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What is metacognition?
Metacognition describes the processes involved when learners plan, monitor, evaluate and make changes to their own learning behaviours.
Metacognition is often considered to have two dimensions: metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulation.
Metacognitive knowledge refers to what learners know about learning. This includes:
- the learner’s knowledge of their own cognitive abilities (e.g. ‘I have trouble remembering dates in history’)
- the learner’s knowledge of particular tasks (e.g. ‘The ideas in this chapter that I’m going to read are complex’)
- the learner’s knowledge of different strategies that are available to them and when they are appropriate to the task (e.g. ‘If I scan the text first it will help me to understand the overall meaning').
Metacognitive regulation refers to what learners do about learning. It describes how learners monitor and control their cognitive processes. For example, a learner might realise that a particular strategy is not achieving the results they want, so they decide to try a different strategy.
During the planning phase, learners think about the learning goal the teacher has set and consider how they will approach the task and which strategies they will use. At this stage, it is helpful for learners to ask themselves:
‘What am I being asked to do?’
‘Which strategies will I use?’
‘Are there any strategies that I have used before that might be useful?’
During the monitoring phase, learners implement their plan and monitor the progress they are making towards their learning goal.
Students might decide to make changes to the strategies they are using if these are not working. As students work through the task, it will help them to ask themselves:
‘Is the strategy that I am using working?’
‘Do I need to try something different?’
During the evaluation phase, students determine how successful the strategy they used was in helping them to achieve their learning goal. To promote evaluation, students could consider:
‘How well did I do?’
‘What didn’t go well?’ ‘What could I do differently next time?’
‘What went well?’ ‘What other types of problem can I use this strategy for?’
Reflection is a fundamental part of the plan-monitor-evaluate process. Encouraging learners to self-question throughout the process will support this reflection.
In the rest of this unit, we will look at the basics of metacognition in more detail. We will discuss the benefits, look at the theory behind metacognition and discover some practical examples.
Throughout the unit, you will be encouraged to reflect upon metacognition and to think about how you can integrate it into your own classroom practice. At the end of the unit there is a glossary of key words and phrases.
What is research behind metacognition?
Educational psychologists have long promoted the importance of metacognition for supporting student learning and it continues to be a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research. American developmental psychologist, John Flavell, is most commonly recognised for introducing the term 'metacognition' as a result of his research in the 1970’s which focused on children’s knowledge and control of their memory processes.
However, Flavell was not the first to study metacognitive processes. Since the beginning of the 20th century researchers focusing on reading have identified the importance of monitoring and control in the reading comprehension process. Since the 1960s, researchers examining memory have been investigating how we monitor the contents of our memories. From the 1970s, theoretical models describing how we process information included a ‘central executive’ which controls basic cognitive processes.
Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) theorised processes that would be regarded as metacognitive. Vygotsky developed the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development. This zone lies between what a learner can achieve alone and what a learner can achieve with expert guidance. The expert, a teacher for example, initially takes responsibility for monitoring progress, setting goals, planning activities and allocating attention for example. Gradually, the responsibility for these cognitive processes is given over to the learner. The learner becomes increasingly capable of regulating his or her own cognitive activities. This transition described by Vygotsky would now be considered metacognitive development.
As a result of research into metacognition, we understand that the effective use of basic cognitive processes is a fundamental part of learning. These cognitive processes include memory and attention, the activation of prior knowledge, and the use of cognitive strategies to solve a problem or complete a task. For a learner to ensure that they are making the best use of these basic cognitive processes, they need to have an awareness and an ability to monitor and adapt them.
A key challenge for teachers is being able to recognise how well their students understand their own learning processes. David Perkins (1992) defined four levels of metacognitive learners which provide a useful framework for teachers:
1. Tacit learners are unaware of their metacognitive knowledge. They do not think about any particular strategies for learning and merely accept if they know something or not.
2. Aware learners know about some of the kinds of thinking that they do such as generating ideas, finding evidence etc. However, thinking is not necessarily deliberate or planned.
3. Strategic learners organise their thinking by using problem-solving, grouping and classifying, evidence-seeking and decision-making etc. They know and apply the strategies that help them learn.
4. Reflective learners are not only strategic about their thinking but they also reflect upon their learning while it is happening, considering the success or not of any strategies they are using and then revising them as appropriate.
Once teachers have identified where their learners are on this continuum of ‘tacit’ to ‘reflective’ they can plan their support accordingly.
What are the benefits of metacognition?
Metacognition helps students to become independent learners
Metacognitive practices help learners to monitor their own progress and take control of their learning as they read, write and solve problems in the classroom.
Metacognition has a positive impact on learning
Metacognition makes a unique contribution to learning over and above the influence of intellectual ability. Learners who use metacognitive strategies are likely to be able to achieve more. Research shows that improving a learner’s metacognitive practices may compensate for any cognitive limitations they have.
“Too often, we teach students what to think but not how to think.”
Metacognition is useful across a range of ages and subjects
Metacognitive practices are useful for all learners from primary level upwards. Using metacognition improves students’ academic achievement across learning domains. Metacognitive skills help students to transfer what they have learnt from one context to another or from a previous task to a new task. This includes reading and text comprehension, writing, mathematics, reasoning and problem-solving, and memorising.
Metacognition is not expensive to implement
Unlike many other educational interventions, implementing metacognition does not require expensive, specialist equipment or changes to school infrastructure. The only cost of implementing a metacognitive approach is the cost of professional development. Later we will look at practical ways you can introduce metacognition into your school.
