air and Water." That same section became the title for one of the subsections of my 2003 essay: "Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture--Absurd for Murder." http://www.nazigassings.com/dieselgaschamberc.html
From "An Empire built on Coal, Air and Water," we have the following description of Germany's dilemma after a brief description of the situation at the beginning of the war:
Germany never recovered from this precarious position, and throughout the war her oil stocks, particularly critical items like aviation and motor gasolines, were so tight that her whole military effort would have collapsed like a pricked balloon in three or four months had her oil supply been dried up.
The most foolish error made by Muehlenkamp was his insistence that the bright cherry RED coloring of the corpses from carbon monoxide poisoning could only be recognized by "trained medical doctors." Rubbish! The color is dramatic and can e-a-s-i-l-y be recognized by anyone who is not color blind. The evaluation of the color is another matter. An ordinary person might erroneously think a victim had spent too much time lying naked on a beach along the Vistula River—but they certainly would not have had any difficulty seeing the RED color. The absence of any mention or hint of such a dramatic feature regarding all supposed CO victims, hundreds of thousands supposedly, clearly shows that ALL of the "eyewitnesses" to alleged CO gassings at ARC camps simply lied. It is that simple! They lied about the most visually stunning feature which is used universally, especially by doctors and medical examiners, to instantly distinguish cyanide and CO-caused fatalities from nearly all other causes. The "eyewitness" testimony used to frame and execute countless Germans, even all of Germany in a sense, was m-a-n-u-f-a-c-t-u-r-e-d and rather clumsily by ignorant prosecutors in Poland and elsewhere. In other words, the mass-murder-by-gasoline-exhaust-theory is no more credible than the much older, but now abandoned, claim that diesel engines were used as the source of carbon monoxide for mass murder.
Does anyone really need a "trained medical doctor" to see the color in the image above?
The abandonment of the old diesel gas chamber theory, embraced by all holocaust scholars until about ten years ago, is of enormous significance. It means that for more than fifty years, minimum, the holocaust scholars did not even know what the most important murder weapon was for "the most thoroughly documented event in the entire history of the world." It is equivalent to a new Warren Commission admitting that one of the bullets which killed JFK hit the president's skull from the front as the Zapruder film shows—and blew out the back top of the president's skull. In other words, that the huge wound at the back of JFK's skull was an exit wound. That's why it was so huge. Jackie is clearly seen lunging to the back of the car trying to catch the skull fragment flying to the back of the car. Muehlenkamp might say: "OK, so the older Warren Commission got the direction wrong for one of the bullets—big deal!" It is a big deal! What it means is that JFK was murdered by two shooters and that there was, indeed, an elaborate conspiracy which murdered JFK—and then covered it up successfully afterward. Yes, children—hoaxes do occur especially when the stakes are high enough and when the hoaxers are as powerful as the victors were after WW2.
In general, Muehlenkamp's enthusiastic and unashamed reliance on courtroom testimony is reminiscent of the mindset used to convict witches and heretics just a few centuries ago. After all, why would anyone lie under oath, ever? The judges and prosecutors in the witchcraft trials were well-meaning credible people who tried, I am sure, to evaluate "eyewitness" testimony fairly as some of the courtroom transcripts seem to show—but they wore blinders to sustain their delusional, false reality. Today, with DNA evidence in the USA, more and more death row inmates are being set free and many convictions based on eyewitness testimony are being totally overturned. No doubt, it is hard to even imagine that anyone, especially if they are Jewish or Polish, would ever commit perjury—but, competent trial attorneys do know that it happens all the time, every day, everywhere—and that the liars generally get away with it. If one wants to find real devils, people like Muehlenkamp need only look at themselves in the mirror.
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The Holocaust story is a hoax because 1) no one was killed by the Nazis in gas chambers, 2) the total number of Jews who died in Nazi captivity is miniscule compared to what is alleged.
Postby Moderator » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:53 pm)
As a moderator I usually try to stay out of opinionated specifics, but the hell with it. We owe a debt of gratitude to legendary Revisionist Fritz Berg for taking apart the likes of Muehlenkanp, piece by piece.
Thank you Mr. Berg. Your work will not be forgotten, but remembered and revered.
Only lies need to be shielded from debate, truth welcomes it.
Postby Friedrich Paul Berg » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:37 pm)
Thank you, moderator, for those extremely kind words.
Postby neugierig » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:16 pm)
I finally had a chance to listen to most of the debate. Having debated Roberto Muehlenkamp for some ten years, I know that he has his stuff down pat. He also has a special talent to obfuscate, to present material as fact when in reality it is only his interpretation, faulty more often than not. Here is just one example: R.M. stated that investigations had taken place, referring to the Lukaszkiewicz (L) Treblinka investigations. He then claimed that L had found a 'grave', not so. Here is what L reported:
"The largest of the craters produced by explosions (numerous fragments attest to the fact that these explosions were set off by bombs), which is at maximum 6 meters deep and has a diameter of about 25 meters – its walls give recognizable evidence of the presence of a large quantity of ashes as well as human remains – was further excavated in order to discover the depth of the pit in this part of the camp…"
Aside from the bomb crater issue, this clearly says that they had just 'further excavated' a bomb crater. L later, in his final report submitted at the IMT as USSR-344 (and strangely never used), wrote: "During the work on the terrain, I found no mass graves,…", which R.M. interprets as meaning 'full' graves, one of his favorite ruses. And also, L never tells us where this bomb crater was located.
Having said that, I did not like the format, issues were left hanging. "The Holocaust" is just too big a subject; it has to be discussed in parts.
