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POWER-Solving®: Stepping Stones to Solving Life''s Everyday Social Problems is a social emotional learning curriculum designed to teach children and adolescents to become independent problem-solvers via a hands-on, user-friendly, positive-practice, interactive approach. Through the use of child- and adolescent-friendly, engaging materials, which rely heavily on visual cues and supports, participants gain the "tools" necessary to successfully problem-solve. They are taught how to problem-solve first using their "toolbox" (i.e., the five steps of POWER-Solving®). Subsequently, they can apply this "toolbox" to various challenging social situations, which allows them to develop and enhance their social-emotional skills. The goal is for children and adolescents to learn valuable POWER-Solving® skills that they can apply to an infinite number of social situations throughout their lives. This is the French version of the Facilitator''s Guide. The materials are translated and modified from the original English version.

Hello Girls, This Journal Interior Features: Perfect size for Journal : 8.5 × 11 IN / 21.59 × 27.94 CM. 120 pages. Light Black lines. Double-sided. Non-perforated. Colourful and beautiful design. If you like this Journal, please, don''t hesitate to put a comment below. Thank you so much from all my heart ❤️

This Journal Features: Perfect size for Notebook & Journal : 8.5 × 11 IN / 21.59 × 27.94 CM. 120 pages. Light Black lines. Double-sided. Non-perforated. With a simple and an elegant design. If you like this journal, please, don''t hesitate to put a comment below. Thank you so much from all my heart ❤️

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin''s novel "A Game of Thrones", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.We don''t cover the hundreds and hundreds of character names, we focus on the central characters and central events of the story, to give you a fighting chance to understand what is going on.

The standards in this book will enhance teaching and learning. The list of the book’s contributors reads like a “Who’s Who” in the field of instructional supervision. These standards are practical, specific, and flexible, so that schools and districts can adapt them to their own contexts and goals. Each set also includes activities for professional development.

In the deep desert where only the bold dare tread lies the mysterious Lion''s Vault! Part three of the Fate of the Forebears Adventure Path, Lion''s Vault will take Players on a journey full of danger, ancient secrets, and dark mysticism. Beware, this module is not for the faint of heart! Your Players will need to solve complex puzzles and battle powerful foes from ages past. With great courage, luck, and a ton of skill, a party of heroes can learn the secrets of the ancient Narthaneen and discover the wonders within the Lion''s Vault!Lion''s Vault is an adventure module for the Pathfinder Tabletop Roleplaying Game.Within these pages you will find a mystical desert full of supernatural dangers, an ancient city of a powerfully evil civilization, and enough unique monsters to give even the bravest heroes pause. Do your Players have what it takes to overcome these challenges? There is only one way to find out!An adventure for 9th - 12th level characters. Part 3 of 6 in the Fate of the Forebears Adventure Path.

Are your players crushing your carefully constructed encounters or overcoming your mightiest villains with ease? The Total Party Kill Handbook - Volume 2 is here to remind overconfident heroes that you are a DM to be feared. Within its pages you will find encounters all types, ranging from simple 1st-level adventures to unstoppable gauntlets of death. Fully compatible with the 5th Edition of the world''s greatest roleplaying game, and ready to run on a moment''s notice, this book gives DMs the tools necessary to bring a challenging, satisfying, and extremely dangerous experience to your game table.With twenty-five encounters, scalable difficulty adjustments, and detailed tactics, you will find yourself running these devious and difficult encounters over and over again. Masterfully deliver on a balanced and challenging game session that your players will never forget. With your brains and the Handbook''s brawn, your players will be on the edge of their seats, praying for a lady luck to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.Detailed at the book''s conclusion, the Hazard Workshop awaits you - a plethora of hazards and the means to create them. This workshop for building unique and deadly environments ensures players will never call your content "easy" again. If you cackled manically at the content found within this book, you may also enjoy its predecessor - the Total Party Kill Handbook - Volume 1, similarly guaranteed to add to your game''s body count.To you players, remember - the sting of defeat makes hard-earned victory all the sweeter¿