Want to know more?
The Education Endowment foundation has provided seven recommendations for teaching metacognition.
There are a number of misconceptions surrounding metacognition and the related construct ‘self-regulated learning’.
1. Metacognition is simply ‘thinking about thinking’
Although metacognition does involve thinking about one’s thinking, it is more complex than that. A large part of metacognition is actively monitoring one’s own learning and making changes to one’s own learning behaviours and strategies based on this monitoring.
2. Any strategy used while performing a cognitive task is metacognitive
This is not always the case. For example, using phonics rules to decode an unknown word when reading is a cognitive strategy. Flavell (1981) identified a useful distinction between the two: strategies used to make cognitive progress are ‘cognitive strategies’; strategies used to monitor cognitive progress are ‘metacognitive strategies’.
3. A teacher plays no role in their learners’ metacognitive practice
Although a metacognitive approach typically focuses on allowing the learner to take control of their own learning, the teacher is still required to help in the development of their metacognitive skills. For example, the teacher needs to set clear learning objectives, demonstrate and monitor metacognitive strategies, and prompt and encourage their learners.
4. Metacognition is only applicable to older learners
Some researchers (e.g. Veenman and Spaans 2005) believe that metacognitive skills do not emerge until a child is 8 to 10 years old. However, Whitebread and Pino Pasternak (2010) document a number of studies which indicate evidence of young children’s metacognitive abilities. Findings include children as young as 18 months demonstrating error-correction strategies, 5-year-old children showing an awareness of forgetting, and 3 to 5-year-olds exhibiting a wide range of verbal and non-verbal indicators of metacognitive processes in nursery and reception classrooms. These studies demonstrate that although young children may not be able to describe the metacognitive processes they are exhibiting, it does not mean that these processes are not occurring.
Metacognition in practice
A metacognitive approach typically involves students applying metacognitive strategies to respond to clear and explicit learning goals which have either been set by the teacher or identified by the student themselves. The student uses their metacognitive strategies to plan, monitor and evaluate their own progress towards achieving the learning goals.
In order to apply a metacognitive approach, learners need access to:
1. A set of strategies to use.
2. A classroom environment that encourages the learners to use, explore and develop their metacognitive skills.
Clear learning goals are necessary for students to effectively apply their metacognitive strategies. With clear learning goals, students can plan strategies that will help them to achieve the goals and will also monitor their progress towards achieving these goals.
Students can use strategies across different domains of the school curriculum. For example, a strategy that they have applied in a maths lesson might also be effective when studying a language. Discussing strategies in class helps students understand what strategies are available to them, how they impact on their learning, and why the strategies work.
The Education Endowment Foundation have published a guidance report on metacognition and self-regulated learning. This report gives examples of strategies you can use with learners of all ages to encourage metacognitive and self-regulated learning in the classroom. Here are five strategies that learners can apply across a variety of different subjects.
Many teachers will be familiar with the use of mnemonics to help learners remember information that might otherwise be difficult to recall. There are different types of mnemonic.
In expression or word mnemonics items in a list are arranged by their first letter to create a word or phrase.
The name ‘McHale’ can aid the recall of the different forms of energy:
Image mnemonics use a visual reference to aid recall.
For example you can use your hands to recall how many days are in each month.
Although mnemonics are limited in terms of supporting the development of higher order thinking skills, they are useful in helping learners to swiftly recall information in order to move on with their learning.
Keeping a thinking journal can be a highly effective way for learners to develop their ability to plan, monitor and self-evaluate.
A thinking journal is a powerful active learning tool that helps students to reflect on how they think. In addition, a thinking journal can encourage a learner to explore, question, connect ideas and persist with their learning.
The journal can be used in many ways including:
- to record ideas from a lesson, film, presentation, etc.
- to make predictions about what will happen next
- to record questions
- to summarise and restate the main ideas of a book, film, etc.
- to reflect upon and connect the ideas presented to other domains of knowledge.
(Costa, Bellanca and Fogarty 1992)
Reciprocal teaching is a strategy used to develop reading comprehension (Palincsar and Brown 1984). Working with small groups of students, the teacher models the use of four key strategies that support reading comprehension:
The students are then asked to take on the role of teacher and teach these strategies to other students.
Watch this video of primary school students using the reciprocal teaching approach in the classroom.
What do you notice about the role of the teacher? How could this strategy be used by your learners?
‘…talking out loud can help learners to focus and monitor their cognitive processing…’
Metacognitive talk involves a person saying out loud what they are thinking while they are carrying out a task.
Learners talking out loud is sometimes viewed by teachers to be an annoyance or a distraction in the classroom. However, talking out loud can help learners to focus and monitor their cognitive processing as well as helping them to develop a deeper understanding of their own thinking processes.
(i) At the planning stage, the learner can ask themselves questions such as: ‘What do I know about this topic?’, ‘Have I done a task like this before?’, ‘What strategies worked last time?’
(ii) While monitoring their progress, the learner can ask: ‘How am I doing?’, ‘What should I do next?’, ‘Should I try a different strategy?’
(iii) When evaluating their performance, the learner can ask: ‘How well did I do?’, ‘Did I get the results I expected?’, ‘Is there anything I still don’t understand?’, ‘What could I do differently next time?’