Mr. Berg did a commendable job, but I have to wonder if this turned any True Believers into doubters.
Postby Hektor » 7 years 3 weeks ago (Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:13 am)
neugierig wrote: I finally had a chance to listen to most of the debate. Having debated Roberto Muehlenkamp for some ten years, I know that he has his stuff down pat. He also has a special talent to obfuscate, to present material as fact when in reality it is only his interpretation, faulty more often than not. Here is just one example: R.M. stated that investigations had taken place, referring to the Lukaszkiewicz (L) Treblinka investigations. He then claimed that L had found a 'grave', not so. Here is what L reported:
Just listening to this at the moment. He comes over relatively calm and well-prepared. This will make him convincing to many people. That he's bending facts in his direction does however require some analysis. Basically he's stating some facts and then spins the whole story in the desired holocaustic direction. Take dig up corpses. Sure there will be some. But what does that proof? Some people died during the war. It doesn't prove mass extermination of Jews. Basically it corobates the Revisionist case.
As for Mr. Berg. I think that the personal attacks are sometimes going a bit to far. And Roberto tries to thrive on this. But isn't the whole Holocaust claim a personal attack against Germans?
All in all I think points will be scored with an open-minded audience that is new to the subject.
Postby ginger » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:01 pm)
This was an interesting debate. Frederich Berg is much more interesting to listen to and made good points. Some of Roberto's points gave me pause - like being able to detect mass graves with core samples, radar and aerial photos. Of course I know nothing about these techniques.
I have read David Cole's discussion of Zyklon B and he seemed to say that the pellets needed to be heated in order to give off deadly gas. Roberto said Zyklon B would kill in minutes but I missed Mr. Berg's opinion on how deadly Zyklon B is.
Mr. Berg said he had experience working with weapons of mass destruction, even gas. I would value his opinion on the deadliness of Zyklon B. Did anyone catch what he said on the subject of Zyklon B?
Postby Hannover » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:13 pm)
Some of Roberto's points gave me pause - like being able to detect mass graves with core samples, radar and aerial photos. Of course I know nothing about these techniques.
I have read David Cole's discussion of Zyklon B and he seemed to say that the pellets needed to be heated in order to give off deadly gas. Roberto said Zyklon B would kill in minutes ...
Roberto lied through his teeth. There has been no detection of mass graves with core samples, radar, and aerial photos. The 'studies; he takes these lies from have been utterly demolished. Ginger, you really need to read these threads, all of them. Invest a little time and don't rely on soundbytes.
'Cyanide Chemistry at Auschwitz'
'Mass Graves claimed to be found at Treblinka'
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6804&p=49215
'Belzec: a fraudulent excavation'
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30&p=37585
'Kola's Belzec report and photographs [?] of core samples.'
- Hannover
If it can't happen as alleged, then it didn't.
Pa Gromheizer
Postby Pa Gromheizer » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:38 pm)
The participants were asked whether they were Jewish. Mr. Berg said no. Roberto replied he was German. This does not compute.
Postby Friedrich Paul Berg » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:51 pm)
Most of the answers to Ginger's questions about Zyklon-B can be found in my essay: "Zyklon-B and the German Delousing Chambers" http://www.nazigassings.com/zyklondelousing.html
Postby ginger » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:15 pm)
To Frederich Paul Berg
I read your article on Zyklon B and the delousing chambers. Your article was easy to understand and very persuasive. Thank you for directing me to the link.
Postby Friedrich Paul Berg » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:14 pm)
Muehlenkamp's claim that Zyklon-B could be used to kill people quickly is NOT false--but, the method needed to accomplish that is extremely unlikely and even absurd. The method was first suggested to my knowledge by Sergey Romanov. The method relies on dumping many times more Zyklon-B into the chamber than would be needed to kill any group of victims if the Zyklon-B were used efficiently or conservatively. Where a can of Zyklon-B containing 500 grams of hydrogen cyanide would kill everything in a particular chamber over a 24-hour period, dumping 10,000 grams into the same room might kill everything in the chamber in fifteen minutes--using only that portion of the introduced 10,000 gram Zyklon-B that outgassed in the first fifteen minutes.
After the victims were all dead after about fifteen minutes, the excess Zyklon-B (and there would be lots of it) would continue to "out-gas" for many hours and impose an enormous risk to whoever was sent in to remove the bodies. Even with exhaust fans running, the excess Zyklon-B would still continue to release cyanide gas. Somehow, one might be able to gather all of the left-over Zyklon-B granules from the floor or baskets (from between the bodies as well?) and put it all into sealed containers. That p-a-r-t-i-a-l-l-y used Zyklon-B would be essentially worthless since one could not be sure how much cyanide it still contained--and therefore, the reasonable thing to do would be to dispose of it somehow.
But why bother with such absurdities when the logical method, used by the Germans in hundreds of standard DEGESCH disinfection chambers including several at the Birkenau delousing stations, was to simply blow warm air (about 90 degrees Fahrenheit) through the granules and into the homicidal gas chamber. Since those homicidal gas chambers had mechanical ventilation with supply and return ductwork, it would have been so easy to simply put Zyklon-B granules into baskets placed into the ductwork. As warmed air was forced through the baskets, it would drive out the cyanide gas from the granules and disperse it quickly to all parts of the gas chamber. Any intended level of cyanide in the gas chamber could then be achieved quickly without any waste at all.
