If your child goes to school in the Fremont Unified School District, and if you owned one of the Apple i-products, you might want to down load this free app from the App store.
iFUSD is the official iOS Application for the Fremont Unified School District. It has really awesome features such as Push Notifications about important updates for the schools that you choose, emergency status updates, grades and attendance data access for Junior and high schools, access to District news and calendar, information on the community/Board of Education, schools locations/maps, and function like 1-click calling to your children’s schools.
This app was made in coordination with the FUSD Technology department, an involved parent, a high school student developer, and many other high school students from Mission San Jose High school.
For more information about the app, please click here.
So, just check it out!! iFUSD will help you stay safe and up to date!
First the reminder: Be smart and back up everything saved on your computer hard drive — today. Take it from one who learned the hard way. Our home computer died a couple of months ago and with it went my “stuff”, including photographs, recipes, saved pages and other bits and pieces that meant something to me. I hope to find someone who can recover things from that dead hard drive, but at odd moments I think of my lost collections and of possibly reconstructing what I had. I know I lost two poems introduced to me in long-ago high school literature classes. After leaving home for college, and for the longest time before online searching became possible, every time I found myself in a book store (remember them?) or any library, I would browse anthologies of poetry hoping to find either poem listed in some book’s table of contents or index.
The feelings each poem evokes, if not their words, have stayed with me through the years. One fires me up, bringing up defiance and strength in the face of adversity. “Invictus”, Latin for unconquered or unbeaten, is the title of William Ernest Henley’s poem that left a lasting impression on my teen and adult self. Invictus also is the title of a 2009 movie that starred Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent 27 years in prison for campaigning against apartheid and then served as South Africa’s first black president. The other poem encourages patience and reflection and reins me in. At moments in my life, recalling Vernon Watkins’ Triads has guided me to my senses. I found these poems again online and now I share them here for safekeeping, sort of. At any time I can search the library catalog for poems, but for now I intend to keep my resolution to do scheduled backups of my computer hard drive.
Triads
by Vernon Watkins (1906-67)
Who am I to load the year with continual misunderstanding?
I will not accuse winter of a protracted hardness,
Nor spring of callousness, nor summer of regret.
The oak-leaf changes; green gloss cups the acorn.
First hidden, then emerging from resistance to statement,
The fruit holds nothing in its fullness but the tree.
To have held through hail, stormwinds, and black frost in darkness
Through the long months, gives meaning to the bud when it opens.
Song loses nothing of moments that are past.
So my labour is still: it is still determination
To resolve itself slowly in the weathers of knowledge.
By virtue of the hidden the poem is revealed.
Remember Earth’s triads: the faith of a dumb animal,
The mountain stream falling, music to the wheat-ears;
The salt wave echoing the grieving of the bones.
The lamb leaps: it is stubborn in its innocence.
The hawk drops, in the energy of instinct,
Dawn fires kindle perfection like a sword.
Fires: the hawk’s talons, the tongue of the chameleon,
In a peacock’s wings’ lightning the contraction of glory,
In death the last miracle, the unconditional gift.
What do I need but patience before the unpredictable,
The endurance of the stepping-stone before the footprint,
Cadence that reconciles wisdom and the dance?
I need more, I need more. In the moment of perception
Fit me, prayer, to lose everything, that nothing may be lost.
The stone that accumulates history is falling.
History is a pageant, and all men belong to it.
We die into each other: remember how many
Confided their love, not in vain, to the same earth.
In honor of the Art IS Education month, all the Alameda County Library branches are offering more than 100 free art events for youths of all ages and their family to explore their creativity and to learn how art can bring positive changes to ourselves, our community and our world. At Centerville Library, we have planned a busy month full of fun activities and here is the listing of them:
Tuesdays, March 5, 12, 19, 26, during open Hours
Thursday, March 7, 16, 23, during open hours Seasons Kirigami Art Project Kids and teens of all ages are invited to participate in making scenes of the seasons with kirigami paper cutting art. From flowers and butterflies to pine trees and snowflakes, there are countless patterns you can create. All materials are provided, so just bring your creativity and imagination and stop by anytime during library open hours. The project will be put on display in the Children’s Area after completion.
Thursday, March 7, 3:30-5:30 P.M. Mandala Paper Quilt Workshop This fun workshop for families will be led by Teaching Artist Lilli Lanier. This project uses basic traditional kirigami paper cutting techniques to create colorful, layered, mandala paper quilt squares. All ages welcome, and all materials will be provided.
Tuesdays, March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2:00-2:30 P.M. Bollywood Babies Join instructor Sunita Raj in this fun Bollywood dance learning program for children 18 to 48 months old and their parent. Space is limited, so a ticket is required to attend. Free tickets will be handed out 30 minutes prior to the program.
Thursday, March 28, 4:00-4:30 P.M. Read-To-Me Storytime Special Session In this special story time session, children aged 2 to 6 years old will enjoy art-themed stories and receive a coloring or activity sheet. No registration is required..
