Eddie Y. Ramirez Blog: March 2017

A documentary by International School of Beijing (ISB) high school students about an iconic local snack won three awards the Across Asia Youth Film Festival (AAYFF) in Singapore and Shanghai last week.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

567 Clarke + Como by Marcon – Availability, Plans, Prices

External render of 567 Clarke + Como.

At a Glance

Coquitlam’s tallest building
364 market condominiums
2 commercial units
20,000 sq ft of amenity space
530 underground parking spaces
public plaza
adjacent to Evergreen Line transit station
near Simon Fraser University
close to Lougheed Town Centre shopping

Internal plaza at the centre of the 567 Clarke + Como property.

The Intersection of Life + Style
Marcon Developments presents 567 Clarke + Como, a striking transit-oriented landmark that brings urban convenience to relaxed suburban living. Coquitlam’s tallest building offers an attractive mix of one- to three-bedroom homes with enough density to give residents an outstanding selection of amenities, in addition to nearby golf, lakes, and trails.

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With the Evergreen Line’s Burquitlam Station just steps away, you’ll reach the West Coast Express commuter train in only one stop. Coquitlam Centre and Lougheed Town Centre are also on the line, making it a breeze to meet all of your shopping needs without the hassles of traffic and parking, doubly so if you want to meet friends at Port Moody’s booming Brewers Row when the work week is done. Given the vibrant community development we’ve seen around other transit nodes, like Marine Gateway and Brentwood, expect the selection of amenities, services, and leisure activities in the surrounding neighbourhood to only get better.

Pricing for 567 Clarke + Como
Marcon have not yet released final pricing details. Nevertheless, sign up to our VIP list to ensure you keep up-to-date on this remarkable opportunity to buy.

Floor Plans for 567 Clarke + Como
Plans call for 364 homes with a mix of 122 x 1-bedroom, 217 x 2-bedroom, and 25 x 3-bedroom condominiums. Contact me to discuss availability of plans suited to your particular living needs.

Amenities at 567 Clarke + Como
Residents will enjoy an exceptional selection of amenities that include a 7,600 sq ft landscaped podium rooftop with basketball court, sandbox, artificial grass for dogs, and an outdoor kitchen with barbecue area. The entire 29th floor will be a 6,650-sq ft amenity room, while the top floor Sky Lounge with outdoor rooftop patio offers a relaxing space to marvel at the stunning panoramic views. Utilize the services of the building concierge for when you aren’t available to take deliveries or greet guests.

Parking and Storage
567 Clarke + Como will include 449 resident and 81 visitor & commercial underground parking spaces.

Maintenance Fees at 567 Clarke + Como
As yet to be determined.

Developer Team for 567 Clarke + Como
Beginning life as a construction company has given Marcon Developments the experience to deliver homes not only of high standards, but also of high value. Homes built with extra attention to detail – where the fit and finish is just that much better. Marcon has developed some notable residences over the years, such as the first high-rise in Canada to achieve LEED certification. Building to these standards helps to future-proof your home, as well as allowing you to breathe easy from the first day you move in.

GBL Architects is a cohesive and progressive Vancouver based firm of 38 architects, project managers and technicians with a 25-year reputation of providing a full range of architectural services to the private and public sector. The firm has built its reputation on high-quality design, tight project management, technical proficiency, financial responsibility and keen administrative skills.

Trepp Design delivers carefully-contemplated, distinctive solutions customized to meet unique interior design needs for residential, multi-family, and commercial projects. TDI expresses individual preferences in inventive ways, leaving an iconic imprint on each environment. The team creates inspired designs with a timeless look and future-focused feel for local, national and international clients.

Expected Completion for 567 Clarke + Como
To be announced.

Are you interested in learning more about other homes in Brentwood, Lougheed, or Metrotown?

Check out these great Brentwood Presales!

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Cambie Gardens by Onni – Pricing & Floor Plans to Come!

Aerial perspective of Cambie Gardens master-planned community.