The problem for the holocaust hoax, however, is that the so-called "eyewitnesses" have firmly embraced other scenarios. Those other scenarios are totally bizarre and simply cannot be reconciled with the simple and "standard DEGESCH" method I have outlined above. The fans were supposedly turned on ONLY a-f-t-e-r the victims were all dead. That is what the "eyewitnesses" have said again and again--and now the "holocaust scholars" are stuck with that. Supposedly, the Zyklon-B granules were literally dumped on the heads of the intended victims through holes in the ceiling of the gas chamber, or into mesh lined or perforated columns through the same holes. Within those columns, the Zyklon-B granules would have simply been sitting at the bottom w-i-t-h-o-u-t any air passing through them at all. They would have been outgassing extremely slowly merely by evaporation out of the granules. A more thoroughly stupid, and unlikely, and inefficient method is hard to imagine. Even with ten times more than the amounts of Zyklon-B needed for efficient gassing, the absurdity of the method suggested by Romanov and Muehlenkamp would have been obvious to anyone with slightest experience with Zyklon-B and the DEGESCH technology. Would someone else, someone totally unfamilair with DEGESCH methods and without any common sense, have managed to impose such a thoroughly stupid method for cyanide gassings? I think not.
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Postby Hektor » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:45 am)
Alternatively one could heat up the zyklon B to enhance evaporation and then inject it into the room, while at the same time making sure that it distributes quickly in the room internally. Some model like this was used for the delousing chambers I think.
But why use Zyklon B anyway? If it had to be HCN on a large scale, why not have the liquid sealed in a container and then release it with a quick evaporation. I'd estimate that canned Zyklon B wasn't actually cheap to provide.
Postby Kingfisher » 7 years 2 weeks ago (Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:06 am)
Hektor wrote: But why use Zyklon B anyway? If it had to be HCN on a large scale, why not have the liquid sealed in a container and then release it with a quick evaporation. I'd estimate that canned Zyklon B wasn't actually cheap to provide.
You are forgetting that the official line is that it was left to local commanders to improvise their own method of implementation, using whatever was to hand. Presumably to explain the lack of any documentary trail.
At one of the AR camps, I forget which, they were lucky enough to have a Soviet (diesel) submarine engine handy. (Eichmann trial footage used in One Third of the Holocaust.)
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Walking along the coast of the Waihee Refuge today, listening to the sounds of the wind that the kupuna called Ka makani kili oopu, a 1.6 million year old story unfolds beneath your feet. In some ways this story is the story of the entire Hawaiian archipelago, but there are some twists to this story that combine to make Waihee unique. While humans have only walked this land for just over a thousand years, the geological forces that shaped Waihee are written in broad strokes across the entire landscape.
The mountain that rises up from the refuge, variously known as Mauna Kahalawai, Puu Kukui, and sometimes simply the West Maui Mountains, is a geologically young 1.6 million years old. Haleakala, visible across Kahului Bay, by comparison is a geological infant at a mere 1.2 million years old. It is important to note, however, that the ages used to date these volcanoes, which geologists simply call shield volcanoes, are dated to the time when they reached their peak in height. In reality, Mauna Kahalawai and Haleakala stopped growing 1.6 million years and 1.2 million years ago respectively. Both mountains were undoubtedly substantially higher at their peak, but millennia of erosion has reduced their height, and on Mauna Kahalawai in particular, there are deeply incised large valleys where streams flow to the ocean today. At the edge of the Refuge, the Waihee Stream flows into the ocean at a rate of about 15 million gallons each day.
What gives the Waihee Refuge one of its most unique characteristics are the sand dunes that surround it, creating a hollow of sorts, a feature that contributed to the Hawaiian name for this area, Kapoho, or the hollow. If Mauna Kahalawai is defined today by the erosion that shaped its many valleys, Kapoho is defined by these sand dunes. These dunes, which geologists refer to as Aeolian, or wind-blown dunes, are the result of the power of the ice ages. Typically, most of us do not think of ice ages as shaping these islands which lie in the northern tropics. However, Waihee is a testament to the power of these frigid epochs to shape and transform landscapes even thousands of miles distant from the glaciers that shaped North America.
Two ice ages are notable in the geological formation of Maui, Mauna Kahalawai, and Waihee. The first occurred when Haleakala had recently completed its shield building phase and probably rose to an elevation between 12 and 14 thousand feet occurred approximately 1.2 million years ago. This glacial period occurred during the middle of the last geological time period, the Pleistocene, and was particularly severe. With vast volumes of water captured in the northern hemispheres ice caps, sea levels around all of Hawaii dropped hundreds of feet; so much in fact, that the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lana'i and Kahoolawe became one massive island. So large, that this massive island, known colloquially as Maui Nui (or great Maui), was approximately 20% larger than Hawaii Island is today. The massive size of Maui Nui accounts for Maui's incredible biodiversity, as large islands, unsurprisingly, capture the largest number of species flying (or floating) over the vast Pacific Ocean. Little remains to be seen of this powerful ice age in Waihee today, but the signature of the next glacial period, quite literally surrounds the Waihee Refuge.
After a long period of a relatively warm global climate, approximately 21,000 years ago the earth, and the northern hemisphere in particular, went through another intense period of glaciation. Known as the late Pleistocene ice age, and more specifically, the Wisconsin period of glaciation. Sea levels around Hawaii dropped approximately 300-400 feet. Kahoolawe remained independent of Maui Nui island during this period, suggesting a less intense ice age than the previous glacial period. However, because the fringing reef system in front of the Waihee Refuge had built up for well over a million years, its exposure and disintegration over the next 10,000 or so years created the sand that built up and formed the dunes that would, many millennia later, come to be called Mauna Ihi.
