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World Economic Forum Preps For Modi Mantra With Tastes Of India, Twists Of Yoga
Created: Jan 21, 2018, 17:42 IST | Updated: Jan 21, 2018, 17:48 IST
New Delhi: With exquisite desi cuisine on the platter and live yoga sessions on display, the annual Swiss jamboree of the rich and powerful from "a fractured world" will begin tomorrow in Davos where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to pitch India as a growth engine for the global economy.
Over 3,000 world leaders from business, politics, art, academia and civil society will attend the 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting over the next five days in the small ski resort town on snow-covered Alps mountains, where the Indian presence will be the largest ever with over 130 participants.
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WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab will declare the summit open tomorrow evening with a welcome message on the meeting's theme, 'Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World'.
It will be followed by honouring Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan, Australian actress Cate Blanchett and legendary musician Elton John with the annual 'Crystal Awards' for their respective work towards improving the state of the world.
The evening will also see a ballet performance, while India will host the 'welcome reception' with the country's "exquisite cuisine and age-hold Yoga heritage as well as the spirit of a young, innovative New India".
The official sessions will begin on Tuesday when Modi will deliver the 'opening plenary', during which he is expected to pitch India as an open economy that is ready for investments from across the world and also as a major engine to drive the global economic growth. Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to attend Davos meeting in about 20 years since H D Deve Gowda in 1997.
During his 24-hour-visit, described by officials as "short but very focused", Modi will also host a dinner for CEOs from across the world -- 20 of Indian companies and 40 from elsewhere -- on Monday evening and will interact with a large gathering of 120 members of WEF's international business community on Tuesday.
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Besides, he will hold a bilateral meeting with Swiss President Alain Berset, among other pull-asides, as per the government officials. Modi will be accompanied by six union ministers -- Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, M J Akbar and Jitendra Singh. The CEO delegation, led by apex industry body CII, will include Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Azim Premji, Rahul Bajaj, N Chandrasekaran, Chanda Kochhar, Uday Kotak and Ajay Singh, among others.
Among global leaders, US President Donald Trump will be there to deliver the closing address, but any meeting with Prime Minister Modi is unlikely as the two would not be in town on the same day. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will also be in Davos, but officials in India have said no meeting is planned between him and Modi.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are among the other attendees.
While Trump is expected to talk about his 'America First' policy, officials in India said Modi's central message at this multilateral forum will be about India being an economy that can be an engine of global growth and which wants others to participate in its growth and also wants to contribute to others' development.
A lot of focus is expected on what Trump says and what would be the response of other world leaders, including from Germany, France and the UK. Ahead of the summit, an annual WEF survey, likely to be discussed in detail during the meeting, showed that the world will see risks related to environment, economy and international relations intensify this year with a majority of stakeholders expecting political or economic confrontations between major powers to worsen.
In a first at the WEF summit, India will also host yoga training sessions for the entire duration of the meeting, while also showcasing Indian heritage and culture in Davos.
On the sidelines of the WEF summit, the Swiss government will also host the annual informal WTO ministerial meeting, which will be attended by Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu and his global counterparts.
According to a Swiss government statement, negotiations on a bilateral investment protection pact and the envisaged free trade agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), of which Switzerland is a member, will figure prominently during Modi's meeting with Berset.
Modi is expected to encapsulate making of 'a new, young and innovative India', while he is also expected to talk about his experience with 'cooperative federalism' in India, while urging the world for a collective crackdown on terrorism, economic imbalances, cyber threats and various societal ills.
According to officials, Modi will also talk about numerous steps they have taken to make it easier to do business in India, check corruption, clamp down on black money, streamline taxation and boost sustainable growth.
Another star speaker will be ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, who has been praised as well as criticised often for his vocal views on everything from politics to economics and is credited for predicting the global economic crisis of 2008.
He will speak on the power of economic narratives and how policymakers can address the challenges of the 21st century. Bollywood king Shahrukh Khan, for a change, would not be seen serenading heroines with his signature 'open-arm' charm on Swiss Alps, but will rather talk about creating a change in India through women empowerment. (PTI)
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The team are renowned for their creativity, expertise, and above all for their immense passion for the world of motor sports, be it on two or four wheels. Over the years they have been responsible for epoch-defining racing titles, including "Screamer" "Motogp 08", the "Superbike" series, and, since 2010, the official games of the World Rally Championship. This has lead to the team forging close links with prominent partner companies over the years, including publishers like Atari, Black Bean Games, Capcom, Electronic Arts and Virgin.
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Mindfulness Challenge receives amazing response
More than 5,000 people took part in Learn Devon's Mindfulness Challenge last week.
The five-day challenge was launched to help people to look after their mental health and wellbeing during the current lockdown.
It featured a series of 20-minute videos, providing people with an opportunity to practice mindfulness – training techniques for your mind and wellbeing – on a daily basis.
Feedback from those who took part in the challenge revealed that 67% felt more relaxed and 55% said it helped them cope better with lockdown. And the vast majority (92%) said they would recommend it to friends and family.
Among those who took part in the Mindfulness Challenge was Bridget Kirke, from Kingsbridge. She said: "I never understood anxiety, but I am isolating as I am on the critically vulnerable list. I also completely stopped working and haven't been in a supermarket since March, but I can't believe what a difference this has made to my life. My glass has always been 'half full' and full of positivity, but anxiety levels have been horrendous because of COVID. Until now! Thank you!"
Carole Tudor, from Barnstaple, said: "I found the challenge to be a really good focus for my day. It helped with my concentration and keeping me calm. Finding myself on my own during lockdown, this has made a big difference. I plan to continue with some of the techniques I learned in the future. I was really impressed by the quality of the tutor too. Paul was incredibly clear and articulate, and had a fantastic teaching style."
Learn Devon, Devon County Council's adult education service provider, also saw all of its wellbeing courses become fully booked within three days of the challenge starting, with more than 150 people enrolling in courses.
The Mindfulness Challenge was led by Paul Beard, a qualified meditation teacher and coach and yoga instructor for Learn Devon. He said: "We have been bowled over by the number of sign-ups and may I take this opportunity to thank Matt Rajczi from Learn Devon for all of his hard work in creating and organising the Challenge. The huge amount of interest just shows that under the stresses and strains of the pandemic, people are looking for ways to cope and manage that stress and it seems that for many of them mindfulness and meditation fits the bill. I always aim to teach in a down to earth, accessible and inclusive way and it's been heartening to witness that meditation is not considered to be so fringe anymore.