For more information, please call (510) 795-2629 or email Chien-Chun Chang at cchang@aclibrary.org.
Centerville Library is located at 3801 Nicolet Ave.,Fremont, CA 94536 MAP
For a complete listing of all the events at Alameda County Libraries, please click HERE
The Daybreak Trio performs in the Fukaya Room at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 16. Daybreak Trio plays a variety of styles: soft jazz, Cajun, Latin, original arrangements, world music selections. Group leader Wayne Siligo, jazz and pop guitarist, vocalist, saxophonist and blues-harp player, was a tenor soloist with the Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose symphonies. He played three nights weekly for 16 years at Papillon French restaurant on Mission Blvd., Fremont, and is now music director at the California School for the Blind, also in Fremont. Markus Choo, keyboardist and award-winning musician-CSB graduate, is the accompanist for the school Glee Club. Completing the Daybreak Trio is David Grandstaff, percussionist, guitarist and vocalist and teaching assistant at the CSB.
So, mark your calendar now: Daybreak Trio, 2 p.m. Saturday, February 16, at the Fremont Main Library. Check the online calendar regularly at http://bit.ly/V1WFhI and use the “Remind Me” button to automatically receive an emailed reminder of your chosen events.
I don’t knit, but I crochet. When my younger daughter recently voiced a wish to have one of those loop or infinity scarves, I quickly offered to crochet her one. It has been decades since I last held a hook or completed a crochet project, but I still know how to make a few stitches and I figured a simple scarf would require just the basic ones. Even better, I figured these scarves would not require turns to start each succeeding row. Years ago I gave up on my last crochet project because, while I followed the pattern closely, I unknowingly kept adding stitches each time I started a new row and the work in progress no longer resembled any throw/table runner/bedspread (I forget) I was hoping to create.
After collecting the yarn and crochet hook and without the benefit of a pattern, I started the foundation chain and promptly lost count. My daughter assured me that the foundation was just the right length, so I continued to add one row of single crochet, followed by several rows of double crochet stitches as time allowed. I started with the black worsted yarn and finished one scarf. Then I thought I could do better and started another one using navy blue chunky yarn. See the finished scarves, each shown looped once. I might as well be Opal in the comic strip. If my daughter won’t use either scarf, then I’ll keep myself really warm with them. Next time I will be smarter and follow a pattern I can manage. I’ll search library shelves and the library’s online Hobbies and Crafts database, as well as its digital magazines. And here’s wishing you all kinds of warmth this winter.
Come and watch FUSD students compete for $1000 and the FUSS (Fremont Unified Student Store) trophy for their school! You and your families are invited to attend the 1st Annual FUSD’s Got Talent Show. This show is hosted by FUSS to raise money for homeless FUSD students and their families for the holidays. All proceeds will be given to homeless FUSD students to help with the holidays.
Location: Fremont Adult School Multi-Purpose Room, 4700 Calaveras Avenue
Date: November 17, 2012, Saturday
Time: 12 pm – 5:00 pm
Register Online: http://www.fuss4schools.org/activities/registration/ Ticket: $2 online, or $5 at the door (*Deadline to buy tickets by credit card is November 14)
Purchase Video: $20 online (* No pictures or videotaping will be allowed)
Here are the schools who have registered. Elementary, junior high and high schools will compete separately.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Ardenwood
Azevada
Blacow
Brier
Forest Park
Green
Grimmer
Leitch
Mattos
Mission San Jose
Nile
Parkmont
Warm Springs
Weibel
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Centerville
Hopkins
Horner
Thornton
HIGH SCHOOLS
Irvington
Kennedy
Mission San Jose High School
Washing
Ever wonder what everyone is reading? Here are some list of the most popular titles at the Fremont Library
top 10 Adult titles:
1 Fifty shades of Grey / (James, E. L) 2 The help / (Stockett, Kathryn) 3 Gone girl : (Flynn, Gillian) 4 The tombs / (Cussler, Clive) 5 Friends forever : (Steel, Danielle) 6 Fifty shades darker / (James, E. L) 7 The sins of the father / (Archer, Jeffrey) 8 Wicked business : (Evanovich, Janet) 9 Close your eyes / (Johansen, Iris) 10 Come home / (Scottoline, Lisa)
top 10 teen titles
1 The hunger games / (Collins, Suzanne) 2 Mockingjay / (Collins, Suzanne) 3 Catching fire / (Collins, Suzanne) 4 To kill a mockingbird / (Lee, Harper) 5 Catch-22 / (Heller, Joseph) 6 Wuthering Heights / (Brontë, Emily) 7 1984 : (Orwell, George) 8 Fahrenheit 451 : (Bradbury, Ray) 9 Jane Eyre / (Brontë, Charlotte) 10 The color purple / (Walker, Alice)
Top 10 children’s titles:
1 Junie B., first grader : (Park, Barbara) 2 Fancy Nancy : (O’Connor, Jane) 3 Frog and toad are friends / (Lobel, Arnold) 4 Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa : (Silverman, Erica) 5 Cork & Fuzz : (Chaconas, Dori) 6 A fabumouse vacation for Geronimo / (Unknown Author) 7 The cat in the hat / (Seuss) 8 Eve of the Emperor penguin / (Osborne, Mary Pope) 9 Green eggs and ham / (Seuss) 10 Moonlight on the magic flute / (Osborne, Mary Pope)
Mark your calendar now: The Fremont Main Library will come alive with free dance and music programs on two Saturday afternoons this month.
