I think I know why Earthquakes and Tsunamis occur

I played cricket when I was younger and I remember how the Pakistani pace bowlers tamper with the ball to make the ball swing more in the air.
I feel the same now; the western civilization has been tampering with the earth, building skyscrapers. Till date there are 200 such huge buildings built from 1953 to 2010, the height ranging from 828meters or 2716 feet to 239 meters or 784 feet.
They have 162 floors to 41 floors, this of course is a tremendous Herculean task the human beings have achieved but at what cost? Upsetting the equilibrium of the entire globe.
We all know that the Earth rotates on its axis at the speed of 1674km per hr or 1040 miles per hour and simultaneously travelling at the speed of 66660 miles per hr or107278kms per hr. I am just trying to impress my readers with all these numbers and trying to prove that this speed is lot faster than Imran Khan’s bowling.
I think it makes a lot of sense to relate nature’s disasters - Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Global warming etc etc. to this globe tampering in the name of civilization.
This awesome earth is tampered and trampled upon by shifting material from one place to another. Steel is made from iron ore transported from some place to another and made into steel and used in someplace else. For cement, lime is mined in some place sent to the factory in some other place and the finished cement is used in huge quantities for these skyscrapers and imagine millions of barrels of oil being pumped out everyday. It really makes me think when an object in motion is being altered so much will it not swing out of proportion. These activities of shifting tectonic plates, erupting volcanoes and towering tsunamis cause all the natural disasters….Howzatt.
In this context I remember the story from my Sunday school days about the construction of Tower of Babel and when it was soaring into heaven, God himself had to stop the construction by bringing in new languages whereby people couldn’t understand each other and there was so much confusion. For some people this writing might sound like I am babbling but I dare to and like to think from outside the square or should I say sphere?

E.N.Moses
15/03/2011

ISLL Follow up afternoon 2009

June 25th we had a small engaged group of participants return for an afternoon. We spent just over an hour in very directed and thoughful group work viewing a video called 'The School Library is a mash up'. We related the points in the video to the Six Principles supporting the school library and discussed what each person could apply to their school library. The most important point made is: do one thing at a time and do it really really well!
We also spent time reading an article called 'What reading does for the mind' and discussing the implications of the research findings with regard to each school library. The following address will get you a copy of the article.
http://www.adihome.org/articles/JDI_01_02_06.pdf
The last part of the afternoon was spent discussing the ideas, questions and issues that people bought to the meeting.
Remember everyone that you can be of alot of help to each other. Use the blog, talk on the phone, email each other and visit each other.

Action Plan Template

You will find a template of the action plans in a google docs format.
This can be printed as is or to save as a word/excel document press Ctrl +A at the top of the screen and paste into new MS document.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p_JspTfLk59aFQU-mity5FQ

Course Participants

Here are the names and schools of the 2008 Introduction to School Libraries and Learning, Day2:
Alex Ludlam Alfriston College, Tracy Westall Avondale College, Rosie Curtis Bucklands Beach Intermediate, Susan Macklin Hato Petera College, Joanne Sussex Ponsonby Intermediate, Theresa Stanley Rosehill College, Laura Gordon and Sheena Pele Rosehill Intermediate, Joy Connolly Sancta Maria College, Rebecca Hanscamp Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Junior School, Ebenezer Moses Tamaki College, Cheryl McKeown Te Atatu Intermediate, Lawrence Mane Te Wharekura o Manurewa, Rina Savage Clark TKKM o Hoani Waititi, Ana Ripia TKKM o Te Raki Paewhenua, Sharda Patel Western Springs College.(Some people are not in the photo)

Course Participants

Here are the names and schools of the 2008 Introduction to School Libraries and Learning, Day 1:
Louisa Grutzmacher Baverstock Oaks, Susan Southern and Nicole Early Chaucer, Elizabeth Ross-Collier and Leanne Neilson Clayton Park, Kay Shetty Dawson, Sharon Wilson and Fiona Yamamoto Ellerslie, Donna Warrington Glendene, Ann McKeown and Karen Lealiifano Holy Cross Henderson, Rhonda Mickelborough Kelston Intermediate, Fiona Evans Meadowbank, Victoria Brown Mt Eden Normal, Susan McKegg Orakei, Rachael Alizadeh Owairaka District, Brigid Mulrennan and Sherryl Compton Papatoeotoe East, Amanda Cumming Pomaria Road, Denise Job and Karen An Royal Road, Barbara Lowther St Joseph's Grey Lynn, June Jarka St Joseph's Onehunga, Trish Mohan-Druce Swanson, Heather Manning and Sarah Joliffe Warkworth (Some people are not in the photo)

Day 4 Troubleshooting

Library issues

Teachers removing books from the library without scanning them first. Although this is done with the best intentions it is hard to keep track of our library resources.