"There's no need to take on new beliefs other than believing in the power of your own mind to bring you the benefits of regular practice. Mindfulness and meditation is perfectly suitable for people of any faith, or none, and it's always wonderful to see my Learn Devon learners and wider students reconnecting with their natural happiness and wellbeing that true awareness of – and purposeful attention to – the present moment uncovers."
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Councillor Rufus Gilbert, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Economy and Skills, said: "The Mindfulness Challenge received an amazing response and it's encouraging that so many people have decided to take this positive step in looking after their mental health. Good mental health is an important part of our overall wellbeing, and the challenges brought about by the pandemic have certainly increased the strain on everyone's lives. The take-up of the course speaks volumes for the quality of the learning being provided, but it also tells us that people are looking for help with their wellbeing during lockdown. I'm pleased that Learn Devon has been able to play a part in supporting people."
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Reagan Budget Director Basically Says Republican Pledge is a Joke - Trashes Idea of Permanent Tax Cuts for the Rich
Former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman tells the truth about the Republican Pledge to America in interview with NPR this past week. Although he also criticized Democrats (naturally). I think his suggestion that TARP was a complete waste/failure isn't quite correct.... especially since we now know that the final bill is far less than the hundreds of billions that had been anticipated.
But I love how he exposes the phony act that Republicans have been putting on regarding taxes and their economic proposals.
Jon Stewart's segment on the Republican's non-plan for the Country is classic! Same Republican BS.
Labels: economy, GOP, Republican Party
As opposed to what ... the same democratic bullshit? Liberalism, as practiced by the current iteration of the D's is a failed concept. Nice in theory, but impratical because it doesn't take into account human behavior and motivation.
Fiscal conservatives have left the Republican party and become independents, the moderate Democrats have left and become independents.
The gratuitous bashing of the R's isn't productive. Please explain to me one country where socialism as envisioned by Pelosi et al has succeeded and achieved all of its goals and has a productive, vibrant, growing economy.
It doesn't exist.
The Angry Independent said...
I don't know what you call "socialism". Conservatives love to throw that term around pretty loosely, in most cases, without knowing what it means.
But if you are talking about nations that put more of a priority on investing in their own infrastructure, their own people, investing in their children, investing in education, investing in health, maintaining some sort of safety net system... most of those Countries are doing fine. Canada, nations of Scandinavia, (UK doing fine up until recently)....and they tend to have better outcomes than the U.S. in terms of education, infant mortality, health, quality of life, etc.... Even Canadian Conservatives see value in their health system.
The Repubs wasted over a trillion overseas over the past decade... and there was not so much as a whimper from Conservative demagogue's like Glenn Beck & the rest... But talk about investing in the middle class or even America's children, and it sends you all into a frenzy.
It's no coincidence that over that same decade when trillions were wasted (when you combine the wars and the tax cuts, the cost has been around 2 trillion), economists say that we experienced poor, lackluster growth... so bad in fact, that they call it "The Lost Decade".
If you want to go back to that, move to the rural south...like poor Mississippi where the GOP is in control or rural Tennessee where Conservatives allow the homes of their fellow citizens to burn to the ground, because they are so vehemently against a collective tax system that they concocted a fee based service for public safety... in essence commercializing or privatizing public safety // the value of life, etc. Their motto..."tough shit for those who can't afford to pay the fee...".
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Those Wheels Of Justice Grinding Slow (And Incomplete) Again...
The 'Mr Yummy' ice cream man filmed smashing the van window of his Mr Whippy rival has been spared a jail term.
Zeheer Ramzan, 34, was given a six month prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Preston Crown Court yesterday.
Yes, it's taken six months!
Oh, hang on! There's a bit of a wrinkle..
In November the former Mr Yummy driver had previously pleaded guilty at Blackburn magistrates' court to criminal damage and possession of a weapon in a public place, but denied assault.
But magistrates said his account of events was 'untruthful'.
The 34-year-old Halifax man had told Blackburn police his victim Mr Mulla, had purposefully driven into the back of his van. But magistrates accepted Mr Mulla's version of events, that he had been struck on the arm with the wrench, and then showered with glass from a smashed window.
Police recalled Ramzan for questioning after viewing the YouTube footage. He answered, 'no comment' to a series of follow-up questions and claimed the glass smashed accidentally.
Ah. The plot thickens...
Prosector Eddie Harrison asked if he had left his vehicle armed with the tyre wrench both times he approached Mr Mulla. Ramzan replied 'No'. He said: 'I just ran at his van to scare him away, he had been following me. I went back to the van for it because he had waved a claw hammer at me.'
Mr Harrison then showed CCTV footage from Mr Mulla's van in which he can be seen holding the wrench both times he approaches. Mr Ramzan replied 'It was months ago.'
Lame, Mr Ramzan. Limper than a 99 in a heatwave...
Mr Ramzan had also told the court he had never been in trouble with the police before to which Mr Harrison produced documents showing court convictions for driving when uninsured and obstructing justice.
So...why wasn't he done for perjury as well?
Labels: justice system, liars, modern society
MTG said...
" So...why wasn't he done for perjury as well?"
One can barely contemplate what wafer-thin excuses were used to deny these poor men proper amputations in any one of the UK's hundred Sharia courts.
Dr Cromarty said...
More enrichment.
John Pickworth said...
Minority Community Translation Service Announcement for the hard of behaving:
Mr Whippy = Bin Al Azad, State Employee of [insert camel/fly infested hell hole] tasked with behavioural correction.
Ice Cream Van Man = Person with wheals flogging semi-frozen sweet treat.
Well I'm wondering about his presumed swearing on the Koran to 'tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'? His community might wish to consider if he's really worthy of being in their little clan.
Furor Teutonicus said...
XX spared a jail term.
Zeheer Ramzan, XX
Woulöd it be OVERLY cynical of me to fucking wonder WHY that was so???
XX Mr Ramzan had also told the court he had never been in trouble with the police before to which Mr Harrison produced documents showing court convictions for driving when uninsured and obstructing justice. XX
Eh! Hold up!
Have we actualy found a prosecuter with balls here???
What is the secret to your literary talent for juxtaposing upper and lower cases around a mesmeric collage of silver-tongued mots justes, Furor?
"More enrichment."
And we are supposed to wonder why Billy Bragg lives in Dorset!
"His community might wish to consider if he's really worthy of being in their little clan."
Sadly, I think you'll find the answer to be 'Why not?'..