Jhankar Live performs Oct. 13
On October 13, local Indian music group Jhankar Live performs Bollywood music, both fast-paced and melodious, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.at the Library’s Fukaya Room. The Jhankaris, a group of passionate music enthusiasts, have performed for charitable causes and supported education and artistic development for poor children since 2006.
A classical music concert comes the next Saturday, from 2 to 4 p.m. also at the Fukaya Room. Guest artist and award-winning
Guest artist Howard Na headlines Oct. 20 classical music concert.
pianist Howard Na will headline a concert showcasing keyboard, string and vocal talents from Fremont’s Anna Poklewski Academy of Music and featuring compositions by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bussoni, Liszt. A former child prodigy, Mr. Na at age 7 received a full music scholarship from Taiwan’s Department of Education to the Yong-Fu Music Academy. At age 13, he was the youngest student to finish the certified programs at the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Mr. Na has won top honors in competitions, including the 2012 Eastman Concerto Competition in Rochester, New York, where he performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (with his own cadenza – an homage to Godowsky) with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra.
Free tickets will be available at the Information Desk a half hour before each performance.
The Fremont Main Library at 2400 Stevenson Boulevard, Fremont, is wheelchair accessible. The Library will provide an ASL interpreter for any event with at least seven working days notice. Please call 510-745-1401 or TTY 888-663-0660. For your cultural enjoyment and entertainment, come to the Fremont Main Library!
If you like working with children, enjoy reading, and want to make a difference to the community, we have an excellent opportunity for you!
Every Tuesday and Thursday from October through May, more than 50 children are meeting with their teen volunteers at Centerivlle Library to improve reading. This highly appreciated popular program has helped hundreds of kids in the past 5 years. It is a very rewarding volunteer opportunity many teens are looking for. Applications are now open, for details and to apply, please download the application form and turn it in to the library as soon as possible. Positions are open until filled.
If you’re a fan of police procedurals on TV such as the CSI franchises, there’s one that provides a refreshing change of pace. Here criminals are apprehended and mysteries solved when the lead character uses his skills of deduction, detection and innovation, solid police work without the help of the high-tech tools his counterparts enjoy today, at least on TV.
“Murdoch Mysteries” is a Canadian TV series that features characters created by novelist Maureen Jennings. Set in the 1890s, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) of the Toronto Constabulary applies his scientific knowledge and improvises with available materials to devise gadgets to further crime solving. Murdoch makes collecting “finger marks” and trace evidence, not commonly done then, routine procedures at his crime scenes. He sets up a “scrutiny camera” to capture nefarious deeds as they happen, prompting his loyal assistant, eager learner Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), to observe that he would “hate to be a copper of the future, just drinking tea and exuding intestinal vapors.”
Also assisting Murdoch as he untangles his cases is Dr. Julia Ogden (Helene Joy), a female pathologist with progressive ideas of her own. She and the detective obviously (for the viewer) share feelings for one another, and their future as a couple is an unresolved subplot in the series so far. Murdoch’s supervisor, Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig), often is impatient with Murdoch’s explanations of some contraption or method of analysis Murdoch is using, but Brackenreid supports Murdoch’s unusual ways and is proud of Murdoch’s successful sleuthing.
The plots suggest events and developments that we know came later in history. Story lines also show real-life personalities of the period in fictitious situations. In early episodes, Arthur Conan Doyle visits to observe Murdoch at work, H.G. Wells headlines a conference on eugenics, and Murdoch marvels at Nikola Tesla’s experiments. Harry Houdini becomes a suspect in one episode. When he exiles himself to the remote Klondike region, Murdoch befriends a young Jack London.
The Murdoch Mysteries series is not shown in the U.S. I became acquainted with Detective Murdoch in a serendipitous moment, while browsing through the library’s DVD collection, and started following the exploits of this fascinating character, awaiting my turn on the holds list for the later DVDs. I enjoy seeing how each episode captures the social attitudes of the time and provides reminders of how things have changed, how much of what we take for granted today in all aspects of daily living was unthinkable or totally unacceptable in the 1890s. See for yourself; the library has all four seasons of Murdoch Mysteries in DVD format. I can’t wait for the Season 5 DVD to become available.
If your child goes to school in the Fremont Unified School District, and if you owned one of the Apple i-products, you might want to down load this free app from the App store.