Remnants of these dunes once extended from Kalaekahoomano, the point directly above the Waihee stream, through Wailuku around Kahului nearly to Waikapu. The dunes that once covered much of Maui's central valley remained a prominent feature of the landscape, a testament of the power of ice ages to impact landscapes thousands of miles to the south. While anthropogenic modifications have dramatically changed the landscape, in her travel journal English explorer and travel writer Isabella Bird described her travels between Wailuku and Haiku in 1873 as a trip through a "mini Sahara Desert." Today, the 200 foot dunes of the Waihee Refuge are the last unmodified reminder of earths last glacial maximum.
Another striking reminder of the power of natural phenomenon to shape and carve the landscape comes when standing at Kalaekahoomano above Waihee stream, looking north west along the Kahakuloa coast. The cliffs along this rugged coast are a reminder of the fragility of Hawaiian shield volcanoes. For many decades, geologists have known that Hawaiian shield volcanoes are prone to what is sometimes described as 'flank failure.' Simply put, massive chunks of the volcanoes that make up Hawaiian volcanoes will shear off into the ocean. The 300-400 foot cliffs along the Kahakuloa coast seem to be evidence of flank failure. With the collapse of a portion of the mountain, the tsunami this event generated would have been catastrophic for any living (flightless) creature in Waihee. Although no estimate of the volume of this catastrophic event has been calculated, by comparison, the massive flank failure on the island of Molokai approximately 1.5 million years ago, generated a wave estimated at a height of over 1,900 feet. While the Kahakuloa flank collapse would have been substantially smaller than that, the numerous water worn rocks that line the coast of approximately half of the Waihee Refuge are a reminder of the intensity of these catastrophic events.
Finally, as Mauna Kahalawai aged and eroded, the power of water became more prominent across the landscape. While most of that water seeped into the basin that makes up the Waihee stream, a smaller, but substantial portion of that water flows underground, and emerges in springs along the coast. While one large spring was located at the base of the sand dunes, numerous smaller springs are located within Kapoho, surrounded by the dunes, and these springs collectively make up the 27 acres of wetlands in the heart of the Waihee Refuge.
Volcanoes, sea levels ebbing and flowing, flank collapses and the slow power of water each in their own way have come to create and shape this land that we have loved and cared for over the past decade and a half — an insignificant point in the great tapestry of time. Understanding these geological processes is a reminder of our connection to the land, and how truly small we are within the vast scope of the history of the land. He alii ka aina, he kauwa ke kanaka (the land is the chief, and people are its servants), never rings more true than when we understand our place on the landscape.
— Dr. Scot Fisher
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust announced today that Laura Kaakua will be appointed as its new President and Chief Executive Officer starting in March 2019. Kaakua will be replacing Kāwika Burgess who will transition to HILT's Board of Advisors and lead HILT's development campaign. "We are very pleased to welcome Laura to the land trust and are excited with the level of land conservation experience that she brings to HILT. The land trust is in a great position to ensure that the most significant natural and cultural resources on each district on each island are protected for future generations," said Jonathan Scheuer, HILT's Board Chairman.
Kaakua is a graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law, and has extensive land conservation experience having spent the last 9 years serving as the Aloha ʻĀina Project Manager at The Trust for Public Land. She has also been a lecturer at the William S. Richardson School of Law and served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Greg Nakamura in the Third Circuit Court. Kaakua is an alakaʻi of hālau hula Nā Pualei o Likolehua, a volunteer with Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana, and served as a committee member of the Access to Justice Commission.
"HILT has worked with communities and landowners across Hawaiʻi to conserve over 18,000 acres of our most precious lands — from native forests, to ranch pastures, to coastal wetlands. I am grateful and excited to build upon the organization's previous success, and continue to protect Hawaiʻi's special natural places," said Kaakua.
"I'd like to share my deepest mahalo to Laura for her extraordinary years at The Trust for Public Land's Hawaiian Islands office, and congratulations to HILT for choosing such a promising leader," said Lea Hong, The Trust for Public Land's Hawaiian Islands State Director. "Laura has shaped and led our Aloha 'Āina Program, collaborating with Native Hawaiian communities across Hawai'i nei to conserve lands that re-connect people to land and their culture. I have no doubt that HILT will benefit from her talents and wish her the best of luck."
"I am grateful to Lea and all of my Trust for Public Land colleagues and community partners for their incredible work over the years and for their support today. I look forward to partnering with The Trust for Public Land and other organizations and agencies to further our shared goals," Kaakua said.

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SPORTSCENTER ON INSTAGRAM
Entrant Company: ESPN
Outstanding Use of Instagram
Omar Raja's impact and deep connection with social audiences added fuel to the growing increase in followers and engagement for SportsCenter on Instagram driven by the existing ESPN Social team.
ESPN Social's leadership position and its 115% YOY growth in total actions happened during an unprecedented year that included the absence of live sports – and by extension, the absence of sports highlights that fuels SportsCenter. It was an challenging time for everyone in the sports industry, but ESPN didn't skip a beat and rose to the occasion. The team rallied to continue covering the sports world and the latest breaking news while also keeping fans and the sports community engaged by leaning heavier into fun, user-generated content, serving as a place for fans to come together and fill the sports void until live sports returned. It continues to strike a balance of both types of content, which has benefited the account to its growing and industry-leading success.
Objective: For the past three years, and with the full support of its new president (now Chairman, ESPN and Sports Content) Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN deepened its investment in digital and social content to support its audience expansion priority, specifically in reaching more followers and growing engagement with younger and more diverse fans. Bringing House of Highlights founder Omar Raja's influence to SC Instgram account was a core part of this strategy. The ESPN Social team has also invested in resources to keep up with the ever-changing social algorithms to study content trends and metrics and monitor content performance to grow reach and engagement with these audiences year-round.
