Study VS. Blog

Today I bid on not particularly fashion-related photos - but the pictures (which are also taken here and now) illustrating another great job in my everyday life. My studio. I often mention my study here on the blog and the reason is probably that the study in no way linked to the blog. I read dentistry at the University of Copenhagen ie Dentist training.

It's really two different worlds I stand up to every day. In the morning, the hair flung up into a bun, and I run mostly around in my white coat Panum - Later reports the great events, and kittelen being substituted with rivet-jackets, camel coats .. etc. Sometimes there is overlap - and then I have to prioritize - which depends a lot of subjects and of course how much the event appeals to me. I often get questions like: "How do you make it work?", "Are you dropped out?" And "WTF Lida, how do you have time to work and Zumba and blog? Do you sleep at all? "Yes I sleep and I get 7 hours of sleep every night - but I will admit that I right now do not read as much as I should.

I am the type who 'take it as it comes' without lazy it too much - Unlike high school where I was totally striving and probably stressful to deal with at times haha ​​.... It is very important for me to reach all the other good things in life next to my study, so I can remember back in the study as the Fed and not only recalled reading room and dry lectures. Some people prefer to have a few things in their lives - I'm the type who MUST deal with 100 things at once - otherwise bored I am! Anyway what I wanted with this post was enough just to give you an insight into my everyday life. Now I'll throw biochemistry book down - Time to get blogger hat - Sandra is coming, OOTD be shot and later Hunkemöller event. Adios!

Study When You are A Mom

Several people have asked me to share my thoughts about studying when you are mother - and I do so with pleasure!
It is fantastic! It is freedom and flexibility, and I enjoy it to the full.

It was assumed that I am longer in my studio, but that's how I started, when Augusta was 9 months old, and I had the first day of school shortly after she had first day of kindergarten, so I came a little later "started" when I in over four years had a beautiful position as a teaching assistant at a nursery.

I read the teacher training college and although this has been criticized academy more, then everyone who is on this training well well bite the bullet and recognize that words are not sitting at the school from 8-16 every day. However, it should prove a lot of study activity, but if you are reading recognition theories at the school, one Tuesday. 11, or Saturday. 22 Teachers are the total indifferent.

The managing his time obviously requires some self-discipline, but it also provides room for that one can organize his time to such a degree that one can often deliver her baby fairly late and pick up fairly early.
My boyfriend had maternity when Augusta was run into the nursery and it is so only now here, eight months after her start, we must have a full-time position (part-time space is a planned out space max. 30 hours).

Augusta's "table" has until now been very privileged compared to that we deliver between 8 and 9 and downloads before 14:30. The few who have the ability to manage their time like that, and I have great understanding for the parents who have no other choice than to deliver early and pick up late, but in our family we're just lucky that we can do it ancestry headed, and prioritize it enough greatly.

I realize that reading the burden on the teacher training college is not the same as more academic courses, such as law, etc., But in every place can decide its commitment to the study, which means that I choose to read all the texts (some are only after the corresponding tuition) while I, however, not as participants in the social part of being a student. It's a choice I have made that I interact and have fun with my fellow students during lessons, but my spare time is something I primarily use my family and myself.

It is debatable whether it is a rejection of something, but I'm 25 years old and I have appointed over the horns of me, and I have become very conscious about what I benefit most from using my time. So my education is something I take for academic reasons, and not social.

The downside is so that my primary obligation is not for school, but for my daughter. As of this week, I should have presented and participated in the study with a group of other people, but I have to stay home because Augusta is sick. It is obviously very regrettable because other partly depends on my work, but how does that now even together when one is mother.
You can not always run solo runs on an education, but if I could opt out of group work, so it was definitely the opportunity I had chosen, so I should not go to feel guilty when I let other than myself behind, so to say.

On weekdays and weekends I make sure to prioritize and plan, so I read the evening (but which will also be time to talk with her boyfriend, fun and relaxation), the days off (study days) which is used to get a handle on the sexy aspects, such as vacuuming, laundry, etc., while weekends are devoted to gathering and coziness.

When she is taken to be nothing, besides dinner, arranged as we prefer to buy in and make all other practical HutteliHut when she is not there.

Seeding the city’s future conservationists with The Learning Garden

Artist and environmentalist Yasir Hussain and sustainability educator Zahra Ali have started the ‘Organic City Pakistan’ initiative, which aims to educate schoolchildren about the importance of greenery and nature. PHOTOS: COURTESY ZAHRA ALI AND YASIR HUSSAIN

At a communal level, other than household or neighbourhood gardens, there is a growing focus now on developing school gardens, where their educational value can also be utilised. Such practices serve another important purpose – that of creating socially cohesive and lively spaces that promote communal bonding.

Karachi, too, is witnessing a movement for positive change. Coming to the scene is Organic City Pakistan. Co-founded by the husband-and-wife team of Yasir Hussain, an artist and environmentalist, and Zahra Ali, a writer and sustainability educator, Organic City Pakistan promotes green living through programmes such as Crops in Pots, Green Schools Programme, horticulture therapy, Art Lab and its Eco-Store.