"Have we actualy found a prosecuter with balls here???"
It would have been nice to be in court to see that, wouldn't it? Like one of those Hollywood courtroom dramas... :)
XX Anonymous said...
What is the secret to your literary talent for juxtaposing upper and lower cases around a mesmeric collage of silver-tongued mots justes, Furor? XX
Somehow... I do not know exactly why, but SOMEHOW I like that.
I must be feeling charitable today.
Fahrenheit211 said...
Looks like yet another case of one law for the average citizen and quite another for the bearded savage.
On a similar note: I've heard (sadly curently unsubstantiated) rumours that traffic wardens in the delightful increasingly Islamicly dominated Newham Council in East London, are using the DVLA computer linked hand held terminals to book those with English sounding names for parking offences whilst letting those 'imports' get away with said offences. If anyone can corroborate these rumours I'll buy them a drink. FYI Newham is also one of those councils who are refusing to state how many of their council properties are occupied by 'imports'.
".. Newham is also one of those councils who are refusing to state how many of their council properties are occupied by 'imports'.."
It must be a hefty percentage!
It is sadly a hefty percentage. So much so that a friend who lives there was amazed that an English person was given a council property.
Newham being a port area was always a mixed area, but apparantly Islam is becoming more and more dominant. Personally I reckon that Newham will be one of the next places to be the subject of an Islamic Grooming Gang enquiry, and I would not be surprised if such attacks are being covered up there.
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This is the second installment of blogs related to ENERGY STAR's "Rule Your Attic!" outreach campaign encouraging homeowners to properly insulate their attics to reduce energy use, decrease utility bills, and increase comfort this heating season.
Get several estimates from contractors (know the square footage of your attic).
Make sure the contractor is licensed and insured in your state.
Ask if the crew chief is certified to do insulation work.
Ask how the contractor will keep your house clean during the work.
Make sure the contractor understands you want attic holes and gaps sealed before any insulation is added. If they do not agree to "seal before insulating," call another contractor!
You may find local pre-screened, trained, and certified contractors available through the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program. These programs are run by local utilities or State Energy Offices and are a great place to start looking for contractors to help you with your project.
Contractors should seal air leaks in the attic floor before adding insulation. It's much easier to seal first to ensure you get the full performance out of your insulation.
If you have air ducts in the attic, make sure contractors do not step on or damage them.
Burying any ducts on the floor in insulation is okay to do – it can even improve efficiency. Just make sure the ducts are well sealed first.
Unless your old insulation is wet, moldy, smelly, or contains animal waste, contractors can just add new insulation on top. It is usually not necessary to remove existing insulation.
Most contractors use blown-in, loose fill insulation for attic floors, which is quick and easy to install with the right equipment. Typical materials include fiberglass or cellulose – both contain some recycled content (glass or ground up paper) and are inexpensive and safe. If traditional insulation rolls are used for the attic floor instead, be sure that it is "unfaced" (no foil or paper backing needed) so moisture does not get trapped.
Any project estimate should also include installing insulation baffles (rafter vents). This ensures that as you add insulation, soffit vents (which allow outside air to enter the attic) are not blocked and your attic has proper air flow.
Make sure your contractor seals attic air leaks before adding insulation.
If you have older recessed light fixtures (can lights) that stick up into the attic floor, the contractor should cover and seal them before installing insulation using specially designed covers that are available at most home improvement stores.
Contractors should also seal the chase (hole) in the attic around the plumbing vent pipe.
It's also important to weather strip and insulate the attic hatch or door. There are several off-the-shelf products available for standard-sized openings.
EPA recommends having a professional contractor conduct combustion safety testing before and after any air sealing as this might affect the drafting of any combustion (oil or gas) appliances in the house.
Finally, tell the contractor that you expect documentation at the end of the job to show how much insulation has been added and what the new insulation R-value is for your attic. When it's done, take a picture and compare it to the pictures you took earlier to see the improvement. Post your before and after pictures on ENERGY STAR's "Rule Your Attic!" Pinterest board. Then, you can sit back and enjoy the cooler weather knowing your home is more comfortable and energy efficient.
For more information on deciding to DIY or hire a contractor, watch the second video in our "Rule Your Attic!" video series.
About the Author: Doug Anderson is an ENERGY STAR Project Manager and has been with EPA for 14 years. He works on issues related to the home envelope, including sealing and insulation products and energy-efficient residential windows.
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Homeowners throughout the U.S. are starting to wake up to frost on the grass and furnaces or boilers running full blast. Cold weather is here! Now is the time to do a quick, simple check of your attic insulation levels to save money on energy bills and be more comfortable this winter. We call checking your attic insulation level: RULE YOUR ATTIC!
Reach out and stick the ruler into the insulation and measure the depth in inches. Jot down the number or take a picture with your cell phone to record the number.
If you live in a Northern State and have less than 16-18 inches of insulation you are below the recommended levels.
If you live in a Southern State and have less than 12-14 inches of insulation you are below the recommended levels.
In the map above, zones 4-8 are considered Northern, zones 2-3 are Southern.
Now, if your levels are good, relax and have a cup of hot cider. If you are below the recommended levels, don't sweat it. It's not too late to make an improvement and lower your annual energy bills by up to 10% by sealing air leaks and adding insulation to your home.
From now through November 26, post a picture or short video of your attic floor insulation using the hashtag #RuleYourAttic and include @ENERGYSTAR in your post. ENERGY STAR experts will then provide feedback on how to improve your attic insulation. For more information visit www.energystar.gov/ruleyourattic. To learn how to measure your attic insulation level watch our short video. If you haven't already followed us, check out the ENERGY STAR Twitter page.
Now, the next question is: should you do it yourself or hire a contractor? We have helpful information whatever you decide to do.
Even when the temperature goes up, your utility bills can still stay low. With help from ENERGY STAR you can keep your cool, tame those bills, and help fight climate change. The secret is to keep your cooling system from working too hard. Discover these Top 5 Ways to Chill Out with ENERGY STAR, so that you and your cooling system can both enjoy the summer!
Take advantage of shades, blinds, curtains, awnings and even trees to keep the sun out during the day, especially on the south and west side of your house. If you are upgrading your windows, consider ENERGY STAR certified windows, which will keep even more heat out. Find and seal leaks (the biggest ones are in your attic and basement) – this will also help reduce humidity and keep out pests and pollen. Consider adding attic insulation so less heat radiates down into your house from your hot attic. Sealing air leaks and improving your home's insulation could save you up to $200 a year in cooling/heating costs (or about 10 percent of your annual energy bill). Finally, if you're replacing your roof, you can reduce the effects of the hot sun by installing ENERGY STAR certified roof products.