Strategy & Execution: SportsCenter on Instagram is an extension of ESPN's flagship TV show that serves fans and the sports community with fun and engaging content that entertains, informs and connects with younger audiences in a way that reflects how they consume sports today. Much like Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann, Stuart Scott, Scott Van Pelt and other personalities that drew audiences to the original SportsCenter, Omar Raja joined ESPN in 2020 to do just that for SC on IG, injecting his own voice and personality when he took over the account.
In the first three weeks of 2020, total video views jumped to 400M (+65% YOY) and engagement per post increased 30%. By the end of the year, the account grew to 20M followers (up +35%) and attracted industry-leading engagement of 1.76B total actions (+115%) and 373K actions per post (up +75%). The account also had more than 40 posts garnering over 1M social engagements apiece, including its most popular Instagram post of 2020, Jay Williams on Kobe (1.97M social engagements, 8.3M video views). Before 2020, the account didn't have a single post that achieved that threshold. SC on IG also helped drive ESPN to become the No. 1 sports media publisher for engagement with 4.2B total actions across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (source: Shareablee), the highest among all sports publishers in 2020 (+64%).
Beyond the numbers behind this growth, SC on IG has attracted the attention and praise from the biggest athletes and celebrities, including LeBron, The Rock, Trae Young, D-Wade, Christian Pulisic, Steph Curry, Justin Bieber, Shaq, Joe Budden and more. The account has also served as a platform for cultural crossovers, including the intersection of sports and music.
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Omar Raja
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Digital Video/Social Producer
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Arthur Kogan
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Dreams and Dances
for SATB Chorus and Piano* (or Strings) (1992)
The first song, Bones, Be Good! is also available for SSA chorus (treble/youth chorus) or SSAA chorus (women's chorus) and piano or string quartet/string orchestra.
It is also the first movement of No Ordinary Woman! (1997), a song cycle for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano (or string orchestra)
Read Woman of Words, Woman of Music by Kathy O'Connell, Hartford Advocate (an article about Lucille Clifton and Gwyneth Walker).
Read The Music of the Spheres and Then Some by Steve Metcalf, Hartford Courant.
Read a review of Bones, Be Good! from Dreams and Dances (1992) SATB choir and piano by Paul Leprade, The Choral Journal.
Download an MP3 file of the first movement of this work performed by the Simsbury High School Chorus and String Orchestra, Stephan Barnicle, conductor.
Download an MP3 file of the second movement of this work.
Download an MP3 file of the third movement of this work.
Download an MP3 file of the first movement of this work performed by the Texas State University Singers, Jonathan Babcock, conductor.
Download an MP3 file of the first movement of this work (including added flute and hand-claps) performed by the "One Voice" Mixed Chorus, Jane Ramseyer Miller, conductor.
Download an MP3 file of a performance of the first movement of this work (SSA with strings) by the St. Louis Women's Chorale, Scott Schoonover, conductor.
Download an MP3 file of a performance of the first movement of this work (SATB with strings) by the Kellogg Chamber Singers at California Polytech University, Iris S. Levine, director
* Download a PDF file of an optional solo violin part (by Timothy Reno and Gwyneth Walker) for use with "Bones, Be Good!" (SATB and piano version).
Download an MP3 file of this version (SATB, violin, piano) performed by the Sienna College Concert Choir, Timothy Reno, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the first movement of this work performed by the New Classic Singers, Lee R. Kesselman, conductor.
Download a PDF file of the SSA and piano score of "Bones, Be Good!". For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the SSA and strings score of "Bones, Be Good!". For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the SATB and piano score of "Bones, Be Good!". For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the SATB and piano score of "Some Dreams Hang in the Air". For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the SATB and piano score of "Let There Be New Flowering". For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the SATB and strings score of the complete Dreams and Dances. For perusal only -- not printable.
Download a PDF file of the poetry used in this work as text for printing in concert programs.
Jointly commissioned by the Simsbury and Farmington, Connecticut High School Choruses and String Ensembles.
The three movements of this work are all settings of poems by Lucille Clifton. The musical language, reflective of the poetry, is essentially an American language derived from jazz and folk idoms.
Lucille Clifton (poet) was born in 1936 in Depew, New York and educated at Howard University and the State University of New York at Fredonia. Formerly the Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland, she has taught at Goucher College and the American University in Washington, DC.


Well, it's basically an event that doesn't get organized until you show up. Although, it is planned by a small group of people who actually attend BarCamp, my brother being one of them. Anyone who attends has the opportunity to pitch an idea for a session, in under 30 seconds, and then it gets scheduled into the day. There were 5 rooms with 5 sessions happening at once, in the Discovery Parks building on Great Canadian Way, and you just got to choose which ones you would like to go to.
Last year, my brother shot a short video of me as we were leaving BarCamp, to ask what I thought of it. Check it out below.
This year, I think I was a little more into doing my own thing, and not just following Jordan to whatever sessions he wanted to go to. In the morning, I went on the photowalk session with a bunch of photographers whom I know and admire, and after lunch went to the photography-related session that talked about using programs like Aperture and Lightroom to manipulate your photos. Now, of course, I need to out and buy one of them, because you can do all kinds of crazy stuff with your photos, and tag them and organize them in so many different ways. It's nuts.
There were many other great discussions yesterday, and I learned a lot from some very cool people who are doing amazing things in the tech world.
I will leave you with a few photos I took yesterday during the photowalk.
I was amazed at how few cars were there. Most people chose to carpool, cycle, or take transit.
Thank you everyone, and hope to see you all next year at BarCamp!
