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[Page 1] March 14th 1894 Dear friend Mr. Muir, Some months ago when I had the pleasure of meeting you at Mrs. John Vance Cheney’s house I heard you make a most eloquent defense of nearly all Nature’s lower creations even including the noxious rattle snake. That speech of yours gives me the courage to write to you asking your help to save the meadow larks. The markets are full of the poor plucked bodies of those beautiful songsters. (At most of the French restaurants, at present, a dish [Page 2] of larks is one of the principal entrees. Now that the closed season for quail, ducks and doves has begun, the massacre of the yellow throated meadow larks is going on. Can nothing be done to prevent this wholesale slaughter during the nesting period of the larks? I have been so wrought up over this subject that I am trying to see what can be done. I spoke to Miss Fitch, the daughter of Mr. Fitch of the Bulletin and this evening I see a fine plea for the larks in the Bulletin. I wrote to Miss Adeline Knapp who is well known as a champion of the [Page 3] defenseless lower animals and she has promised to have a series of articles in one of the great dailies of San Francisco on next Sunday, Easter morning. Everyone knows of your pure and noble reputation, of your love for the beautiful, for nature and for California and so I beg of you, will you not help in the cause? A few words from your eloquent pen will do more for the larks than anything else possible. Will you write a few words in favor of our songsters, either in one of the papers or for Miss Knapp to insert in the [Page 4] big article for next Sunday, March 25th? You could send it to me or I would forward it to Miss Knapp. Could you advise us what further steps to take to arouse the public interest in saving the larks? Would the Sierra Club do anything to prevent the extermination of our California songsters? You know, singing birds are all too rare in California. In a month’s time I believer there will be a sportsmen’s convention to revise the fame laws for the coming legislature. Each county is to send two delegates and twenty delegates [Page 5] will be chosen for the state at large. Can not something be done to interest this convention in including the larks among the protected birds? If I knew the names of the leading sportsmen in the City, I think I would be brave enough to go to them myself to ask their interest in the larks. The Meadow lark is an insect feeding bird and therefore the farmer should wish for its protection. I believe the Horticultural Society, of which my friend Mr. Ellwood Cooper is president, may help in this matter, so will the Academy of Sciences, [Page 6] and possibly the State Floral Society. I hope the Sierra Club will give its aid as its object is to protect and preserve the beauties of our Sierra, etc. Dear friend, will you help us? Your name is so connected with all that is beautiful in California, with our mountains and trees and flowers, that my first thoughts turn to you in asking for this help. The beautiful yellow breasted larks have lifted up their voices so many times for us that it is for us now to lift up our voices to save them, our benefactors [Page 7] from complete extermination. If you can think of anything that is in our power to do in this matter please let us know it. Sincerely your friend Catherine H Hittell 808 Turk St P.S. Miss Knapp lives at 568 12th St, Oakland. You know my father, the T. H. Hittell whom you have often met at Mr. W. Keiths. I mention this if you should have happened to forget meeting me at Mr. Keith’s studio, at the Sierra Club and at Mrs. J. Vance Cheney’s. I went to the [Page 8] markets this morning to see how many larks were at the poulterers and I saw several hundreds. The poulterers told me that there were not so many in the markets now as there were during the first week after the beginning of the closed season. I suppose they are being thinned out. The poulteres say, the Germans and French are particularly fond of the birds. Please pardon my addressing you and troubling you in these matters but I do love the meadow larks and I do love California and the little I can do is at my countries service. C. H. Hittell 808 Turk St