You're paying for your AC's cool air, so don't let it leak out of your ducts before it gets to the vent and the rooms you want to cool. That's YOUR air! In most homes, 25 percent of air that flows through air conditioning ducts leaks out before it gets to you. So get a contractor to test your ducts, seal them, and insulate them so you're not paying for cool air you don't get to use. You could reduce your cooling energy bill by about 20 percent.
A simple tune up of your HVAC equipment can do wonders. Make sure you also change your air filter regularly – EPA recommends every three months at a minimum. And, if you do not have a programmable thermostat – install one and program it around your family's summer schedule. Setting the thermostat up by seven degrees when you're away from home and up by four degrees when you're asleep can save more than $180 a year.
If you raise your thermostat by only two degrees and use your ceiling fan instead, you can lower cooling costs by up to 14 percent. Use bedroom fans on those cooler summer nights when you might be able to turn off your central air conditioning and naturally cool your home for a lot less. Plus, don't forget to use your ENERGY STAR certified vent fans to get rid of that unwanted humid air in your bathroom after a shower.
If your central air conditioning unit is more than 12 years old, replacing it with an ENERGY STAR certified model could cut your cooling costs by 30 percent. In the market for a new room air conditioner? Find one that has earned the ENERGY STAR and use about 15 percent less energy. ENERGY STAR certified dehumidifiers also use 15 percent less energy than a conventional unit. One last easy tip is to change out those old, hot, incandescent bulbs with ENERGY STAR certified CFL and LED bulbs–they produce 75% less heat!
Looking for more great tips? Head to www.energystar.gov/cooling.
About the Author: Brittney Gordon-Williams works on the ENERGY STAR communication's team. Her summer cooling project will involve trying out ENERGY STAR certified LEDs in her new home.
How Does Your Home Compare to Your Neighbor's?
It's springtime! Now that the dark, cold days of winter are gone, it's time to do things to tidy up the outside of your home. After all, who wants to be the "messy" house in the neighborhood? Now is also the perfect time to tidy up your home's energy efficiency, especially compared to your neighbors' homes. After all, who wants to have the highest utility bill in the neighborhood? Plus, reducing our energy consumption at home helps fight climate change since using energy means having to produce energy, which typically involves the burning of fossil fuels that generate greenhouse gases and cause climate change.
But short of knocking on their door, how do you find out how your home's energy use compares to your neighbor's home? The ENERGY STAR program offers a free, online tool called the Home Energy Yardstick, available here. It allows you to compare your home's energy use to similar homes across the country. By entering your home's annual energy use, the number of occupants, conditioned square footage, and its ZIP code, the Yardstick computes a score between 0 and 10, indicating the relative energy consumption of your home compared to a nationally representative sample of single family homes. On the Yardstick scale, 0 is the most energy-consuming household and 10 is the least energy-consuming household. An "average" home scores a 5 on the Yardstick. So the higher the Yardstick score, the better! You can even print a certificate and brag to your neighbors if your score warrants bragging rights.
To use the Yardstick, you'll need the last 12 months of utility bills for your home. Typically you can find a 12-month usage summary on your most recent bill or through the utility's web site. It only takes about five minutes to enter the information and get a score. Some utilities provide customers with the ability to download a "Green Button" file that provides detailed information about energy usage for their home. If your utility participates in Green Button, you can simply upload your home's utility data directly into the Yardstick. To find out if your utility offers Green Button, visit: www.greenbuttondata.org. For those whose Yardstick score is less than brag-worthy, fret not. ENERGY STAR's Home Energy Advisor provides recommendations for energy-saving improvements for typical homes in your area.
Although these tools provide good insight into your energy consumption and how to reduce it, they are not meant to replace a professional's help. So if you need an expert opinion on how to improve the efficiency and comfort of your home, a good place to start is with a local Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR offers a whole-house approach to improving the efficiency and comfort of your home. A participating Home Performance contractor will evaluate your home using state-of-the-art equipment, recommend comprehensive improvements to yield the best results, and help you get the work done.
So while you're doing your spring cleaning this year, take a moment and begin cleaning up your home's energy use as well.
About the Author: Brian manages communications activities for the ENERGY STAR Residential Branch, which forms voluntary partnerships to promote greater energy efficiency in new and existing homes. He enjoys trying to improve the energy efficiency of his own home when he's not busy keeping up with his two kids.
LED lighting prices are coming down and are now usually between $10 and $25 dollars each. And, in some locations there are utility incentives that drive down the price even lower. Switching over to ENERGY STAR certified LEDs is best achieved one lamp at a time. One tactic is to buy one light per month and before you know it, you've achieved your goal!
You should look for ENERGY STAR certified LED lights because these have been tested by a third-party to assure they meet a range of quality criteria. Also, pay close attention to the color temperature of the light that you are choosing. The color temperature is listed on the 'nutrition' label on the package. If you want the familiar glow of an incandescent, look for a color temperature at or below 3000 K. The good news is that everything you need to know is right on the package.
I'm an avowed energy nerd, so I've actually counted the light fixtures in my home. My home has 37 light fixtures and seven track light fixtures. Since I work in the field of energy efficiency, I am an early adopter and have changed 83 percent of the fixtures to LED lights. I have been able to find LEDs for every variety of fixtures. One interesting usage is in my stove hood which uses a Par20 lamp. Usually, this would be a poor location for LEDs because of the hot stove surface as heat is the enemy of LEDs. But, so far, the LED lamps have lasted for years.
Track light fixtures that use four 50-watt lights (MR-16) are not an energy efficient choice for lighting, but mine are rarely used, and the ones that are used more frequently are controlled by occupancy sensors. There is one track, however, that is on eight hours each day. On a recent trip to the home improvement store, I found LED replacement lamps for this fixture, but they were $30 each. To retrofit this fixture would cost more than the fixture itself, so I returned home empty handed. But, then I decided to perform the calculations and see if purchasing the LED replacement lamps would make sense. The results were astounding. Because of the amount of hours this fixture is on, the payback was about two years and I would save 550 kilowatt-hours each year! To state that another way, four LED lights eliminated my November electricity bill – forever. Needless to say, I returned to the store and made the purchase. I have a few more steps to take to be completely LED, but I only have four fluorescents left to replace. Although utility costs in my area have increased 60 percent in the last 20 years, my costs have increased only one percent because of consistent energy efficient choices!