This study applies a multi-scalar pottery analysis of 15th century assemblages to investigate northern Iroquoian childhood learning experiences in the Lower Great Lakes prior to European contact. My analysis is based on the two villages in southern Ontario: Keffer and Draper, and three villages in upstate New York: Garoga, Smith-Pagerie and Klock. I employ an ontogenetic approach that recognizes childhood perspectives and the different cognitive and physiological experiences of children as they develop. I rely on ethnographic and child development data to reconstruct past learning experiences. Through this framework, I integrate a modified approach to meshworks through a systematic study of the material interactions of social learning of community members involved with the forming, shaping, and decorating of pottery vessels. Meshworks of learning allow for the identification of the development of knowledge and skills related to a technological practice. These learning growths further included new spatial interactions in their communities, and so I conducted a spatial analysis of Keffer and Draper vessels to investigate the presence of specialized learning locales, and how spatial areas around the village were involved in learning and craft production. The results of my analysis demonstrate a learning practice that did not isolate younger potters from adult activities but relied on flexible learning that encouraged a certain level of artistic freedom with minimal adult interference that adhered to fundamental principles of potting traditions. Pottery learning did not take place in specialized learning locales, but throughout the village. Furthermore, the data indicates regional patterning in which potters in Ontario and upstate New York learned to make pottery through similar practices. I argue that during the process of making pottery, learning experiences were mediated by deeply rooted cosmologies and traditions built around maintaining balanced social relations between community members of all ages and genders in Lower Great Lakes communities.

The three Articles that comprise this Dissertation explore how free expression and judicial federalism regulate hurtful speech and promised silence. The Articles tackle torts and free speech, contracts and free speech, and a comparative variation on those two themes. Judicial federalism threads all three Articles. The first Article, Silencing State Courts, argues that the current mode of enforcing the First Amendment against state common law speech torts fails to promote cooperative judicial federalism. Second, Silence for Sale argues that state courts should free themselves from constitutional straitjackets and recognize a robust public policy of free expression that voids some nondisclosure agreements. Finally, Comparative Judicial Federalism argues that the strength of a federal free speech guarantee varies with a country''s particular species of judicial federalism. By comparing free speech and judicial federalism in the United States and Australia, it argues that Australia’s judicial federalism augments its implied freedom of political communication.

The coevolution of trust in government alongside the growth of government is an aspect of research on the latter topic that has not been explored. We consider this coevolution in the context of a political economy model and a public interest view of government growth and incorporate the role of trust in government. The negative association of the growth in government with trust in government is consistent with a political economy model of government growth, rent seeking/lobbying, trust, and productivity. Though such a model is broadly consistent with the historical data since the late 1950s, we present a more econometrically sophisticated examination of the data. In particular, we recognize the difficulties of statistical inference with non-stationary data and take the appropriate steps to deal with it. There is strong evidence that two aspects of government size - transfer payments and regulatory activity - align with the political economy model. Specifically, we find cointegration indicating the following: a negative association between trust and lobbying activity, a negative relationship between trust and each of these two measures of government, and a positive association of trust and productivity. Though other measures of government size do not produce as robust of findings, we do not find evidence of positive associations of trust and government size nor of trust and lobbying, as might be expected from a public interest view of government.

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of J.R.R. Tolkien''s almost-novel "The Silmarillion", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.Most people who think of The Silmarillion, if they think of it at all, think of it as an uncompleted work of J.R.R. Tolkien, written in pieces many years before the Lord of the Rings but never finished. It reads like a historical appendix with thick, descriptive paragraphs and relatively little dialogue.But what is it really? If you dig into it, The Silmarillion is really ELVISH MURDER PORN. It''s the story of the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of elves, and, sometimes for a little variety, the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of men. You may think it''s just a fairy tale, and that''s how fairy tales are written. But in most fairy tales the good guys aren''t slaughtered over and over. In most fairy tales nearly all the main characters do not die in spectacularly horrible deaths, which is what the Silmarillion is all about. Tolkien creates big, extended families of elves and describes how each one dies, usually in combination with humiliation and/or betrayal and/or immense frustration. I have to wonder if Tolkien conceived this as elvish murder porn, that is, entertainment for people who love to read about the suffering and death of elves, and this analysis will go through the book step by step and explore the unusual nature of it.

Star Trek: Enterprise was really the story of two different television shows. The first featured super-moral characters who could spend much of an episode talking about Malcolm Reed''s favorite food or writing letters to school children back home, still leaving time to solve an important ethical issue that was vexing the captain.After two seasons of this, the ratings did not reward the show quite as much as producers would have hoped, so Enterprise became that second, very different kind of television show. The ship was given a life or death mission, the characters became serious, and antagonists suddenly appeared. Gone were the episodes full of moral masturbation, and in every episode Captain Archer seemed to compete with himself to become even tougher than in the previous one. The third season was one long story arc, and for the most part was quite a good one.The fourth season was a mixture of the first and the third, sometimes relying on the standard morality plays, and sometimes harkening back to the action and adventure of the third season.The purpose of this book is twofold: (1) to show how the weaker episodes could have become good episodes, and (2) to show how the good episodes could have become great episodes, by analyzing the plots and characterizations in each episode.