Learners, especially those above primary age, may have become unused to talking aloud to themselves in the classroom. In order to introduce learners to this strategy, the teacher can model metacognitive talk by working through a task or activity out loud. When teachers verbalise their inner thought processes, it helps children to understand how more proficient thinkers solve problems. This can then be extended by encouraging the learners to think out loud, both with the teacher and among themselves.
Exam wrappers are worksheets containing reflective questions that help learners to review their performance in a test or exam.
Exam wrappers can be given to learners both before and after they receive the results of the test and feedback.
Worksheets handed out before receiving feedback prompt the learner to reflect on how they prepared for the exam including the study strategies they used.
After receiving the test feedback, the learner may be asked to review the feedback to categorise any errors made and discuss how they can prepare differently for the next assessment.
Here are some more examples of exam wrappers. How could you adapt this idea to help your learners?
2. Creating a supportive classroom environment
Modelling the strategy
As we saw with metacognitive talk, a teacher modelling a metacognitive strategy is a useful way of introducing a new strategy to learners. A step-by-step demonstration of the strategy gives learners a clearer understanding of what the strategy involves.
This education blog contains video clips of both a teacher modelling metacognitive practices in the classroom, and a learner explaining the metacognitive processes they used to answer a particular exam question.
Watch the two videos on the education blog. How could you use this technique to model metacognitive strategies for your class?
A metacognition checklist
If you are new to metacognition, it will help to ask yourself the following questions about your teaching practice.
1. Have I included clear learning objectives?
Students need to understand what their learning objectives are so that they can plan how to achieve them. The process of planning should involve learners identifying which strategies they already know that could be applied in this new situation.
2. How am I going to encourage my students to monitor their learning?
Effective learners commonly use metacognitive strategies whenever they learn. However, they may fail to recognise which strategy is the most effective for a particular learning situation. Teachers can ask questions to prompt learners to monitor the strategies that they are using.
For example, before learners begin a task, prompt them to identify where the task might go wrong and how they could prevent this from happening. During the task encourage them to focus on the learning objectives and get them to think about how they can maintain that focus. This will encourage learners to think more actively about where they are now, where they are going and how to get there.
3. How can I create opportunities for learners to practise new strategies?
When you introduce your learners to a new strategy, give them the opportunity to use it both with support and independently. It is important to monitor your learners’ progress and provide them with feedback on the specific strategies they are using to help shape their learning process. (For further ideas for giving feedback and effective questioning, see Getting started with Assessment for Learning.)
4. How can I allow time for learner self-reflection?
Personal reflection enables learners to critically analyse their performance in relation to a particular task and consider what they might do differently to improve their performance in future tasks. It is important that teachers dedicate time for learners to reflect, and provide them with the tools to do so. One way of doing this is to use thinking journals as mentioned in the previous section.
5. Does the classroom environment support metacognitive practices?
Teachers are instrumental in shaping the culture of learning in a classroom. By establishing a supportive learning environment that fosters and anticipates metacognitive practices, these practices will become an integral part of the learning process. Check that you are modeling metacognitive practices effectively, giving your learners plenty of opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers, encouraging reflection and evaluating their progress.
Here are two activities designed to encourage metacognition in your classroom.
1. KWL chart
KWL stands for:
What do I know?
What do I want to know?
What did I learn?
The purpose of the chart is to help learners to organise information before during and after a lesson or unit of learning. A KWL chart will help you to engage your learners in a new topic, activate their prior knowledge and support them in monitoring their learning.
Here is an example of a KWL chart for you to use:
1. Set the class a clear and explicit learning objective.
2. Ask your learners to think about ‘What do I know?’
Learners start by thinking about what they already know that could help them respond to the learning objective. They record their thoughts in the left column of the chart. However, learners do not have to be limited to working alone. They could share their ideas with others using techniques such as think-pair-share.
In addition to activating any useful prior knowledge, this first question can highlight any misconceptions in your learners’ current knowledge and understanding.
3. Ask your learners to complete the middle column of the chart with their answers to the second question: ‘What do I want to know?’
Monitor the class carefully. If learners are having difficulty coming up with ideas prompt them to think about questions beginning ‘How…?’, ‘When…?’, ‘Why…?’ etc.
This stage provides a good opportunity for you to see what your learners are interested in and what they already know. You can use this information to shape your future learning activities.
4. During the lesson or unit of learning encourage your learners to monitor their own progress and to adjust the strategies they are using as necessary. Prompt them to ask questions such as: ‘How am I doing?’, ‘What should I do next?’, ‘Should I try a different strategy?’
5. At the end of the lesson or unit of learning, ask your learners to complete the final column ‘What did I learn?’
At the same time ask your learners to reflect on what they wrote in the ‘What do I want to know?’ column. Do they have any questions that remain unanswered. Do they have any questions that they would like to add? Make a note of these unanswered questions and use them to help plan future activities.
6. Reflect on their learning process.
Encourage your learners to reflect on how effectively they discovered the answers to their ‘What do I want to know?' questions. Support their discussions with questions that encourage reflection on their learning process:
What strategies did I plan to use?
What strategies did I actually use?
What didn’t work? What could I do differently next time?
What did work? What should I do the same next time?
Which other strategies could I use?
2. Levels of metacognitive learners
As we saw in ‘What is the theory behind metacognition?’, David Perkins (1992) identified four levels of metacognitive learners which provide a useful framework for teachers.
In the video below, Lee Davis (Deputy Director of Professional Development) discusses each of the levels in more detail.
What can you do to identify whether your learners are tacit, aware, strategic or reflective?
What can you do in the classroom to help and encourage your learners to progress to the next level?