The Green Schools Programme of Organic City is designed to be piloted in a traditional school set-up in Karachi. At the core of this programme is the Learning Garden, where activity-based gardening and environment classes following a ‘Green Curriculum’ in an organic patch and classroom leads to student certification.

The Organic City team wants to spread this initiative far and wide. As Zahra puts it, “Each school must have a learning garden where children can appreciate nature while observing and learning its divine ways to nurture life. In doing so, children get to understand the impact of the little things they do, and realise that they are global citizens.”

The first such functioning course has been hosted at a local charitable school, the Haq Foundation School. The curriculum serves the core requirements of the Green School Programme as well as hosting a seed bank for growing local heirloom seeds that can be re-harvested.

The programme kicked off last year with the active support of the school management, coordinated by the principal, Samina Asaad. In the first year, the garden had three vegetable patches — one for the students to work on, one shared by the teachers, management and working staff while in the third, the vegetables were taken by a local restaurant. The produce included kale, coloured bell peppers, broccoli, lettuce, herbs such as parsley, and five types of tomatoes, including cherry tomatoes, and the giant-sized brandy vine. For this year there are plans to add eggplant, spinach, pumpkins, carrots, mint and ginger.

The students learn to manage the whole process — from seed to harvest. They prepare the vegetable beds themselves and also learn to prepare compost. In addition to the host school, an educational outreach programme is provided to students from other schools and regular visits take place. The programme has become so popular among the city’s schools that, at a time when the law and order situation in the city was disturbed, Skype sessions took place from the learning garden to the participating schools.


Other than field engagement, every Thursday workshop sessions are held to give the students an even wider perspective, such as informing them about water conservation, chemical-free organic farming and the importance of birds and bees that are attracted to trees and vegetable patches.

The children learn to become global citizens. The practice is now spreading from the school to the homes of the students and the faculty. As Yasir puts it, “The School Farm is supplemented by what children grow at home, which helps spread the practice into the city.” There are plans to see that the programme also starts feeding into mainstream school curriculum. “Schools can easily adopt all or some part of the green curriculum. For example, a school can start composting and turn their paper waste into compost for their plants,” explains Zahra. “Children can make layers of shredded brown or white paper, pencil shavings, fruit peels from their lunch boxes, some dead leaves from the school garden and some sand. [They can then] store it in an air tight container and see how nature turns it into rich compost.”

The team of Organic City, in collaboration with the school management, has now planned to start learning classes in the school premises, open to all members of the community focused on kitchen gardening.

Children of gay parents fare well

NEW YORK — On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, new research suggests that children raised by gay parents are well adjusted and resilient, HealthDay reports.

Four new studies were scheduled to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto that set out to assess the psychological and sociological health of children raised by same-sex couples.

One study looked at the experience of 49 pre-adolescent youngsters adopted by either two-dad or two-mom households. The children’s average age was 8.

Led by Rachel Farr, a research assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, researchers interviewed both children and parents. Nearly 80 percent of the boys and girls said they felt “different” from other children because of their parents’ status, the study found. But less than 60 percent felt they had been stigmatized because of their same-sex family structure. And 70 percent appeared to respond to adversity with resilience, demonstrating an upbeat attitude about their family, the researchers found according to HealthDay.

A second study compared rates of anxiety and/or depression among 3- to 10-year-olds raised by 68 gay male couples with those of youngsters raised by 68 heterosexual parents. The team led by Robert-Jay Green, a retired professor of clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, found that all of the children were psychologically healthy.


A third study — led by Henny Bos, an assistant professor in behavioral and social sciences at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — found that 17-year-olds raised in households without a male role model were not psychologically maladjusted and appeared to engage in gender-appropriate behavior, HealthDay reports.

Who play nice do better in life with 20-year study?

Good social skills in kindergarten matter, and maybe more than strong early academics, according to a new longitudinal study that followed 5-year-olds into adulthood.

Researchers at Penn State University looked at teacher assessments of kindergarteners' social skills and tracked them through high school and into their early 20s. They found that kids with better "social competencies" at age 5 — as rated by their kindergarten teachers — were more likely to go to college and hold full-time jobs as young adults.

Children with lower social competencies, the study found, could be predicted to spend more time in special education and have more issues with substance abuse. They also were more likely to drop out of high school and go to prison before age 25.

The 20-year study has just been published in the American Journal of Pubic Health.

Mark Greenberg, study author and professor of human development and psychology at Penn State, said children who are better able to socialize with peers, exhibit more self-control and negotiate sandbox tussles without a tantrum might actually do better in life than kids who can read and write when they are 5 but have poor social skills.

"The kinds of things that we think only academics would be predictive for, turns out it's wrong," he said. "Turns out children's ability to get along with others and manage themselves well in positive ways affects both their academic outcomes and their labor market outcomes in adulthood."

As preschools increasingly focus on academics with the express goal of helping kids do better in kindergarten, the study shows that children's social emotional learning might matter more.

Greenberg's advice for parents when choosing a preschool is to not prioritize those with strong academic programs over schools that promote social-emotional learning.