Stargate SG-1 was two different shows in one. There were episodes where SG-1 fought the Guauld, or replicators, or the Ori, in giant battles. The show often had tremendously creative ideas about blowing up suns or travels to other galaxies or interdimensional or parallel dimension travel. Jack O''Neill''s dry wit was very funny; Samantha Carter''s expressions were very vivid; Daniel had a great wit of his own and was a good companion for Jack, and Teal''c was very funny in his own subtle way. A lot of the episodes were very exciting and well written.But there were also episodes that were not so exciting and well written, those focusing on small children, Unases, natural disasters, or "let us search warehouses on Earth" episodes, to name a few.The purpose of this book is to show how the lesser stories could have been improved, as well as how the good stories could have been even better.

The City of Sands module starts where the Domes of Ishaq-Zahur leaves off, sending the heroes from the peril of the desert tombs to the streets of the sandy metropolis, Archensheen. This 126-page adventure supports both the Pathfinder RPG and D&D 5th Edition, and will take a party of 7th level characters to 9th level over 10 to 12 sessions of play.

Have you ever wanted to write an epic fantasy novel like Game of Thrones? Well, you can. Studying George R.R. Martin''s epic Game of Thrones novels can be an intimidating task, so I have undertaken to do it for you. I have gone through the thousands of pages of the Game of Thrones novels to distill important lessons to follow, and, equally important, lessons not to follow for writing an epic work of fiction. This book is written in easy to understand prose with tips you can use to write great fiction.

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin''s novel "A Feast for Crows", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.A sampling of the questions that will be addressed:How do we know Balon Greyjoy was murdered?Why didn''t Jaime want Cersei to give him the Hand job?Why do the Ironmen call sex slaves "salt wives"?Why is Prince Doran''s gout compared to a exotic fruit?How could Margaery possibly be a virgin?Why do the Silent Sisters have private parts that are "cold and as wet as ice"?Why is it called the House of "White and Black"?Why do kings let themselves be cut by the Iron Throne?What is the symbolism of Euron''s eye patch?Why did Arys charge Areo Hotah?Why do Faceless Men have to be "no one"?Why isn''t Jaime upset that Lancel had sex with Cersei?Why did the Hound let the monks cut the balls of his horse?Why did Genna say that Tyrion, not Jaime, was Tywin''s true son?Why do the Faceless Men make Arya sell seafood?Why did Arya tell the Kindly Man she killed Dareon?Who is the younger brother who will kill Cersei?What kind of a boy takes a job to be a whipping boy?When Brienne sees a man with a giant foot long tongue, what is she really thinking about?Why do so many characters get terrible face wounds?Why is Lady Stonehenge more interesting than Catelyn Stark?

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin Book "A Storm of Swords", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.A small sampling of the questions and issues which will be addressed:Did Margaery know of the plan to have Joffrey killed?How did Jeyne Westerling seduce Robb?The real reason why Jaime''s hand was cut off.Why are Unsullied called Unsullied?Why does Melisandre say that Davos works for R''hllor?What happened to Craster''s 18 wives left behind?Do the zombies snack on Craster''s babies like Doritos?Why does R''hllor keep reviving Beric?The real reason the Hound hates knights.Why has Prince Oberyn waited so long to get justice for his murdered sister Elia?How can brainwashed Unsullied really make the choice to work for Dany?Why did Jaime give Brienne his highly valuable Valyrian sword?What was fundamentally wrong with the surprise appearance of the Small Paul Zombie?How does one become a zombie?The real reason why Tywin didn''t want Tyrion having sex with whores.

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin''s novel "A Dance With Dragons", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.We don''t cover the hundreds and hundreds of character names, we focus on the central characters and central events of the story, to give you a fighting chance to understand what is going on.A sampling of the questions which will be addressed:Does Tyrion really expect to find Shae by asking "where whores go"?How did Brown Ben Plumm expect that Tyrion would be able to pay him?Was it a good idea for Daenerys to spread the plague in Meereen?Why would Littlefinger pick Jeyne Poole to play the part of Arya?How did blind Arya know that it was the Kindly Man who had been beating her with a stick?Did Theon have his cock cut off?Why does Tyrion''s slave overseer call Tyrion his child?Why did Tyrion repeatedly rescue Jorah Mormont?Why does Martin like facial disfigurement so much?Why did Dany choose Daario to be a Yunkai hostage?Why doesn''t Theon tell Abel that Arya is really Jeyne Poole?Who killed Little Walder?Did Ramsay Bolton make Arya have sex with a dog?Why didn''t Tyrion reveal himself to Dany in the arena?Why is this book called "A Dance with Dragons?"How many people did Arya kill in this book?Why is Stannis stuck in the snow when no one else is?Why didn''t Jon Connington cut off his greyscale fingers?Why does Roose Bolton not mind if Ramsay kills his kids?