Want to know more?
Here is a printable list of interesting books, articles and websites on the topics that we have looked at.
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses.
Also called cognitive wrappers. Exam wrappers are worksheets that learners complete before and after they receive their test feedback.
Describes a variety of cognitive processes that are required to attain a goal, including working memory, inhibitory control, attention control and attention shifting.
Meta means about, after, or beyond. In terms of metacognition this refers to a higher level of cognition (beyond cognition).
In simple terms, metacognition is being aware of and in control of one’s own mental processes. See above for a more detailed description.
Involves the learner making changes and adapting strategies. This will often happen following monitoring, for example, if the monitoring indicates they are not doing so well on a certain task.
The learner’s knowledge of tasks, strategies and their own cognitive abilities.
Monitoring of one’s own cognitive processes.
How learners monitor and control their cognitive processes.
Metacognitive talk involves a person saying out loud what they are thinking while they are carrying out a task.
A memory tool, device, or a technique created for remembering information that is difficult to recall.
A metacognitive approach to reading that involves teachers working with small groups of learners and modeling the use of four key strategies: summarising, questioning, clarifying and predicting. The learners are then asked to teach these strategies to other learners.
The teacher provides appropriate guidance and support to enable learners to build on their current level of understanding progressively to acquire confidence and independence in using new knowledge or skills.
The ability to monitor and control our own thoughts, emotions and behaviour.
A term which describes self-regulation in academic settings.

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I use “gullibility” here in a somewhat technical sense which I explore here. Often programs run in an environment where they can wield some authority, which might be just enough to do what they were designed to do, or more commonly they have much more authority than they need. There are gullibility problems even when they do not have excess authority.
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Imagine seeing the world with an extra splash of color, where every hue is more vivid, and the spectrum of colors available to your eyes far surpasses what most people can perceive. This isn't just a figment of imagination for some; it's their reality. Tetrachromacy, a rare visual ability, allows individuals to see up to 100 million colors, thanks to an additional cone cell in their eyes. While most of us navigate a world painted with a palette limited by our trichromatic vision, tetrachromats experience a kaleidoscope of colors invisible to the average person. But how do you know if you possess this extraordinary ability? Here are ten symptoms that might indicate you're a tetrachromat.
Tetrachromats can distinguish shades of color that look identical to others. If you often notice subtle differences in colors that your friends and family cannot see, this could be a sign of tetrachromacy. This ability extends beyond mere preference, allowing tetrachromats to identify and appreciate nuances in colors that would otherwise blend together indistinguishably for most people. It's like having a fine-tuned instrument that picks up frequencies of color invisible to others, making the world a more detailed and vibrant place.
An enhanced sensitivity to how rich or intense colors appear might indicate tetrachromacy. Tetrachromats often find certain colors to be more vibrant and alive than what is perceived by those with typical vision. This sensitivity can make everyday experiences more intense and visually stimulating, like watching a sunset or choosing ripe fruit. Colors don't just appear brighter; they seem to have a depth and richness that adds a layer of beauty to the world that others might not notice.
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With access to a broader color spectrum, tetrachromats might find it challenging to name specific colors because they see hues that don't have names or are not recognized by those with standard vision. This phenomenon isn't just a linguistic curiosity; it highlights the limitations of language in capturing the full range of human sensory experience. Tetrachromats live in a more colorful world, but sharing that experience with others can be frustrating when words fail to convey the richness of what they see.
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Tetrachromats may notice faint colors in low-light conditions where others only see shades of gray. This ability to discern color in the dark is a unique aspect of tetrachromacy, allowing them to navigate the world with a different set of visual cues. It's akin to having night vision that not only sees shapes and outlines but retains the vibrancy of the world's colors, even in the absence of strong light.
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Many tetrachromats find themselves drawn to artistic pursuits thanks to their unique perception of color. If you have a natural talent for art, design, or any field that relies heavily on color differentiation, it could be a sign of tetrachromacy. This talent is not just about the ability to see more colors; it's about how those colors can be combined, contrasted, and utilized in ways that evoke emotion, convey messages, and create beauty. For tetrachromats, art isn't just a hobby or a profession; it's a way of sharing their extraordinary vision with the world, offering a glimpse into the vast spectrum of color that defines their experience.
Tetrachromacy is a rare condition, and these symptoms alone do not guarantee that one possesses this unique ability. However, if you find yourself relating to several of these symptoms, you might be seeing the world through a more colorful lens than you realized. This condition offers a fascinating insight into the diversity of human perception, reminding us that the way we see the world is as unique as our individual experiences within it.
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The world has gone into conspiracy overdrive over the past week, with new, ‘mysterious’ pictures of Melania Trump sparking one of the most out-there theories of 2017.
In an internet world where sharks get picked up by hurricanes and swim through the streets, I’m making a bold statement there!
The First Lady was papped wearing large dark sunglasses and a ‘spy-like’ jacket as she accompanied her husband – President Trump – as he prepared to visit a Secret Service facility last Friday.
I'm not saying Melania trump uses a body double but trump did one time say Melania couldn't be there but was standing next to him lol
— Michele Widmer (@WidmerMichele) October 19, 2017
Speaking to journalists on the White House lawn before his trip, President Trump gestured to his wife Melania – who did look a little nervous – and commented:
My wife Melania, who happens to be right here, finds that subject to be of such vital importance, she’s very much involved.
However, people were having none of it, and Twitter promptly went berserk with many believing Melania definitely had a body double.