At a Glance

2,160 market residences
building heights from 3-28 storeys
retail & commercial space
community health centre
YMCA with 25-metre pool & therapeutic pool
69-space child care facility
2.5-acre park
urban farm
new Canada Line transit station

Healthy Community Living
In partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health, Onni Group and IBI Group Architects are redeveloping this 25.4-acre Cambie Corridor site into an exciting mixed use, master-planned community based on the City of Vancouver’s objectives for environmental, economic, and social sustainability. To that end, Cambie Gardens will offer a variety of housing options, retail & commercial space, healthcare facilities, social & recreational opportunities, space for urban agriculture.

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Beyond the extensive amenities and services that will be available within Cambie Gardens, a new Canada Line rapid transit station to be built at 57th & Cambie will give residents exceptionally convenient access to shopping at Oakridge Centre, McArthurGlen Designer Outlets, Richmond Centre and the leisure pursuits of downtown Vancouver. A mere 12-minute jaunt to YVR puts the world at your doorstep.

Pricing for Cambie Gardens
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Floor Plans for Cambie Gardens
A significant number of 2- and 3-bedroom homes appropriate for families are called for in the Cambie Gardens master plan. With Sir Wilfred Laurier and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary schools located at Heather & 57th, don’t miss out on this outstanding opportunity to raise your children with everything they’ll need in close proximity.

Amenities at Cambie Gardens
An extraordinary range of community amenities will be available to residents within walking distance, including a new park, urban agriculture, child care facility, YWCA, plazas & public spaces, retail businesses, commercial spaces, and a new Canada Line transit station. We are awaiting plans to be finalized that will specify what will be offered in each building.

Parking and Storage
Ample storage and underground parking are to be included in each building. Details will be published once they are finalized for individual buildings.

Maintenance Fees at Cambie Gardens
To be announced.

Developer Team for Cambie Gardens
The Onni Group is one of North America’s leading private real estate developers, with extensive experience designing, developing, building and managing innovative projects. As a fully-integrated company that directly oversees every step in the development process, Onni has built over 10,000 homes. In addition, the company owns and manages more than 7 million square feet of commercial property, over 5,500 rental apartment units, and has an additional 10 million square feet in various stages of development. With offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Mexico, Onni continues to expand and diversify into new markets throughout North America.

IBI Group, a globally-integrated architecture, planning, engineering, and technology firm, has been retained as architects for Cambie Gardens. From high-rises to industrial buildings, schools to state-of-the-art hospitals, transit stations to highways, airports to toll systems, bike lanes to parks, they have designed every aspect of a truly integrated city for people to live, work, and play.

Expected Completion for Cambie Gardens
Cambie Gardens will be built in five phases. Construction and sales of Phase 1 are expected to begin in 2018.

Are you interested in learning more about other homes in the Cambie Corridor, Mount Pleasant, or West Side?

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Live from ISB, this is Futures Public Radio

It's innovative, it's investigative, and it's interactive. Introducing Futures Public Radio (FPR), a multimedia platform for student storytelling making waves at the International School of Beijing (ISB).

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Interact Club's Bean Boozled Challenge!

The Interact club will be having a Bean Boozled Challenge during lunch! We will be selling a cup of Jelly Beans for 15 RMB. Each cup will have differently flavored (both delicious and strange flavored) Jelly Beans! The catch of the challenge is that you and your friends will never know if you're going to get caramel corn or moldy cheese; chocolate pudding or canned dog food; coconut or baby wipes! We will be selling in front of the cafeteria next to the Delimarche. See you all there!

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Flower Pick Up Reminder

Hi everyone, tomorrow will be the final day for flower pick ups. If you would like to buy more tulips, just come by the black box before 2:25 and they will be on sale for 5 RMB each. However, roses will not be on sale.

Any flowers not picked up by 2:25 will be moved to the back room of the library (1226) for storage.

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MS Science Café is Back!

Friday, March 31st during lunch (12:40-1:05)

Come learn about the endangered snow leopard and how ecologist Justine Shanti Alexander from the Snow Leopard Trust is working to save this cat.

High School/Middle School Library Media Center

Bring your lunch and eat while you hear from the scientist!