It's amazing to realize we are at a time when our children won't know what changing a light bulb means. My kids asked me, "How long do LEDs last?" And I answered, "I'll put them in my will for you". Now, if you move to a new home, not only will you take your furniture, refrigerator, and clothes, but you'll also pack up your amazing LED lights.
About the Author: Danny Orlando is the Regional Energy Star Program manager in EPA's Atlanta office and has been promoting and implementing Energy Star both at work and at home for 21 years.
This week EPA invites you to "Do 1 Thing ENERGY STAR," by sealing and insulating your home. This blog post is the fifth in a five part series from ENERGY STAR's home envelope expert Doug Anderson about the benefits of sealing and insulating your home, and how you can get started this fall.
In the last two blogs, I talked about taking steps to seal and insulate your attic to get your home ready for the winter. Second to the attic, the next best way to prepare for chilly winter weather and start saving energy is by sealing and insulating your basement or crawlspace.
The good news is that there are many qualified contractors that can help you address these issues.
If you have decided to make this a DIY project, the first thing to do is inspect your basement or crawlspace for air leaks in common locations. Start sealing any gaps or cracks in exterior walls using long lasting, flexible, indoor/outdoor caulk for any gaps or cracks ¼ inch or less. Larger holes (more than 1/4 inch) in masonry that lead outside can be filled with spray foam-in-a-can and sealed outdoors with masonry caulk or a small amount of cement so the hole is covered and the foam is not exposed to the outdoors. Chimneys, furnace flues, water heater flues, or dryer flues can all get very hot and require metal flashing and high temperature caulk to properly seal.
Next, seal the rim joist (the wood that sits on top of the foundation wall) as described here, and finish by sealing any remaining holes and cracks to make an airtight space.
As mentioned in Blog Post#3, before and after sealing your home, have a heating and cooling technician check your combustion appliances (gas- or oil-fired furnace, water heater, and dryer) for proper venting. This is called combustion safety testing. The testing is easy, but should be done by a professional contractor who can sign-off that the systems are working properly.
Also, in certain parts of the country, sealing may trap dangerous indoor air pollutants (like radon) in your home. Visit the EPA website on radon here for more information. You can do radon testing yourself for a low cost or hire a professional contractor to conduct tests and discuss solutions if they find problems. The tests are easy and can give you peace-of-mind.
Additional information on achieving good indoor air quality and proper ventilation in your home can be found here.
Insulating basement walls yourself needs to be done carefully and with products that are designed to handle some moisture. Rigid foam boards and spray foam have been shown to work well for this application because they are less susceptible to moisture issues. For details on insulating basement walls, visit this technical document for guidance.
Before adding insulation to crawlspaces yourself, you will need to decide whether to insulate the crawlspace ceiling or the crawlspace walls. Again, in this application it is recommended that you use products that are designed to handle some moisture. For details on sealing and insulating crawlspace walls check out this technical document or this technical document for guidance.
Visit the newly updated Seal and Insulate with ENERGY STAR website for more detailed information on how to seal and insulate your basement or crawlspace.
We hope you have enjoyed EPA's five part series on how to improve your home envelope for the winter. Do 1 Thing ENERGY STAR this week! Start sealing and insulating your home and enjoy comfort and energy savings for years to come!
This week EPA invites you to "Do 1 Thing ENERGY STAR," by sealing and insulating your home. This blog post is the third in a 5 part series from ENERGY STAR's home envelope expert Doug Anderson about the benefits of sealing and insulating your home, and how you can get started this fall.
In yesterday's blog, we covered how to check your home's insulation levels and how to look for air leaks. We also covered how to use ENERGY STAR resources to help choose and prioritize your sealing and insulation projects.
To make the largest impact on your utility bill and comfort, you will want to start with the attic. ENERGY STAR recommends that you always seal the attic first before adding any insulation.
Air sealing the attic: Do it yourself or hire a contractor?
Air sealing the attic is generally a challenging do-it-yourself (DIY) project, but can be well worth the savings in labor costs. If your attic is accessible and not too difficult to move around in, you don't mind getting a bit dirty, and you enjoy tackling bigger home improvement projects, attic air sealing may be a good DIY project for you.
Even if you are not comfortable taking on this project yourself, don't let that stop you – there are many qualified contractors who can do the job for you.
If you have decided to do it yourself, you will want to start by identifying the locations of leaks, which was covered in the last blog.
Once you have found the leaks, they can be sealed using a variety of materials. To seal the larger leaks use unfaced fiberglass insulation stuffed into plastic bags, rigid board insulation, a piece of drywall, or expanding spray foam in-a-can. In some cases, you will need to use metal (such as aluminum) flashing and high temperature caulk to seal holes or gaps near areas that can get hot (such as near chimneys, furnace flues, or water heater flues). Then, seal smaller holes and cracks (under a ¼ inch) with long-lasting, flexible indoor/outdoor caulk like silicone or acrylic latex.
After making home improvements that result in a tighter house, there can be an increased opportunity for carbon monoxide (CO) to build up if your gas- or oil-burning appliances are not venting properly. Have your heating and cooling technician check your combustion appliances (gas- or oil-fired furnace, water heater, and dryer) for proper venting. This testing is called combustion safety testing. The testing is easy, but should be done by professional contractor who can sign-off that the systems are OK.
Also, in certain parts of the country, sealing may also trap dangerous indoor air pollutants (like radon) in your home. To see if you live in these areas or if you just want to learn more about radon, check out the EPA website here. You can test for radon yourself for a low cost, or hire a professional contractor to conduct tests and discuss solutions if they find problems. The tests are easy and can give you peace-of-mind.
For more detailed instructions on how to identify and seal air leaks in the attic and throughout the home, visit the Seal and Insulate with ENERGY STAR website.
Do 1 Thing ENERGY STAR this week. Start sealing attic air leaks to unlock the savings in your attic!


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Metro honors Leilia Bailey, trailblazer for women in transportation
by Anna Chen , March 24, 2015
Metro Board Member Jackie Dupont-Walker, Metro CEO Art Leahy, Honoree Leilia Bailey and others of the Metro family gather for the plaque dedication ceremony. Photo: Luis Inzunza/Metro
Metro held a plaque dedication ceremony today at the Arthur Winston Division 5 bus maintenance facility for Leilia Bailey, a trailblazer for women in transportation.