‘Cannapreneur’ Joe Vargas made the following explosive tweet:
This is not Melania. To think they would go this far and try and make us think it’s her on TV is mind blowing.
Makes me wonder what else is a lie.
This is not Melania. To think they would go this far & try & make us think its her on TV is mind blowing. Makes me wonder what else is a lie pic.twitter.com/JhPVmXdGit
— Joe Vargas (@JoeVargas) October 18, 2017
Joe’s theory was retweeted over 70,000 times and the ‘evidence’ began to snowball.
Some people noted how her facial structure looked ‘off’, while others fixated on the unusually ‘awful condition’ of her hair.
Some people even got freaked out by the way her nose looked somehow ‘attached’ to her sunglasses…
Facial structure is off,shed never wear grandma sunglasses and her hair isn't that dry and damaged. Or maybe it is her……
— SaRaH (@SLovesSmiles) October 18, 2017
That's what I thought! The hair is in awful condition (or it's a really bad wig) and she'd never let hers get that way. The Donald won't allow it!
— Theresa Williams (@HeyIrish) October 18, 2017
The nose looks like it's attached to the sunglasses, is anyone else seeing that? ??
— Beatrix Kiddo (@__Black_Widow) October 18, 2017
It wasn’t just her appearance which aroused suspicions.
Many people were left spooked by her uncharacteristic mannerisms, which included being more ‘animated’ and nodding more.
Pictures of Melania without sunglasses at the facility later on the same day further fanned the flames.
Curiouser and curiouser:
That was my response, “Melania only moves that much on camera if she’s walking.”
— Braddock (@Braddock1981) October 19, 2017
she never nods when Donald talks, this is a fake melania. What's going on? Is she refusing to participate?
— Jagged Star (@JaggedStar1) October 18, 2017
Agreed the real Melania is far more wooden, doesn’t nod like that
— sharp (@SharpCanines) October 18, 2017
Never seen her that animated before- v suspicious!
— anita mome (@nautileye) October 18, 2017
However, this Twilight Zone-esque rumour could well be traced back to a light-hearted tweet by journalist Marina Hyde, who tweeted a few days before Joe Vargas did.
In a recent article for The Guardian, Marina admits she meant the following tweet as a joke:
Absolutely convinced Melania is being played by a Melania impersonator these days.
Theory: she left him weeks ago
Absolutely convinced Melania is being played by a Melania impersonator these days. Theory: she left him weeks ago https://t.co/GDjX5Sr4L1
— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) October 13, 2017
However, she could not have predicted the reaction which followed:
Imagine my pride to find that by Thursday morning, this cobblers had percolated all the way up to news Valhalla – AKA sections on Good Morning Britain and Sky News – having been fanned by various nutjob social media accounts in the US.
Furthermore, it had been smartened up for appearance in the Washington Post and USA Today and so on.
In the case of Sky News, the entire backdrop was given over to a splitscreen of “Melania” at the Secret Service facility and a verified Melania image, with the chyron demanding: “DOES THE FIRST LADY HAVE A BODY DOUBLE?”
She looks like Polly pretending to be Sybil in Fawlty Towers
— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) October 15, 2017
She looks like Alan Partridge's fake wife on the boat video
— katienicholson (@katiecoward) October 13, 2017
It appears Marina became the unwitting perpetrator of fake news:
Well, now. To be honest, I had feared the process of creating conspiracy-based fake news would be a lot more inconvenient – I was concerned I’d have to go to that Macedonian town and hang out with the emo teens or whoever it was whose fake news farm skewed the US election for the Russkies.
But I needn’t have worried. It turned out to be something I could do in a few moments while exiting South Kensington tube station.
@_lauramo watch her face in this video. The longer you watch it, the more it starts to look like it isn't actually her
— Chloe Morrison (@_chloemo) October 13, 2017
I think you’re actually spot on. The face has quite a different shape
— leah franchetti (@LeahFranchetti) October 13, 2017
So be careful next time you tweet something funny on the way home from work.
You could well be inadvertently cooking up a conspiracy theory which goes right to the heart of the US government…
Jules studied English Literature with Creative Writing at Lancaster University before earning her masters in International Relations at Leiden University in The Netherlands (Hoi!). She then trained as a journalist through News Associates in Manchester. Jules has previously worked as a mental health blogger, copywriter and freelancer for various publications.

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There was outrage in Lecce this afternoon when fans staged a protest during the training session, hurling abuse at Souleymane Diamoutene.
The Salentini have slipped down to penultimate place and this week Coach Gigi De Canio's offer of resignation was rejected.
Tension escalated at the Calimera training ground today when a group of around 10 ultras surrounded Diamoutene and demanded he take off the Lecce shirt.
They singled him out because he used to play for arch rivals Bari, but also hurled racist abuse at the Mali international and tried to take off the jersey by force.
“There was a very serious incident including odious racist insults,” read a statement from the Players' Association (AIC).
“We express total solidarity for Diamoutene, who was singled out for having worn the Bari jersey in the past.
“The AIC hopes once again that the Federation and the Lega Calcio express their strong stance against such behaviour and take significant action.”


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I don’t know why I decided to buy and read a book about NOFX. They are a band that I’ve viewed as my favorite punk band since the early 90’s, but that puts them on the same level as my favorite progressive doom metal band (Tiamat) or my favorite insect (any of them but the seed tick…fuckers). Buying a book by them really isn’t something I would normally do. I never even watched their tv show when it was on, so why would I buy their book? No idea, but I did. And I read it. And I loved it. I haven’t even bought or read Neil Peart’s books yet, and he is my favorite musician of any genre.
