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The Theory and Practice of Peer Mentoring in Education Bonus: Free research and peer mentor programs updates

The overemphasis on the negative aspects of peer pressure has resulted in youth being ignored as a source of positive help to other youth. This article explains the rationale, origins, and practice of peer mentoring, a system that uses the positive peer pressure skills of empathy and decision-making tools to help others. Young people can be easily trained to use these skills and help others, as well as themselves, make effective, responsible decisions spanning nearly all aspects of their development.

The overemphasis on the negative aspects of peer pressure has resulted in youth being ignored as a source of positive help to other youth. This article explains the rationale, origins, and practice of peer mentoring, a system that uses the positive peer pressure skills of empathy and decision-making tools to help others. Young people can be easily trained to use these skills and help others, as well as themselves, make effective, responsible decisions spanning nearly all aspects of their development.

The first 7 photos are taken on the way to the cupola from outside to inside.

A long part of the way goes slowly on a bevel upwards. We were told from a historian that this way was rebuild in the same way like it has been in original.
Monkeys carried there the building materials to the cupola.

For these ones who would like to know more about the Frauenkirche i copy here the link of wikipedia:
Dresden Frauenkirche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Frauenkirche was built as a Lutheran (Protestant) cathedral, even though Saxony's elector, Frederick August I (1670-1733), was Catholic.
The original baroque church was built between 1726 and 1743 and was designed by Dresden's city architect George Bahr (1666-1738), one of the greatest masters of German Baroque style, who did not live to see the completion of his greatest work. Bahr's distinctive design for the church captured the new spirit of the Protestant liturgy by placing the altar, chancel, and baptismal font directly centered in view of the entire congregation.
In 1736, famed organ maker Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753) built a three-manual, 43-stop instrument for the church. The organ was dedicated on 25 November and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) gave a recital on the instrument on 1 December.
The church's most distinctive feature was its unconventional 314-foot-high dome, called die Steinerne Glocke or "Stone Bell". An engineering triumph comparable to Michelangelo's dome for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Frauenkirche's 12,000-ton sandstone dome soared skyward with no internal supports. Despite initial doubts, the dome proved to be extremely stable. Witnesses in 1760 said that the dome had been hit by more than 100 cannonballs fired by the Prussian army led by Friedrich II during the Seven Years' War. The shells simply bounced off and the church survived.
The completed church gave the city of Dresden a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings (see above) by Bernado Bellotto, a nephew to the artist Canaletto and also known by the same name.
In 1849 the church was at the heart of the revolutionary disturbances known as the May Uprising. The Frauenkirche was surrounded by barricades, and fierce fighting raged for days before those rebels who had not already fled were rounded up in the church and arrested.
For more than 200 years, the magnificent bell-shaped dome stood monumentally and gracefully over the skyline of old Dresden, dominating the city.
On 13 February 1945, Anglo-American allied forces began the bombing of Dresden. The church impressively survived two days and nights of the attacks and the eight interior sandstone pillars supporting the colossal dome held up long enough for the evacuation of 300 people who had sought shelter in the church crypt, before succumbing to the heat generated by some 650,000 incendiary bombs that were dropped on the city. The temperature surrounding and inside the church eventually reached 1,000 degrees Celsius. The dome finally collapsed at 10 a.m. on 15 February. The pillars glowed bright red and exploded; the outer walls shattered and nearly 6,000 tons of stone plunged to earth, penetrating the massive floor as it fell.
The altar, a relief depiction of Jesus' agony in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives by Johann Christian Feige, was only partially damaged during the bombing raid and fire that destroyed the church. The altar and the structure behind it, the chancel, were among the remnants left standing. Features of most of the figures were lopped off by falling debris and the fragments lay under the rubble.
The building vanished from Dresden's skyline, and the blackened stones would lie in wait in a pile in the center of the city for the next 45 years as Communist rule enveloped what was now East Germany. Shortly after the end of World War II, residents of Dresden had already begun salvaging unique stone fragments from the Frauenkirche and numbering them for future use in reconstruction. Popular sentiment discouraged the authorities from clearing the ruins away to make a parking lot.
In 1982, the ruins began to be the site of a peace movement combined with popular peaceful protests against the East German regime. On the anniversary of the bombing, 400 Dresdeners came to the ruins in silence with flowers and candles, part of a growing East German civil rights movement. By 1989, the number of protesters in Dresden, Leipzig and other parts of East Germany had increased to tens of thousands, and the wall dividing East and West Germany toppled. This opened the way to the reunification of Germany.
There had already been intentions to rebuild the church during the last months of World War II. However, due to political circumstances in the GDR, the reconstruction later came to a halt. The heap of ruins was conserved as a war memorial within the inner city of Dresden, as a direct counterpart to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by German

I photographed this close up portrait of a Great Horned Owl during the raptor free flight program today at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, Arizona,

You know how I love birds and I must say this Great Horned Owl was simply stunning. I will be posting more photos of it and other birds I photographed there in the coming days.

Best viewed Large click on All sizes in the menu above.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens

Some information from Wikipedia on the Great Horned Owl (Scientific Name bubo virginignus)

Owls have spectacular binocular vision allowing them to pinpoint prey and see in low light. The eyes of Great Horned Owls are nearly as large as those of humans and are immobile within their circular bone sockets. Instead of turning their eyes, they turn their heads. Therefore, their neck must be able to turn a full 270 degrees in order to see in other directions without moving its entire body.

An owl's hearing is as good – if not better – than its vision; they have better depth perception and better perception of sound elevation (up-down direction) than humans. This is due to owl ears not being placed in the same position on either side of their head: the right ear is typically set higher in the skull and at a slightly different angle. By tilting or turning its head until the sound is the same in each ear, an owl can pinpoint both the horizontal and vertical direction of a sound.

These birds hunt at night by waiting on a high perch and swooping down on prey. They also have 500 pounds per square inch of crushing power in their talons. An average adult human male has about 60 pounds per square inch in his hands. In northern regions, where larger prey that cannot be eaten quickly are most prevalent, they may let uneaten food freeze and then thaw it out later using their own body heat.

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Everybody loves free stuff, and the new Amazon Kindle delivers freebies to you within 60 seconds, so hold onto your latte, because you’re in for a ride.

The best way to discover the joy of reading is to begin your quest with books that have remained popular for generations. In this guide to better reading, you will learn about the top 15 books everybody claims to have read, but rarely have, my personal selection of over 70 free books you can download, plus over 100 books designated by the University of Chicago and Mortimer Adler as great books you must read.

This book is also about the love of reading, just for the sake of reading. Looking back on a lifetime of reading, I can point to a handful of books that have changed my life. It’s hard to explain, but when you read a good book it feels like the author has squeezed his or her way into your head and carved a new room into your brain. Think about it. What memories, fantasies, or dreams can you attribute to a good book?

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