1894 Mar 14 C H Hittell to JM p1

[Page 1] March 14th 1894 Dear friend Mr. Muir, Some months ago when I had the pleasure of meeting you at Mrs. John Vance Cheney’s house I heard you make a most eloquent defense of nearly all Nature’s lower creations even including the noxious rattle snake. That speech of yours gives me the courage to write to you asking your help to save the meadow larks. The markets are full of the poor plucked bodies of those beautiful songsters. (At most of the French restaurants, at present, a dish [Page 2] of larks is one of the principal entrees. Now that the closed season for quail, ducks and doves has begun, the massacre of the yellow throated meadow larks is going on. Can nothing be done to prevent this wholesale slaughter during the nesting period of the larks? I have been so wrought up over this subject that I am trying to see what can be done. I spoke to Miss Fitch, the daughter of Mr. Fitch of the Bulletin and this evening I see a fine plea for the larks in the Bulletin. I wrote to Miss Adeline Knapp who is well known as a champion of the [Page 3] defenseless lower animals and she has promised to have a series of articles in one of the great dailies of San Francisco on next Sunday, Easter morning. Everyone knows of your pure and noble reputation, of your love for the beautiful, for nature and for California and so I beg of you, will you not help in the cause? A few words from your eloquent pen will do more for the larks than anything else possible. Will you write a few words in favor of our songsters, either in one of the papers or for Miss Knapp to insert in the [Page 4] big article for next Sunday, March 25th? You could send it to me or I would forward it to Miss Knapp. Could you advise us what further steps to take to arouse the public interest in saving the larks? Would the Sierra Club do anything to prevent the extermination of our California songsters? You know, singing birds are all too rare in California. In a month’s time I believer there will be a sportsmen’s convention to revise the fame laws for the coming legislature. Each county is to send two delegates and twenty delegates [Page 5] will be chosen for the state at large. Can not something be done to interest this convention in including the larks among the protected birds? If I knew the names of the leading sportsmen in the City, I think I would be brave enough to go to them myself to ask their interest in the larks. The Meadow lark is an insect feeding bird and therefore the farmer should wish for its protection. I believe the Horticultural Society, of which my friend Mr. Ellwood Cooper is president, may help in this matter, so will the Academy of Sciences, [Page 6] and possibly the State Floral Society. I hope the Sierra Club will give its aid as its object is to protect and preserve the beauties of our Sierra, etc. Dear friend, will you help us? Your name is so connected with all that is beautiful in California, with our mountains and trees and flowers, that my first thoughts turn to you in asking for this help. The beautiful yellow breasted larks have lifted up their voices so many times for us that it is for us now to lift up our voices to save them, our benefactors [Page 7] from complete extermination. If you can think of anything that is in our power to do in this matter please let us know it. Sincerely your friend Catherine H Hittell 808 Turk St P.S. Miss Knapp lives at 568 12th St, Oakland. You know my father, the T. H. Hittell whom you have often met at Mr. W. Keiths. I mention this if you should have happened to forget meeting me at Mr. Keith’s studio, at the Sierra Club and at Mrs. J. Vance Cheney’s. I went to the [Page 8] markets this morning to see how many larks were at the poulterers and I saw several hundreds. The poulterers told me that there were not so many in the markets now as there were during the first week after the beginning of the closed season. I suppose they are being thinned out. The poulteres say, the Germans and French are particularly fond of the birds. Please pardon my addressing you and troubling you in these matters but I do love the meadow larks and I do love California and the little I can do is at my countries service. C. H. Hittell 808 Turk St

The Functionality, Interface and Uptake of an energy saving application for mobile devices

Four focus groups involving 18 participants took part in a structured elicitation session in which they gave their views and opinions on the functionality and interface design of a possible energy saving application for mobile devices. A qualitative topical analysis of their discussions indicated a distinct expectation that the application would enable them to save money, and a preference for displaying information in a financial or cost-based format rather than in physical units. Summarising this by time period (especially day), rooms and even devices would be welcomed, as would relating consumption to a personally tailored target or baseline amount, and to normative comparisons (e.g., a typical person / household like you). Comparison of the tariffs of different energy suppliers would be a useful feature to promote initial acquisition of the app. Data entry on first use followed by use of the camera to scan codes would be acceptable. While seen as useful when mentioned, integrating meter-reading functionality into the app was not seen as a key attraction. Provision of basic energy related information for the specific devices owned would be expected by users. Technology permitting, the ability to monitor each device’s usage and to remotely control them would be welcomed – even the ability to turn on a device remotely would allow people to leave it off when away from the home. Alerts should be used with caution: where they are specifically informative and directly help the person reach goals that they recognise as beneficial, they will be acceptable, but they do run the real risk of annoying users. Games might play a useful function for users with children, who might prevent users from deleting the app if the game is attractive to them, but they seem unlikely to be a key attraction. Social networking was seen more as a way of virally spreading uptake of the app and maintaining its use within a community of users than as a way of motivating people to change behaviour. As with use of alerts, the ability to post to networking sites on behalf of users should be treated very cautiously, but allowing people to provide (or pass on) tips to each other might enhance the impact of advice suggested by the app. Any graphical representations should be simple, with complexity presented on demand by the user (‘drilling-down’). There was no consensus on bar or line charts, although dial and rainbow metaphors were well received: optionality would seem to be required here, with users able to select their preferred format. Any use of emoticons should be seen as additional to the main display of information, rather than as the central approach. Physical units such as kWh or joules should be avoided, and consumption expressed in financial terms wherever possible. There was clear awareness of the nature of thermographic images, which suggests that they could play a useful part in communicating consumption, even in simulations. Short-term financial consequences dominated the discussion in all of the groups, but there was a realisation that for some the longer-term environmental benefits of behaviour change might be worth presenting. A jaded awareness of fear-appeal visualisations (e.g., polar bears on melting icebergs) suggests that such negative approaches to the consequences of energy use would have limited effect. Positive consequences were not mentioned often (e.g., ‘saved a child in Tibet’) and might thus have more impact, through being novel and unexpected