The book is written by the members of the band, and they take turns telling their stories, sometimes the same stories from different perspectives. It was a brilliant way to tell the true events of the band. Early on you start to see the minds behind the musicians as they relay the events of their lives. I found I liked Melvin and his ability to see through the bull shit while still being willing to dive into the fray. I found Hefe to be almost an innocent bystander to the chaos even though he was undoubtedly a punk even if an accidental one. I found Mike to be an annoying as hell ass hole that is too caught up in himself to see what he himself is doing, yet he is truly the driving force of the band, the dreamer and the dream-maker, so maybe he just sucks as a writer of this kind of work, or maybe he wanted to come off as the annoying punk guy. It was Smelly that really made the book though. Smelly’s story is the story of rock-n-roll, the story of strength and weakness, and the story of endurance. Three times this book brought tears to my eyes, and they were during Smelly’s chapters. I actually had to walk away from the book for a few days due to the strength of the chapter about Joey, a girl he adopted. It wasn’t Mike telling the story about killing his mother or Hefe losing his brother, it was the story about the girl and what she did for Smelly and his father that had me bawling. Now, just to put that in perspective, I read around 50 books a year ranging from classics to pulp (and a lot of horror) and I have only cried during four other books that I can recall: John Adams, A biography on Mark Twain, The Corrections, and Of Mice and Men.
On the other side of things, this book made me laugh out loud over a dozen times also, a much easier task, but one still worth mentioning. The antics of the band is comedy gold, just as many of their lyrics are, and it is always fun to see celebrities (are they celebrities?) as real people. These guys are as real as they come. They are the type of people I would love to sit around with and play chess, drink coffee, or perv on the passing girls, or get totally fucking smashed if Smelly isn’t around. Thanks for sharing guys. You have turned a moderate fan into a passionate one.


The Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard
Our top pick is the Sawyer Products Picaridin Continuous Spray Insect Repellent
Written by Amanda Rose Newton
Mosquitos can make even the most-looked-forward-to outdoor activities unbearable, both for their annoying bites and their propensity to transmit diseases such as dengue, West Nile, and in recent years, Zika.
An effective insect repellent can help you better enjoy the outdoors, especially in humid areas, where the pests proliferate.
After evaluating dozens of products for their effectiveness, longevity of protection, and ease of use, we determined that the best overall product is the Picaridin Insect Repellent from Sawyer Products.
June 4, 2022
Outdoor Life: Do You Really Need a Water Filter for Backpacking and Mountain Hunting?
While DEET products may be more familiar by name and their chemical smell, sprays with 20 percent picaridin, like Sawyer Products, offer comparable protection without the harsh odor and oily feeling on your skin.
The Sawyer Squeeze was (by far) the most common Pacific Crest Trail water filter this year – for the fifth year in a row. It’s a $39, 3 oz / 85 g hollow fiber filter that rids your drinking water of protozoa and bacteria (and floaties). It can be used with Sawyer bags (included with the filter) or with compatible water bottles (Smartwater is the bottle of choice for many hikers).
SAWYER MINI WATER FILTER, $22 This has been my water filter of choice for years now. The bags can be iffy — I have had a few break – so carry a couple. However, the filter itself is reliable, light and inexpensive. -Logan


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A director who filmed a scantily clad woman beating a homeless, developmentally disabled and mentally ill man was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday in Clearwater, FL.
The Associated Press reported that 61-year-old filmmaker Jeffrey Williams produced the video -- and hundreds of others like it -- for distribution to the bondage and sadomasochism porn market.
Zuzu Vargo, 27, was sentenced to three years for her role in the beating. In the video, she punched and kicked the unnamed victim in the face and ribs, knocking him to the ground. She was paid $300 to appear in the film, whereas the homeless victim was paid $50.
Attorneys for Williams and Vargo argued that the victim had signed a waiver prior to filming, but Circuit Judge Keith Meyer was unpersuaded. He and prosecutors agreed that the homeless man in the video was clearly not of sound mind when he gave his consent.
"I find it completely incredible that you would not have picked up within the first few seconds how substantially he was impaired," Meyer said.
Raw Story contacted Christa Faust -- a dominatrix and the author of several books, including erotic noir thrillers Money Shot and Choke Hold -- who said that even if a homeless person is in their right mind, the question of consent is a blurry one.
"Even if the person is consenting, they're really broke and it's not like they would do it if they had all the money they needed," said Faust. "So, it's not really consent if somebody's doing something because they're economically disadvantaged."
As far as the genre of film featuring women assaulting homeless men, Faust declared herself baffled. She said that plenty of porn consumers like to see videos of women fighting other women, "but I've never heard of it being a homeless guy."
"Surely it can't be that hard for them to find submissives who would be perfectly happy to have this done to them," she said. "I could give you four or five numbers right now. So, what's the angle? Why does it have to be homeless people?"
"That's got to be part of it, looking at it from the point of view of the wanker," she mused, "that it's this innocent person who doesn't like it. It's just odd, though. I refuse to believe that the non-consensuality isn't at least a part of it."
In court, the AP reported, Williams said, "We're not in the business of hurting people. We're in the business of a fantasy enactment for a certain subset of the population. I deeply regret the pain and the anguish that we caused."