Ms. Bailey started her career at Division 5 as the first female operator post-World War II. She then worked her way to become the first woman in the following positions: Division Dispatcher, Assistant Division Transportation Manager, Division Manager, Transportation Superintendent and later, Director of Transportation. Ms. Bailey's exemplary efforts were most notable in coordinating the creation and start-up of a rail operating organization that launched the Metro Blue Line in 1990, and organizing L.A. public transportation's support of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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If you want to import OST to Outlook 2019, look no further. "OST Extractor Pro" brings to you a simple interface for converting OST to PST files, so you can import the data easily to Outlook 2019 in Windows.
"Why do you need to convert the files?" you may ask.
Fair question. OST, unlike PST, is not the personal data file that you can use manually for importing data. It's short for "Offline Storage Table" and works automatically and internally with the Outlook client. When you add a new IMAP email account, the data gets downloaded to OST file and whenever you make changes in an offline mode, the client automatically syncs the changes to the servers when the connection is restored. This allows you to seamlessly work from your machine whether or not you have internet.
But the problem with OST file is, as said above, you cannot import it to Outlook 2019. In most cases, you are not supposed to do that. You are not supposed to handle OST in any way. For any tasks like backup, migration, and so on, there's PST file.
But there can be few cases where OST file is either corrupt or doesn't function the way it should. Then the data inside them can get inaccessible with Outlook and you might need to look for unconventional ways to recover it.
Among many complex and lengthy manual methods to do that, the one that many experienced users would recommend is by converting it to PST. With the help of converters tools from third-parties, you can convert the data from OST files into new PST files that can easily be imported to Outlook 2019.
Note that this applies to previous Outlook versions as well, not just 2019. Because Windows Outlook has been using OST and PST since it was first launched with the same functions and uses. So, if you haven't yet upgraded Outlook to the latest 2019 edition, this post about importing OST to Outlook 2019 by converting it to PST file still applies to you.
But the big question remains: how to convert these content-rich data files of Outlook in a way that is both quick and accurate? Some tools that are available on the internet look fine on the surface but often are missing one or more essential aspects that could be troubling.
For instance, there are many tools that offer quick OST to PST conversion but can be hard to use with their non-user-friendly interfaces. Some of them don't have the critical "Options" necessary to allow for personal control, as every case is slightly different from the others.
That's what "OST Extractor Pro" gets right in a near perfect manner. It's not just simple to use but holds advanced "options" and support for large-scale conversion as well. "OST Extractor Pro" has no weak links that could hold users from getting the precise output, i.e., importing OST to Outlook 2019.
Precisely, we mean that email files like these are complex and content-rich. To perform a task like this, it's of utmost importance that the tool handling them doesn't overlook data elements or result in some form of data loss or damage the fidelity of your emails. "OST Extractor Pro" has multilayered and dedicated algorithms ensuring clean and detailed processing of everything. From Unicode text to algorithms to images to headers and more!
You don't have to take our word for it. Click the link here to get the trial setup and install it. It works for ten items per folder per OST file, but allows you to thoroughly check out other features, interface, and the overall execution with your specific files.
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Born in Zimbabwe, Cosnett studied acting at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. After spending some time in theatre productions, Cosnett got his first break in the television series "Forensic Investigators." Additional television credits include recurring roles on "Quantico" as Elias Harper, "The Vampire Diaries" as Dr. Wes Maxfield, "The Young Inventors" and "Headland." Cosnett made guest appearances on such television series as "Castle", "Continuing Fred" and "East West 101." On the big screen, Cosnett can next be seen in the feature film "Skybound." Additional film credits include "The Timing of Love," "The Bet," "The Neighbor," "Prejudice" and "Langehill Farm."
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TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- Kidney tumors just got a little easier to cure.
A treatment called radiofrequency ablation zaps kidney cancers with electrical currents, causing the tumors to disintegrate without the need for surgery, a new study says.
"It's very promising for small tumors and tumors growing outside of the kidney," says Dr. Debra Gervais, director of Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "It's a little more problematic if the tumors are larger or close to a vital structure or organ."
Gervais and her colleagues tried the technique on 42 relatively small, cancerous tumors in 34 patients. The tumors, which ranged in size from 1 centimeter to 9 centimeters, had not metastasized -- or spread -- to other organs.
The researchers were able to eliminate 36 of the tumors completely, including all those, regardless of size, located on the surface of the kidney.
Larger tumors (3 centimeters or bigger) deep inside the kidney were more difficult to treat. The researchers were able to eliminate about half of them.
Two of the 11 larger, centrally located tumors were eliminated in a single session. Three others were eliminated with only one additional visit.
The study, the most extensive to date on radiofrequency ablation and kidney cancer, appears in the February issue of Radiology.
After three and a half years, no one in the study had a recurrence of kidney cancer.
"It's a very promising application of this technology," says Dr. Bradford Wood, an interventional radiologist at the National Institutes of Health who was involved with some of the earliest studies on radiofrequency ablation and cancer.
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be approximately 31,900 new cases of kidney cancer in the United States in 2003. The five-year survival rate for people diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma is approximately 60 percent.
The current standard treatment is surgical removal of the kidney, Gervais says.
In radiofrequency ablation, an insulated needle is inserted into the tumor mass, using a CT scan, ultrasound or other imaging technique to guide it.
An electrical current from the needle heats up and burns the cancer tumor, turning it into a mass of dead scar tissue, says Gervais, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School.
For that reason, radiofrequency ablation can't be used to treat all cancers, Gervais says. Doctors have to be very careful not to damage surrounding organs or tissues.
The insulating fat surrounding the kidney allows high temperature ablation on tumors protruding from the kidney. Tumors deep inside the kidney are more difficult to eliminate because ablation temperatures must be controlled to avoid damaging the rest of the kidney, she says.
For now, Gervais limits radiofrequency ablation to patients who aren't good candidates for surgery because of kidney disease, or because they only have one functioning kidney.
Doctors are experimenting with radiofrequency ablation on other types of cancers.
The procedure was first used in the 1980s on benign, painful bone tumors, Gervais says.
The technique is also used on some liver cancers, lung cancer and to treat a type of heart arrhythmia.
Wood says he has used radiofrequency ablation on tumors from "the neck to the thigh."
One newer use of the technique is to relieve pain in people who are dying from cancer, Wood says. Cancerous tumors, as they grow, can push on other structures of the body, causing pain.