Woohoo! Glad to see you really digging in and having a great Barcamp all on your own this year.
And thanks for your help!
Love the pics! Great work! I just invested in a Nikon D5000~love the SLR!
Keep up the fun picture walks!
Hey! Love your blog. I found it om Myweblog .
I also like outdoor sports.


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E!"s "Botched" fixing for its second season
By Jordyn Holman |
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2014 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: November 18, 2018 at 12:00 am
E! announced today that "Botched," its reality show that gives viewers a glimpse into the world of plastic surgery revision, will get a chance to redo itself with a second season.
By the time of its freshman season finale on August 17, "Botched" will have reviewed over 20 surgeries and procedures that did not have expected outcomes.
The reality series is a ratings hit for the cabler, which reports that it could become its most-watched show docu-series among the 18-49-year-old age group.
"The 'Botched' series has struck a chord with viewers who are drawn in by stories of excessive surgeries gone wrong," said Jeff Olde, executive vice president of programming and development. "In the quest for perfection, we've tapped into a pop culture zeitgeist, sharing cautionary tales, positive outcomes and true transformations."
Doctors Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif will return for season two and E! officials said they have already received thousands of submissions from potential patients.
"Botched" is produced by Evolution Media production and exec produced by Alex Baskin, Douglas Ross, Greg Stewart and Robert Carroll. The second season is slated to premiere in 2015.
(C) 2014 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media; Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC
Jordyn Holman


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UCSF dyslexia researchers develop tool to flag early reading challenges
Jess Berthold, UC San Francisco
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A UC San Francisco-developed tool to detect early signs of literacy weaknesses that could lead to dyslexia got a boost in the California governor's recent budget proposal, and could be in widespread use in the state's public schools by 2023.
Dyslexia is a brain-based learning challenge that affects about 15 percent of the population and is unrelated to intelligence, according to the International Dyslexia Association. Children with dyslexia have trouble learning to read and write, and can fall behind if the condition is unaddressed.
UCSF's free digital assessment, which has been piloted with 2,000 students at dozens of California schools to date, is meant to spot pre-reading challenges in kindergarten or first grade, so educators can intervene before dyslexia is typically diagnosed, said Marilu Gorno Tempini, M.D., Ph.D., Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor in Dyslexia and Neurodevelopment, and co-director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center and the UCSF-UCB Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center.
"We don't usually diagnose dyslexia in kindergarten — kids are not expected to read fluently yet," Gorno Tempini said. "But we know there are risk factors and the hope is that if we address those factors earlier on, the kids will not develop the difficulties with written language associated with dyslexia."
"By the time dyslexia is recognized in third or fourth grade, kids have suffered through feeling incapable or being bullied for years" she added. "In a worst-case scenario, these kids fall further behind and eventually drop out. So we are really creating a prevention tool here."
Governor Gavin Newsom, who struggled with dyslexia as a child, allocated $10 million to UCSF for dyslexia research in his January budget proposal. Lawmakers will debate the 2022-23 budget over the next few months, with a final budget plan due in June.
The UCSF Dyslexia Center received $15.2 million in the current year's state budget, and $3.5 million from the 2019-20 state budget. Last year, a budget trailer bill allocated $4 million for dyslexia early intervention in the school system last year, as well.
Neuroscience-based approach
UCSF's assessment tool, called Multitudes, is unique because it is based in the latest neuroscience research and designed to be paired with interventions, said Gorno Tempini, who is affiliated with the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
Proctors with California schoolchildren validate the new Multitudes reading assessment tool. Credit: Phaedra Bell
"Dyslexia has been addressed mainly as an academic issue and not a neurological/health one, and research usually goes through schools of education or psychology without a comprehensive brain health approach to the issue," Gorno Tempini said. "Here, we are combining the brain and education sciences, the imaging, the biology and the technology to really understand the strengths and weaknesses of dyslexia and bring it back to empower families and schools and children."
Though administered by proctors on iPad currently, Multitudes will ultimately be web-based, administered by educators and take about 20 minutes. Some elements of the assessment are adapted from partner universities in other states, and UCSF is validating them for the California school population — essentially validating and revising the assessment in real time, said Phaedra Bell, Ph.D., a UCSF program manager and director of school partnerships of the Multitudes project.
"This isn't a tool that is 'done'," said Bell. "It will continue to be perfected and the data we collect will continue to inform it."
Commitment to diversity and collaboration
The Multitudes project team is prioritizing equity in the creation and use of its tool, noted Michelle Porche, Ed.D., associate director of community outreach for the UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center.
The 30-plus schools across California that are piloting Multitudes were chosen to reflect the state's demographics, and the scientists, clinicians, teachers, designers and software engineers who are working on the tool are from diverse communities.
"We are building inclusive partnerships with schools and communities, so that we can recruit participants for our studies that reflect the racial, ethnic and linguistic diversity of the state," said Porche. "The study of dyslexia has been limited by a lack of racial, ethnic, and linguistic representation, but we are increasingly intentional about addressing structural racism that creates barriers to success for students of color in California."
Initial research for the UCSF assessment was conducted at specialty schools for dyslexia, such as the Charles Armstrong and Chartwell Schools, and funded by Charles Schwab and other philanthropists, noted Christa Watson Pereira, Psy.D., UCSF assistant professor of neurology and advisor to the Multitudes project.
"These independent schools, and the families and students who go there, gave us the opportunity to have a cohort of 400 children with dyslexia and other learning challenges who volunteered hours of their time to be tested and scanned with MRIs, and donated their DNA," said Watson Pereira. "From these children we gathered the evidence to make the tool that we are now scaling to public schools."