Vargo told the judge, "I shouldn't have trusted the judgment of someone else. I'm so sorry for all the trauma and distress."
The two are currently awaiting a second trial on two counts each of aggravated abuse of a disabled adult in the beating of another homeless man.
[image of Christa Faust via Flickr]


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Summary: Another message from the life of David.
DAVID—A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART
07—WHEN FEAR GETS A CHOKEHOLD
TEXT: 1 Samuel 20:1-3
1 Samuel 20:1-3 KJV And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?  And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.  And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
Thomas Hardy—More life may trickle out of men through thought than through a gaping wound.
Frederick the Great—Letter to a General—For the love of God, pull yourself together and do not look at things so darkly: the first step backward makes a poor impression in the army, the second step is dangerous, and the third becomes fatal.
Screwtape to Wormwood—There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy (God). (From C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters)
B. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
If you have read Daniel Defoe’s book, Robinson Crusoe, you will remember that it is almost a repeat of the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. Rejecting his father’s pleas, he left home in search of wealth and adventure and just as with the prodigal son, Robinson found himself involved in a life of debauchery, recklessness, and sin. It wasn’t too long into his sorry life before he managed to gain employment on a seagoing vessel.
But it just so happened that one day as the ship was sailing the Caribbean that a horrific storm destroyed the ship and they were treading the high seas. He was washed up on a beach of a deserted island, all alone. It was there that his soul began to respond to the Lord. As Providen would have it, a Bible was found among the wreckage that washed up on the shore. Through the reading of the Bible and his prayers, Robinson was converted.
From that conversion, he became a hard-working Christian who was thankful, devout, and although he was totally alone, he was peaceful and prayerful. All the while, his faith grew strong. But one day, he found a footprint in the sand and he suddenly realized he was not alone on the island. Knowing that there were fierce cannibalistic practices of the native tribes, he grew into a fearful man. He looked over his shoulder with every step. He no longer slept peacefully. He altered his habits and patterns. He visualized himself being captured, boiled, and devoured.
In his journal he was keeping, he wrote these words: Thus my fear banished all my religious hope. All that former confidence in God, which was founded upon such a wonderful experience as I had of His goodness, now vanished, as if He that had fed me by miracle before could not preserve, by His power, the provision which He had made for me by His goodness. . .
-That is what fear does to us—it is diametrically opposed to our faith.
Genesis 3:8-10 KJV And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
-There are multiple other references in the Bible concerning fear. But for the sake of time, we will just take this one and one more from 2nd Timothy.
2 Timothy 1:7 KJV For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
-From the Genesis account we can see that one of the first negative emotions that man ever had to contend with was fear. In fact, perhaps the first one is shame and the second is fear. However both of these are so intertwined and they are terrible weapons the devil uses on us all the time.
-When Adam was in the garden before he felt hate, jealousy, strife, envy, and anger, he felt shame and fear. One of the most negative things that can show up in your life, almost without invitation is fear.

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RENO, NV - Dunkin’ Donuts is announcing the signing of a multi-unit store development agreement with new franchise group, HT2 Franchising, LLC, to develop nine new restaurants throughout the Reno area. The first restaurant is expected to open in 2015 and the remainder by 2020.
No locations have been announced.
HT2 Franchising, LLC is led by Reno native Nicole Hansen. According to a Dunkin' Donuts release, she will manage and oversee the company’s daily operations for each restaurant. Hansen previously owned six privately branded coffee shops in Washington state and has strong ties with several businesses within the local community.
“We are very excited to bring Dunkin’ Donuts to Reno, and make the company’s famous beverages, baked goods and sandwiches available to an ever-growing base of customers,” says Hansen. “We have a passion and loyalty for the brand and look forward to the opening of our Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in the years to come.”
With this agreement, Dunkin’ Donuts franchise opportunities are sold out in Reno, but opportunities exist to grow the brand throughout the West in Colorado and California.

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There needs to be more investment by State and Federal Government in the critical area of water and sewerage to assist in maintaining a reasonable cost of living for Tasmanians.
TasWater has made outstanding progress in ensuring across Tasmania access to safe drinking water by contemporary standards, bringing significant benefits to communities and our tourism industry.
Over the next two years, all boil water alerts will be eliminated and work will commence on improving sewerage infrastructure. This work will take significant funding to do at the speed which matches community expectations. Those same communities also expect and need other important infrastructure such as local roads and bridges, parks, sports grounds and community halls kept to the highest standards.
Councils had planned to use the return on decades of community investment into water and sewerage infrastructure through the payment of dividends to aid in the maintenance and renewal of other assets. Councils need to balance costs and spending requirements over a ten year cycle which has peaks and troughs, and in addition by law, councils must fully fund the depreciation on their assets. For this reason, the change in projected dividends is significant and it will take some time to work through the impact on council assets and services going forward.
There are a number of factors which have influenced the state of the assets at the time of reform. In Tasmania, as is current practice across many other states, there has been considerable Federal and State investment in water and sewerage infrastructure in recognition that such assets were simply beyond the reach of many councils.
For many years, the State-owned Rivers and Water Supply Commission, provided financing to councils to construct infrastructure and, not surprisingly, this was when most water and sewerage schemes were built.
Further, by the time of water and sewerage reform, many systems had reached design capacity and new and more stringent standards were introduced. There had been a long lag between any changes in legislated standards, meaning the catch up is significant, but this is not the fault of councils. The limited ability of councils to fund major infrastructure projects is not new, particularly in the context of keeping downward pressure on rates.