A survey to test the story book knowledge of kindergarten children.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE TASKS FOR THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF NOGOPURO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The objective of this research study was to develop a suitable set of English tasks for the fifth grade students of Nogopuro Elementary School. Four research questions were on how: (1) the need analysis of interactive tasks was conducted, (2) the course grid of interactive tasks was organized, (3) the developed interactive tasks were presented in the material, and (4) the developed interactive tasks were being implemented, evaluated, and revised. This study was a Research and Development (R & D). The subjects of this study were the fifth grade students of Nogopuro Elementary School. The instruments used in the study were questionnaires and an observation guide. The data gathered were in the form of quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data were obtained by using the questionnaires while qualitative data were obtained by analyzing the results of the questionnaires and the observation guide. The procedure of developing tasks in this study consisted of eight steps (1) conducting needs analysis, (2) writing course grid, (3) developing the first draft of the interactive tasks, (4) trying out the first draft of the interactive task, (5) evaluating and revising the first draft of the interactive tasks to produce the second draft, (6) trying out the second draft of the interactive tasks, (7) evaluating and revising the second draft of the interactive tasks to produce the final draft, and (8) writing the final product of interactive tasks. Four findings are obtained. First, the fifth grade students of Nogopuro Elementary School need to improve their English. They need to develop their speaking skills. They need tasks that can provide adequate opportunities to interact with others. They need group work activities like games with familiar themes like public places, around the school, and animals. Second, the course grid of interactive tasks is based on the curriculum 2006 (the standard of competences and basic competences) and the results of the needs analysis. Third, the interactive tasks are well developed. The task components (goal, input, activities, teacher‟s role, learners‟ role, and setting) are built up in the tasks based on the course grid. Fourth, the interactive tasks meet the requirements of good and appropriate English learning tasks (The mean scores range from 4.2 to 4.7 meaning good and very good)

Employment Assistance Program Focus Group Report

The September 11th Fund, working with the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, created the Employment Assistance Program to help dislocated workers regain employment and wages lost in the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. The project consisted of eight focus groups conducted at a professional focus group facility in Manhattan between June 25 through July 9, 2003. This publication reports on the findings of those focus groups

Look Into My Eyes

Freddie Yauner, a lecturer in Design for Industry, believes that design can engage, inform and make complex concepts accessible. Through thought provoking projects and installations which have exhibited in New York, Paris and London, Freddie uses critical design to challenge convention and encourage debate. Utilising this approach, Freddie, teamed up with typographer and graphic designer Paul Robson, also from our school and Cathy John, a freelance writer to create their unique publication - Look into my Eyes. Through combined expertise Look into my Eyes was created, a book that explores the labyrinth of decisions facing MS patients from day one of their diagnosis and examines the impact each of these decisions could have on their day to day lives. Look into my Eyes was created as part of a wider programme of initiatives that use real life experiences and interaction design to place audiences firmly in the shoes of an MSer, with the aim of increasing understanding and acceptance of MS for patients, carers and health professionals alike

Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge of Algebraic Thinking and the Characteristics of the Questions Posed for Students

In this study, we explored the relationship between the strength of pre-service teachers’ algebraic thinking and the characteristics of the questions they posed during cognitive interviews that focused on probing the algebraic thinking of middle school students. We developed a performance rubric to evaluate the strength of pre-service teachers’ algebraic thinking across 130 algebra-based tasks. We used an existing coding scheme found in the literature to analyze the characteristics of the questions pre-service teachers posed during clinical interviews. We found that pre-service teachers with higher algebraic thinking abilities were able to pose probing questions that uncovered student thinking through the use of follow up questions. In comparison, pre-service teachers with lower algebraic thinking abilities asked factual questions; moving from one question to the next without posing follow up questions to probe student thinking