In some cases, he can use radiofrequency ablation to reduce the size of the tumor, easing the discomfort.
For example, he and his colleagues used the technique in a woman who had a large tumor in the wall of her pelvis that was causing her extreme pain and forcing her to urinate every hour.
"She only lived another nine months, but reducing the size of the tumor allowed her to get off much of her pain medication and enjoy the last months with her family," Wood says.
Read more about radiofrequency ablation and its uses at the National Institutes of Health. The American Cancer Society has information about kidney cancer.


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Where Are You Now, My Son? is an album by Joan Baez, released in early 1973. One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972. Included on the recording are the voices of Barry Romo, Michael Allen and human rights attorney Telford Taylor, with whom Baez made her famous 1972 visit to North Vietnam. The album's other side, featuring songs, written by Baez, Mimi Fariña and Hoyt Axton, was recorded in Nashville in January 1973.
Now that the war's being won Where are you now, my son? The siren gives a running break to those who live in town Take the children and the blankets to the concrete underground Sometimes we'd sing and joke and paint bright pictures on the wall And wonder if we would die well and if we'd loved at all. The helmetless defiant ones sit on the curb and stare At tracers flashing through the sky and planes bursting in air But way out in the villages no warning comes before a blast That means a sleeping child will never make it to the door
According to Charles J. Fuss in Joan Baez: A Bio-Bibliography, Baez herself referred to the resulting project as a record company's nightmare. Where Are You Now, My Son?", the title track of the album, runs to twenty-two minutes, taking up the whole of side one. It is more than a song, is spoken as well as sung, and includes actual recordings of the war, from the massive Christmas bombing raids on Hanoi. It was produced by Baez and Norbert Putnam. According to Fuss, Billboard described the title track as "a frighteningly uncomfortable poem-narrative".
Where Are You Now, My Son? er eit album av Joan Baez, gjeve ut tidleg i 1973. Den eine sida på albumet inneheld innspelingar Baez gjorde under eit amerikansk bombeåtak mot Hanoi jula 1972. Her kan ein høyre stemmene til Barry Romo, Michael Allen og ten Telford Taylor, som Baez vitja Nord-Vietnam med i 1972. Den andre sida av albumet inneheld songar skrivne av Baez, Mimi Fariña og Hoyt Axton. Desse vart spelt inn i Nashville i januar 1973.
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A2 Less Than The Song
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Photography By – Barry Romo
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Today at Computex 2017, Dell revealed two new all-in-ones (AIO) and a new gaming desktop to round out its popular Inspiron PC product line. Available starting today on Dell.com and at retailers in China including JD.com, and worldwide in the coming weeks, Dell's new line-up includes the Inspiron 27 7000 All-in-One (AIO), the Inspiron 24 5000 All-in-One (AIO) and the new Inspiron Gaming Desktop -- the first gaming desktop to join Dell's expanding Inspiron Gaming line-up. Dell takes industry-leading innovation mainstream with new systems boasting firsts for the Inspiron desktop line including Dell's iconic virtually borderless InfinityEdge display and "Ready for VR" configurations capable of delivering immersive experiences through high-end VR headsets like HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
With Dell's immersive, virtually borderless InfinityEdge display technology - available for the first time on the Inspiron AIO line - Dell's new Inspiron 27 7000 AIO and Inspiron 24 5000 AIO offer a beautiful edge-to-edge viewing experience for multimedia entertainment and streaming in a sleek, compact design perfect for the home office, dorm room, living room and more.
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How Interdisciplinary Thinking Can Help You Learn More
By Saga Briggs
August 3rd, 2016 No Comments Features, Learning Strategies
Interdisciplinary thinking isn't just some educational buzzword; it's a valuable perspective defined by the ability to draw insights from multiple disciplines and apply them to your own area of focus in a way that challenges traditional notions and enriches the conversation around it. It draws bridges between the sciences and the arts, and removes barriers between disciplines that might otherwise inform and enhance one another. In a professional climate that celebrates innovation, open-mindedness, and creativity, interdisciplinary thinking is becoming a highly necessary and frequently sought-out skill. It's time to give it the place it deserves in the classroom.
Let's take a closer look at why it's time to prioritise it, as well as how experts are currently defining and using it, below.
Why Is Interdisciplinary Thinking Important?
In 2008, Fran Simmons, an English teacher at New Dorp High School in New York—at that time one of the lowest-performing secondary institutions in the nation—devised a simple test for her students in an effort to keep district officials from pulling the plug. First, she asked her freshman class to read Of Mice and Men. Then, using information from the novel, she asked them to answer the following prompt in a single sentence:
"Although George…"
She was looking for a sentence like the following: "Although George worked very hard, he could not attain the American Dream."
Some students wrote passable sentences, but many could not manage to finish the line. More than a few wrote the following:
"Although George and Lenny were friends."
At this point, Simmons said in an interview with Peg Tyre of Atlantic Monthly, a light bulb went on in her head: these 14-and-15-year-olds didn't know how to use some basic parts of speech. With such grammatical gaps, it was a wonder they learned as much as they did. "Yes, they could read simple sentences," but works like the Gettysburg Address were beyond them, and not because they were too lazy to look up words they didn't know—because "they were missing a crucial understanding of how language works. They didn't understand that the key information in a sentence doesn't always come at the beginning of that sentence."
The solution New Dorp instructors came up with was to foster interdisciplinary thinking.
By fall 2009, nearly every instructional hour except for math class was dedicated to teaching essay writing along with a particular subject. So in chemistry class in the winter of 2010, those same students who wrote "Although George and Lenny were friends" were required to complete worksheets describing the properties of hydrogen and oxygen with subordinating clauses like "although":
"Although hydrogen is explosive and oxygen supports combustion," one student wrote, "a compound of them puts out fires."
"Unless hydrogen and oxygen form a compound, they are explosive and dangerous," wrote another.
"If hydrogen and oxygen form a compound, they lose their original properties of being explosive and supporting combustion."
Once students began understanding the mechanics of the English language, they began understanding the language of chemistry, social studies, history, physics. By the time they were sophomores, the students who had begun receiving interdisciplinary writing instruction as freshmen were already scoring higher on exams than any previous New Dorp class. Pass rates for the English Regents, for example, bounced from 67 percent in June 2009 to 89 percent in 2011; for the global-history exam, pass rates rose from 64 to 75 percent. The number of kids enrolling in college-prep courses shot up from 148 students in 2006 to 412 students in 2012. The graduation rate quickly rose to 80 percent, a staggering improvement over the 63 percent figure that prevailed before the new instruction began.