The 2006 reform of councils' water and sewerage systems was initiated in response to the Federal Government's $10 billion national water initiative funding. Councils agreed that with funding linked to reform there was an opportunity to modernise assets. However, the investment back into water and sewerage never occurred, although some was allocated to irrigation..
Many Tasmanians cannot afford to pay more. Council owners have been working with TasWater in constraining the rate of increase for water and sewerage bills in the face of a demanding reform program. However, pricing increases are the trade-off for the pace of change.
Councils are being told they should not seek to increase rates, even to cover the shortfall through loss of dividends. As if councils would want to put further burden on stretched ratepayers if they could avoid it! The rhetoric is nonsensical and unhelpful.
This issue is simply bigger than councils and, given the critical importance to the long-term prosperity of Tasmania, it needs investment by all levels of Government.
Mayor David Downie is the chairman of the TasWater Owner’s Group

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Tjok-tjok chair by Stefan During. Named after the sound created when the position of the backrest is moved. The chair is entirely made out of wood and comes with leather cushioning. The chair can be readjusted to a total of 6 positions.
Seat height: 42cm.
|86 × 64 × 117 cm

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Did you be sure that you can finally stream online content, like movies or you tube videos on your own large screen TV without using a working computer or having to buy some special box designed to manage this? The internet TVs are out now as well as a new line of Blu-ray players that will be sufficient this for you as long as you have a broadband fast connection.
What software gives the ability to Watch movies online free gratis? It’s called Satellite TV for PC and with it, the more than 3,000 television stations and 1,500 stations to choose from.
Online movie rental sites carry a considerably wider variety: Foreign films, Japanese anime, documentaries. Everyone of these hard-to-find items basic to to get online.
Renting Online movies is poor. By signing up for one too services however realize that you’ll rent as twice the films you rent from your neighborhood movie store at the same price. There are a lot of sites who provide evaluation services also. This can take so many two weeks where you watch all of the movies oodles of flab . without paying for it. This is tremendous way to test the validity of how good might. Depending on the time you dress in your hands, you can observe as inside two week period than you would in a whole month.
What inside your spend one full hour downloading the Latest movie to one’s Zune, then when you think you are done, an individual an error message how the file is either incomplete or damaged? That is going to be such massive disappointment specifically it is really a nice weekend evening whenever you are all set to watch the latest Fantastic 4 – Silver Surfer. Even songs can be corrupted. Would certainly never imagine downloading Gimme More by Britney Spears only to search out it is corrupted and will not play all over your Zune.
There does not reason to pay an arm and leg for satellite equipment anymore with growth of online technology. In fact, you indeed up paying a significantly bit less to watch any form of shows including your soccer games. All you need to obtain this perform for you is a dsl connection of some sort (although broadband is preferable). You also rid your hair a monthly monthly bill.
After signing a contract with these websites, they’ll warn you do not to upload any violating content on the webpage. Since there are frequently of goseries4k of these websites it suggests that there is often a tough policing of the uploaded site content. But the users, who upload the films are smart enough to code it randomly, this means that you as a viewer can watch much even more.
Why choose Blockbuster? If you’re deciding where to rent movies online, the availability of Blu-ray at no additional cost and the “Guaranteed In-Stock” policies are two good reasons to choose Blockbuster over Netflix.

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As spring gives way to summer and the sun’s rosy fingers firmly grasp the red earth of Oklahoma, lively events in sun-soaked settings punctuate the weekends around my favorite haunts.
Some takeaways from the photo gallery below:
- Plaza Mayor‘s frequent fiesta’s are among the metro’s most entertaining.
- Cinco de Mayo was celebrated May 1 at OKC’s Plaza Mayor with live bands, wrestling, folk dancing, a carnival, food trucks and vendor booths.
- Agriculture around OKC is in full bloom, with the first alfalfa cuttings underway and a new crop of juvenile livestock in the fields. Central Oklahoma is among the nation’s leading producers of prime horse flesh.
- Norman Arts Council has organized its first public mosaic installation, to be presided over by noted Albuquerque artist and teacher Laura Robbins.
- May is also graduation time with sighs of relief by students and educators.
Other photo galleries by Doug Hill
Dec. 4, 2015: Photo essay: From summer to here


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I’m really tired of this being shoved down our throats. Why is your sex life anyone’s business? This just shows you how the left wants to be in your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, backyard. They want to be controlling you in every part of your life.
You wanna be gay? Go right ahead…no one is stopping you.. nor hating you for it. Why do we need to constantly shove this down everyone’s throats? These are the same people that lecture Christians. No.. we don’t need to ‘Make America Gay Again’.
The LGBT is a militant group. Plenty of gays that don’t want the spotlight constantly on them..And I don’t blame them. What goes on in your life is no ones business. But the left wants to make it everyone’s business. The left is nothing but a bunch of Totalitarian freak shows.
From Daily Mail
American Apparel has taken on Donald Trump with a new clothing collection featuring an adapted version of his campaign slogan urging the nation to ‘Make America Gay Again’.
The collaboration between the clothing brand and organizations Human Rights Campaign and The Ally Coalition, co-founded by musician Jack Antonoff, includes limited edition T-shirts, tank tops, a red hat and a tote bag.
The collection aims to raise awareness of LGBTQ rights and 30 per cent of American Apparel’s sales will be donated to the Equality Act, a federal non-discrimination bill, and the fight to end discrimination. Read More

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