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin''s novel "A Clash of Kings", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics. It is written in an accessible way--I don''t inundate you with hundreds of character names, I focus on the essential ones.A sampling of the questions which will be addressed:Why did the Hound say it was bad luck to kill someone on their birthday?How easy is it to murder someone by getting them drunk during boar hunting?Why did Stannis switch gods?Why doesn''t Stannis cut off Salladhor Saan''s fingers?How does the raven post office system work?Why doesn''t Tyrion have Littlefinger arrested for falsely accusing him of murder?Why does the Hound like being called the Hound?Why is urinating called "making water"?Are Craster''s babies free range or cage raised before being fed to zombie diners?What does it mean when Craster''s wife "licks her lips"?Why does Theon''s sister Asha squeeze his cock repeatedly?Why did Renly offer Stannis a peach?Why does Jaime admit to Catelyn that he is Joffrey''s father?Why would Cersei order her own execution?What did Dany learn from the warlocks of Qarth?How does Cersei try to kill Tyrion?Why did the Hound cry when Sansa sang him a lame girly song?

Stargate SG-1 was two different shows in one. There were episodes where SG-1 fought the Guauld, or replicators, or the Ori, in giant battles. The show often had tremendously creative ideas about blowing up suns or travels to other galaxies or interdimensional or parallel dimension travel. Jack O''Neill''s dry wit was very funny; Samantha Carter''s expressions were very vivid; Daniel had a great wit of his own and was a good companion for Jack, and Teal''c was very funny in his own subtle way. A lot of the episodes were very exciting and well written.But there were also episodes that were not so exciting and well written, those focusing on small children, Unases, natural disasters, or "let us search warehouses on Earth" episodes, to name a few.The purpose of this book is to show how the lesser stories could have been improved, as well as how the good stories could have been even better.

The Domes of Ishaq Zahur adventure is a 5th Edition RPG module featuring challenging combat and traps, a gamut of mind-bending puzzles, a completely custom cast of NPCs and monsters, detailed backstory and plot, and guidelines detailing the best ways to run the sessions standalone or incorporate them into your ongoing campaign.

"This book provides relevant theoretical and practical frameworks and the latest findings in research and practice regarding online communities and social media as agents of social and political change. This book will be an important resource for those who study social movements and for those who participate in or advocate for or against social or political change"--

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a lot of good things going for it. Visually, it was a treat: the colorful uniforms, the sets, the spaceships, Counselor Troi in certain outfits, etc. Some of the characters like Picard and Data were very interesting. The show also had a lot of intriguing ideas about time travel, parallel dimensions, clones, robots and other classic sci-fi themes. But some of these ideas were either executed poorly, or weren''t written as well as they could have been. Some episodes felt like they were dropped in from soap operas or Sesame Street and had little to do with Star Trek. At times the behavior of many of the characters simply was not realistic.The purpose of this book is to show how much better The Next Generation could have been, critiquing both the plot and the characterizations.

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin''s novel "A Game of Thrones", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.We don''t cover the hundreds and hundreds of character names, we focus on the central characters and central events of the story, to give you a fighting chance to understand what is going on.

IMAGINE...Imagine if Captain Benjamin Sisko''s wife Jennifer hadn''t merely been killed, but had been assimilated by the Borg, personally by Locutus of Borg.Imagine if Major Kira believed she was really a Cardassian spy, slept with Gul Dukat, and then realized she wasn''t really a Cardassian.Imagine if Nog were kidnapped by the Dominion, brainwashed, had a bomb put in his artificial leg, and then was sent with a special present to celebrate Captain Sisko''s receipt of the Christopher Pike award.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a lot of good things going for it. A lot of compelling characters, interesting situations, interesting ideas. I really liked Sisko (the later Sisko), Garak, Damar, Kira (the later Kira), Odo, and some of the other characters. The show also had a lot of intriguing ideas. But some of these ideas were either executed poorly, or weren''t written as well as they could have been. The purpose of this book is to show how much better Deep Space Nine could have been than it was.

For the discerning Dungeon Master looking to build a more dangerous lair. This book contains 50 traps, ready for use in your 5th Edition Roleplaying Game, and the rules to build countless more. Featuring the same custom trap creation system seen in The Total Party Kill Handbook to let you easily build exactly the trap you want for heroes from level 1 to level 20, the Trap Compendium adds new components, extra upgrades, and unique traps you haven''t seen before. Assail heroes with rolling boulders that spew fire as they go, fill corridors with webbing before unleashing a swarm of poisonous spiders, or even telekinetically hurl trespassers into a sphere of annihilation. The traps in this book offer a true challenge for your players and will make them think twice before rushing in unprepared.