The English version of Multitudes was piloted in fall 2021; the Spanish version will be piloted in spring 2022 and the Mandarin version in fall 2022. The goal is to reach 10,000 kids by the end of 2022, and to have the free tool in widespread use for California schoolchildren in 2023, Bell said.
From assessment to intervention
At the same time Multitudes is being validated and refined, UCSF researchers are working with the schools of education at University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles to curate best-practice materials, curriculum and interventions for educators to use when reading challenges are detected. The Sacramento County Office of Education also is working closely with UCSF on the best way to train teachers across the state in early reading instruction.
Currently, schools often use a single approach for reading issues that may not work for all students, Gorno Tempini said. For example, a school may use specific "dyslexia fonts" that are presumed to make reading easier for students who struggle, yet these fonts may not help children whose language issues stem from auditory problems.
"The idea is to have multiple interventions available at every school that can be tailored to the strengths and weaknesses of each student, rather than each school having a different approach," Gorno Tempini said. "Different brains learn differently, and from a neurological point of view, precision education makes the same sense as precision medicine."
Maurice Ramirez
Marilu Gorno Tempini, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center.
"The study of dyslexia has been limited by a lack of racial, ethnic, and linguistic representation, but we are increasingly intentional about addressing structural racism that creates barriers to success for students of color in California."
Michelle Porche, Ed.D.
With $12 million in federal funding, UCLA to expand reach…
Faculty with the Depression Grand Challenge have created a system for managing mental health that they hope can be scaled and customized.
How gene therapy saved a child from "Bubble Boy Disease"
Breakthrough makes young boy the first person to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID.


Location: Moodlu, between caboolture and the Wam.
If you crank the pump up it would inject more fuel in the lower revs than it can burn till the turbo can pump more air in. I see a lot of that out on the road, a trail of black smoke following a slow moving Hilux. With the boost compensator fitted it would make the injection volume variable and therefore more fuel efficient. I would sugest that you get new injector nozzles and get someone that knows about turbo setups to set the pressure correctly so that the higher fuel quantity injected atomizes properly. this would also inject less fuel than that delivered by the pump under full load and give you a better burn and more fuel back in the tank.
[font=Arial Black][font=Book Antiqua]LJ78 Landcruiser II now locked and loaded.
Fair enough, that's why I bought the 2LT pump in the first place, but after getting it caliberated and finding it no better, I lost confidence.
I do have new nozzels, it sounds like the shop I was useing don't know their *****.
"[b][i]Parts left out cost nothing, and cause no service problems, keep it simple[/i][/b]"
double diffa wrote: The full load injection volume should be the same, with and without boost compensator yes?
Yes, if adjusted properly, as all the BC does is restrict the injection volume until the set amount of boost overcomes the spring preload and allows full volume to be injected.
Yeh, that's what I thought, so the only real adventage would be a cleaner burn below boost (2000 revs).
I don't spend much time there anyway, I try to drive between 2000 and 3000 rpm.
Noing my luck, if I need to use my spare pump again, it will leak from sitting.
I would consider fitting the B.C. to my existing pump, as long as I don't have to remove the pump to do it.
If it was just a mater of swaping tops, and then fiddleing with the full load injection volume untill it runs the same exhaust temp as what i have now, then I am willing to have a go.
Better than having a $500 pump I can't use.
check the internal timing of the pump whilst its out of the vehicle.
If its not to specs, you have most likely found the problem.
Then just retest when its on the vehicle.
another thing to consider tho, is the BC diaphragm in good condition, if there split, they will cause issues like poor fuel consumption, lack of power etc.
All easy stuff to check whilst its out of the vehicle.
My Wife cant shear But you should see her crutch!
Save the Whales......Collect the whole set!
Yeh, that's all working, and they both run the same exhaust temp @ full load, so must be the same fuel being burnt.
I'm not pulling the pump off again, and I'm not game to refit the 2LT pump after it's been sitting for 2 years it will probably leak.
The diesel shop was supposed to set the pump up, so should be all correct.
I would rather put the B.C. on my current pump, but i'm not going to pull the pump off, so if it can be done in the vehicle, I might do that.
So long as it's going you should be right. Lets start a new thread.
I can't think of anything constructive.
Re: 2LT injector pump internal timing?
There is a special tool (timer measuring device, Denso No. 95095-10220) that goes in under a side cover on the pump and you need a dial gauge to set the pump timing properly.
I'm looking for this timing device, mentioned above. Does anyone know what Dial Guage to use that fits correctly on the 2L-T, what company and part #? Does that Denso Timing Kit 95095-10220 t come with the dial guage?


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De kerk van Grüfflingen is de parochiekerk van de tot de Luikse gemeente Burg-Reuland behorende plaats Grüfflingen.

Geschiedenis
De eerste kapel kwam in 1677. Vanaf 1697 werden er Missen in opgedragen. In 1752 en 1893 werd de kapel gerestaureerd en vernieuwd. De kapel was echter klein. In 1955 werd begonnen met de bouw van een kerk. In 1956 werd de kerk ingewijd. Het is een modern kerkgebouw met voorgebouwde toren. De kerk heeft interessante glas-in-loodramen en kruiswegstaties die uit mozaïekstenen zijn vervaardigd.

Grüfflingen
Bouwwerk in Burg-Reuland

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WISeKey Appoints David Khalifa as Vice-President of Global Sales
Geneva – February 24, 2022 - WISeKey International Holding Ltd ("WISeKey") (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain and IoT company, today announced the appointment of David Khalifa as its Vice-President of Global Sales, effective immediately.