Parents should look for preschools using "a social-emotional learning curriculum that has an evidence base that provides teachers with a kind of structure to build this kind of caring classroom environment," Greenberg said.

In short, young children will get the academics as they proceed through school. Learning social skills, like healthy social interactions, conflict resolution, and self-control, might be harder to learn as kids get older, yet all these competencies will positively affect kids' readiness to learn.

Seattle has the seventh-worst fans in the NFL

For the past three years, a team at Emory has used 15 years of NFL data in a quest to rank each of the 32 fanbases in the NFL. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Emory, a fine school in Atlanta, doesn’t even have a football team. This is like students from BYU writing studies about spring break or Harvard folks releasing their investigation into being cool. Regardless, the Emory researchers used a bunch of criteria — “hard data” they called it — andapplied some hardcore math/analysis to it, hoping to come up with “what team has the most avid, engaged, passionate and supportive fans.” Some of their findings:
1. DALLAS, NEW ENGLAND AND THE NEW YORK GIANTS TOP THE LIST.

This seems reasonable to me. While Emory admits that it’s hard to judge fanbases when a team is particularly good (obviously a good team will have more support than a bad team, no matter the general level of fan interest), the two NFC East teams on this list are always popular, even during down stretches. Because it’s been so long since we’ve seen the Patriots struggle, I can’t say I agree with their placement as much. Once Brady and Belichick leave, their number of fans will be greatly deflate, back to the pre-Brady and Belichick levels, when most people in Boston forgot the Patriots even existed.
2. BUFFALO, JACKSONVILLE, OAKLAND, CLEVELAND AND MIAMI ROUND OUT THE LIST.

The Dolphins as No. 32? Frankly, I find it hard to believe that any team has a worse fanbase than the Jaguars, but as long as the Jags are No. 29, I guess it’s legit. (The study says teams from Florida always are low in the rankings.) The rest of the bottom seems decent too. Maybe I was too harsh on our friends from Emory above.
3. THE JETS ARE NO. 5 AND THE TEXANS (NO. 12) ARE AHEAD OF THE BRONCOS (NO. 13), STEELERS (NO. 14) AND REDSKINS (NO. 15).

No one loves the Jets. They tolerate the Jets and watch them every Sunday because of self-hatred. Then, in those years when the Jets are good, they wait for the Jets to break their hearts because they know the Jets will do so. As for the Texans being ahead of three NFL blue bloods, come on. That’s just preposterous. A few quibbles aside (New Orleans at No. 8 is too high, Kansas City at No. 27 is way too low), I’m down with most of the rest of the list. But the Texans placement is ridiculous. Maybe I wasn’t too harsh on our friends from Emory.
4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


The 12th man, the fans of the Seattle Seahawks who have deluded themselves into thinking they’re truly a member of the franchise that won the 2013 Super Bowl and gave away the 2014 title is ranked — wait for it — No. 26 on this list. No. 26! The final verdict: Our friends from Emory did just fine on this list.

Mobile app Flinnt becoming popular as learning platform

Ahmedabad-based start-up's app allows teachers to communicate with students, parents
Ahmedabad, June 24:
In what makes the learning resource rich, easy, and interesting for school children, a WhatsApp-like mobile platform called Flinnt, allows teachers to create groups with students and share academic resources such as chapters, videos, data, and charts, among others.
Developed by a group of entrepreneurs from Ahmedabad in June 2012, Flinnt is currently being used by about 105 academic institutions across Gujarat and a few in Mumbai, Noida, Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Tirupati.
"This will act as a communication platform between students and teacher. This is a platform that allows one/ few to broadcast to many. So, content broadcast can be monitored and managed. It is a good platform to share user-generated content such as documents, videos of class-room teaching, best answer written by a student, or a graph or charts," said Tarak Yagnik, one of the four founders and a marketing expert.
The Android-based mobile app is being used for students in the K-12 segment, graduate and post-graduate. "Up to grade four, teachers send one-way communications such as reminders, announcements, homework, and activity photos directly to the parent’s phone," said Yagnik.
Once enrolled, the institute is given sign-up codes, with which teachers and students can use the app. For instance, teachers can post a document or a video on the platform, and students can comment on it and discuss it further. But unlike WhatsApp, the teachers can prevent abusive mischief by restricting students from commenting on a particular topic. The platform can also operate on a desktop PC.
Currently, the company has 40,000 users of the app. "Our charges range from Rs. 5,000 per annum to Rs. 15,000 per annum for different sizes of institutions. We are targeting private institutions first as they can take faster decisions," said Harish Iyer, co-founder and CEO.
The company, which has raised around $400,000, including an Angel round from US-based investors, expects to break even this year. Going forward, it is also planning to raise about Rs. 10-12 crore from venture funds.
In the next two-three years, the company plans to cover about 8,000-10,000 institutions across the country. By this year-end the start-up plans to have a presence in 15 cities.
Customer acquisition accounts for 70 per cent of the company’s expenses, while the remaining 30 per cent goes into development and infrastructure.