The New Dorp story is just one example of how powerful interdisciplinary thinking (and teaching) can be. And it's not new. Educators and researchers have been singing its praises for decades. It's time to listen up and see if we can't use their findings to help more students fulfill their educational potential.
What Does Interdisciplinary Thinking Look Like?
Allen Repko (2009), Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program for the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington, has identified four cognitive abilities that illustrate some of the benefits of interdisciplinary thinking:
1. Perspective-taking
"This refers to the capacity to understand multiple viewpoints on a given topic, including an appreciation of the differences between disciplines and especially their perspectives on how to approach a problem and their rules of evidence."
2. Development of structural knowledge
"This is composed of two elements: declarative knowledge (i.e., factual information) and procedural knowledge (i.e., process-based information), which are needed to solve complex problems."
3. Integration of conflicting insights from alternative disciplines
"When ideas from a variety of disciplines are embraced while investigating an issue, alternative perspectives and predictions often arise. The intellectual challenge is to find ways to account for these, which entails careful and creative thinking rather than reverting to a single disciplinary explanation."
4. Interdisciplinary Understanding
"This entails seeing an issue from an array of perspectives and recognising how each of the alternative approaches influences one another."
As part of the Harvard Interdisciplinary Studies Project in Liberal Education, Veronica Boix-Mansilla recommends a few "core forms of integration":
1. Aesthetic synthesis: Student examines a scientific, historical, social, problem in depth and distill its meaning or significance in a metaphor or work of art (e.g. historical monument).
2. Crossover tool: A particular concept, instrument, or skill (e.g. close observation, negative space drawing) is applied in a variety of disciplinary contexts (biological drawings, architecture, film) resulting in a deeper understanding of tool and context of application itself.
3. Resonance: A particular concept is explored (e.g. suffering, justice) in multiple disciplinary contexts (a work of art, a novel, a memoir) thereby extending the meaning of the concept to embrace nuances, detail, and richness in associations (often used in the humanities).
4. Complex explanation: An explanation is built on multiple causes stemming from various disciplines (e.g., global warming).
5. Pragmatic solution: A practical problem is solved (or a product developed) by the inclusion of one or more new disciplinary perspectives (e.g., technologically augmented musical instruments).
6. Embedding: Elements in one discipline are placed in broader historical social or cultural contexts (e.g., the history of Relativity).
7. Embodying: A particular example or case is seen as a microcosm of various disciplinary connections (case studies on global production).
Now that we've heard how interdisciplinary thinking works in theory, let's examine how it might be applied in a real-life classroom setting.
How to Encourage Interdisciplinary Thinking
Educators at Carleton College in Minnesota have come up with a few recommendations for teachers interested in helping students (and themselves) adopt interdisciplinary thinking:
1. Become sufficiently knowledgeable
"Read introductory level material on topics to be covered from related disciplines. Talk to colleagues in related disciplines about concepts you will discuss in class to instill confidence that you have a clear understanding of the fundamental ideas."
2. Find the appropriate level of interdisciplinary complexity
"Begin with a topic where basic principles from another discipline are sufficient to offer a viable interdisciplinary examination of the topic under consideration. If students are comfortable with this level of analysis, selectively introduce one or more desired additional concepts, and monitor student understanding."
3. Convince students that interdisciplinary thinking is worthwhile
"During class conversation and in assignments ask students to identify insight they would have missed if they had engaged in a discipline specific investigation of the topic and if the gain is substantial enough to warrant an interdisciplinary examination."
4. Avoid polarity
"Incorporate insights from other disciplines that you believe are well suited to enrich student understanding of the topic so that students clearly see that the instructor believes this form of integration is valuable."
5. Offer a balanced examination
"Make a conscious effort to present insights from each discipline in a non-hierarchical manner, with the likely exception of choosing one discipline (usually that of the instructor) as the base from which to begin the analysis."
6. Promote the synthesis of ideas
"After modeling interdisciplinary thinking for students, especially how to synthesize and integrate insights from multiple disciplines, it is essential that the instructor ask the students to attempt this activity when new problems are addressed."
7. Do not intervene too quickly
"Let the students grapple with how to integrate and offer a range of ideas and approaches to reach this end. Consider adopting small group activities to allow students to engage in cooperative learning to become more proficient in integrating insights from a host of disciplines."
8. Ask open-ended questions
Ask students questions that "require them to broach synthesis and integration. Moreover, ask them to identify areas of conflict and cohesion across disciplines. Do not be afraid to follow reasonable pathways, if they turn out to be barren that is part of the way in which students will learn how to integrate."
9. Summarise often
"Begin with the notions that each discipline in isolation would offer. Then identify the potential gains from synthesis and integration, and clarify the options on the table to foster integration."
10. Have students work in groups.
"Collaborative forms of learning can be used to promote development of interdisciplinary analysis skills, such as breaking into groups in class to work on ways to approach issues of concern in an interdisciplinary fashion. Student groups can bring their work back to the larger group for refinement."
In addition to these 10 tips, the team at Carleton advises that instructors "start with a topic in which you are already highly knowledgeable about how other disciplines address the issue and have a clear sense of how to synthesise and integrate. This will build your confidence and allow you to more effectively gauge how students respond." Be sure, as well, to "allocate sufficient time for interdisciplinary investigations if the methodology is being used for a portion of the class. Be flexible or prepared to cover more or less material in a discipline specific manner based on how the interdisciplinary exercise progresses."
Feeling ready to start integrating? Check out the following studies for a bit more inspiration:
Collaboration, interdisciplinary thinking, and communication: new approaches to K–12 ecology education: https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/140130/full
Interdisciplinary Explorations: Promoting Critical Thinking via Problem-Based Learning in an Advanced Biochemistry Class: https://www.pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00378
Research and Teaching: Toward Interdisciplinary Perspectives–Using Osmotic Pressure as an Example for Analysing Textbook Explanations: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1093977
Students' attitudes towards interdisciplinary education: a course on interdisciplinary aspects of science and engineering education: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03043797.2016.1158789
Constructively aligned teaching and learning in higher education in engineering: what do students perceive as contributing to the learning of interdisciplinary thinking? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03043797.2014.987647
About Saga Briggs
Saga Briggs is an author at InformED. You can follow her on Twitter@sagamilena or read more of her writing here.


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