Mr. Khalifa brings over 30 years of sales development experience in the semiconductor industry. He started his career at global industry leaders such as, STMicroelectronics, LSI Logic and NXP, where he held key account management and sales & marketing leadership positions in Europe, in the Americas and in Asia.
He then spent 9 years in the UK as Worldwide Sales and Marketing VP for the start-up Nanotech Semiconductor that he led to a successful exit in 4 years, and then HiLight Semiconductor that he brought to profitability in four years.
More recently, he was VP of the UV Emitter Product Group at Silanna in Australia where he managed to build, qualify and market UVC LED.
During his career, David has acquired a broad multi-cultural experience, leading cross functional teams in Europe, Americas, Asia, and Australia, combined with an extensive expertise in high-tech market segments such as telecoms, consumer, computing, optical communication and purification/disinfection. He has an excellent understanding of the key markets for WISeKey and a unique experience of bringing technologies to market. The combination of David's ability to build a comprehensive business plan and drive its execution will be a great asset for WISeKey.
David graduated from INSA Lyon, in France, with an Engineering degree in Physics and Semiconductor Materials.
Carlos Moreira, WISeKey's Founder and CEO, commented, "David's leadership experience in sales and marketing will be very valuable assets to our team as we continue to execute our global expansion strategy. David will provide leadership to WISeKey's sales in cybersecurity, IOT and anti-counterfeiting with a charter to drive profitable growth across geographies and market segments. He will strengthen WISeKey's presence in the US and in Europe to expand into other regions and new market segments. I look forward to working with him for years to come."
David Khalifa added, "I feel privileged to have been appointed Global Sales VP of WISeKey. WISeKey has formed a talented team and offers market leading solutions combining semiconductors and cybersecurity, the most strategic fields of the world digitalization, under three pillars: Innovation, Loyalty and Customer Service.
I Iook forward to contributing to the growth of the company, building on the tremendous opportunities still available in the market."
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing shaping today's Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens…). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey's Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust ("RoT") provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
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WISeKey International Holding Ltd
Company Contact: Carlos Moreira
info@wisekey.com
WISeKey Investor Relations (US)
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Using authentic material in your lessons can stimulate and capture the imaginations of your students. Original and native material such as newspapers, maps, brochures, menus and magazines are some ideas to bring real world language into the classroom.
Involving your students in real world tasks will help reinforce new skills and encourage the practical use of the language. Reading and comprehending a utility bill or a shopping receipt are some ways to motivate and enhance language learning.
Student centred learning can go a long way in the classroom. Help stimulate student curiosity and encourage confidence by acting as a facilitator or guide and deliver lessons that reflect your interest in student experiences and learning skills.
Encouraging laughter and self-correction of mistakes in the classroom can help promote a positive learning environment that is safe and risk-free. Avoid criticism and judgement.
Talking less and letting your students do 80% of it in class can reinforce speaking and listening skills in language learning. Encourage pair or group conversation after every lesson highlighting grammar points, new vocabulary and life/cultural experiences.
There's plenty of Easter vocabulary and traditions for your ESL students to learn about this week - starting with Good Friday on Friday, April 19th and Easter Sunday on April 21st. Have your students learn more about this religious celebration as well as the commercial side of Easter including the Easter bunny, chocolate goodies and the joys of Easter egg hunting!
It's Earth Hour around the world this Saturday, March 30th (8:30 p.m. local time). This environmental movement, which initially started in 2005 in Sydney, Australia, has encouraged individuals and businesses around the world to show their support for climate change initiatives and an awareness of their own carbon footprint. Be sure to set some time aside to talk about this global climate campaign with your ESL students and see if they're going to turn out their lights for one hour!
Watch the official EARTH HOUR video here.
1. Have you participated in Earth Hour before? What did you do and how did it make you feel?
2. What have been some initiatives in your home country for raising awareness about climate change and the environment? Are there any current environmental policies or programs in place for residents and businesses? Have they been working?
3. What are some ways in which people can reduce their energy consumption in a typical home of a developed country? What about for businesses?
4. In what ways can people enjoy being in the dark for one hour at home with their family or friends?
The Spring Equinox has arrived (March 20/21st) to those living in the Northern Hemisphere and with it comes the joys of warmer weather (we hope!), chirping birds and colorful spring flowers! Make this a time to teach or review spring season vocabulary words and phrases with your ESL students!
1. Does your home country recognize the spring/autumn equinox at this time of the year? Describe the changes.
2. What is your favourite season? Why? Has your preference changed over the years?
3. Do you think people are affected emotionally, mentally, or physically with the early signs of spring? Explain.
International Women's Day is March 8th! This year's theme, Balance for Better, encourages pledging towards women and girls worldwide to help them achieve their ambitions and to lessen the gap between gender inequality. Various events and traditions will be taking place to honour and celebrate women's rights and achievements worldwide. Take the time to explore this global event with your ESL students and get them talking about the progress made, as well as the struggles that many women still face today.
On February 26th, say Happy Birthday to Levi Strauss, the co-inventor of blue jeans! Get your students to learn about the history of these popular causal pants.
Read more about the history and invention of blue jeans here.
1. Do you wear blue jeans? If so, when and where? How many pairs of jeans do you own? Would you find it hard to throw out your favourite pair of jeans? If so, why?
2. Are jeans popular and fashionable in your home country? If so, who typical wears them and when?
3. Do you remember your first pair of blue jeans? Do you remember the brand name and how much they cost?
4. What's the difference between a cheap pair of jeans and an expensive pair of jeans?
5. How has the look and feel of blue jeans changed over the years? What's the difference between the way they are marketed to men, women, children?


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