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Grade 8 Idol!

Auditions for Grade 8 idol will be coming up after Spring Break! We are looking for all kids of talents, including:

Singers
Dancers
Groups of performers
Comics
Magic
MCs/Hosts
Production Crew (lights, sound, film, etc.)

More information will be coming up after Spring Break, but start thinking about how you want to get involved with this exciting annual event! Start practicing your talents over Spring Break!

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Quarter 3 Stop-Motion Enrichment movie

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Simply Solo Concert Sign up

The Simply solo concert will be held on 24^th April. You still have time to prepare a music piece to play. The deadline of simply solo sign up is Tuesday 18^th April at 3:30.

Click here for more details.

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7 games to encourage listening in a group

This is an issue that has come up for me a couple of times this week. I work with a couple of children who have comprehension difficulties but are making good progress and can now follow simple instructions in school as long as they are given 1:1. However, they struggle when instructions are given to the whole class and tend to either copy other children or wait until they have been asked individually.

This is a difficult thing to work on and the games in this post are certainly not the whole answer. The first thing I usually do in this situation is to watch the child in the classroom and try to work out exactly why they are struggling. Is it that there is just too much language? Do they understand the words and the sentence structures that are being used? Do they realise that words like “everyone” include them? Are they aware of what is going on around them in the classroom? Are they able to shift their attention from one thing to another? All of these things are likely to be having an impact and the vocabulary and language structures etc. will need to be worked on as well.

However, for some children it can also help to run some small group games where they have to listen for themselves rather than copying or where they have to listen to a range of other people, not just the teacher.

Here are some suggested ideas. These ideas are aimed at children whose comprehension skills at the level of a 5 year old or older:-

Stand up if… Sit a group of children in a circle. Give “stand up if…” instructions. (e.g. “stand up if you are a boy”, “stand up if you are wearing a jumper”, “stand up if you have a brother” etc). The aim of this is that the children really have to listen and work out if each instruction applies to them.
Fruit salad. There are various ways to play this game. At the simplest level, give each child a picture of a different fruit. Say two of the fruits and those two children have to swap places (eg “banana and orange”). If you say “Fruit Salad” everyone has to swap. You can make this game harder by taking away the pictures and seeing if the children can remember their fruit. Alternatively, swap the pictures around after a few turns so that they now have to listen for a different item.
Listen for a word. Read a short story or passage. Before you start, tell the children that they need to listen for a particular word. Ask them to do a particular thing whenever they hear that word (e.g. stand up, clap, put their hand up). Keep this really simple to start with by keeping the same word for the whole story and emphasizing it each time you say it, with extra prompts to listen as needed! If the children become very proficient, you can ask each one to listen for a different word (again with a picture to help them to start with).
I went shopping. Start off by saying “I went shopping and bought…” and add an item to the end. (e.g. “I went shopping and bought eggs.” The next person has to repeat what you said and add something else to the list (e.g. I went shopping and bought eggs and chocolate”. Keep going round the circle until someone can’t remember. You can also use other sentence starters such as “I went to space and I saw…” or “I went on holiday and I took…” NB This game does require good auditory memory, so be aware that if the children struggle it may not be the listening part that is tricky for them!
Listen to each other. Ask a variety of questions and ask the children to tell their answer to a partner. Then they have to report back their friend’s answer. For a child who has difficulties listening in a group, they will almost certainly need adult support with this to begin with, and very simple questions to report back on such as “what’s your favourite colour?”
Simon Says. I won’t describe how to play this as I think most people will be familiar with it. With children with language difficulties, I usually miss out the actual “Simon Says” part to begin with and just give instructions for them to follow. Let each child have a turn at giving the instructions so that the children have to listen to a range of different people not just the teacher.
Hot potato. Choose a simple category (e.g. food, clothes, animals…) Pass a ball or similar object around the circle. Each person has to say an item that fits the category when they have the ball. In theory you are supposed to pass it on really quickly (hence the name hot potato) and you are not supposed to repeat anything that has gone before but this is hard for many children, especially if they have memory difficulties. Start by making sure that they don’t repeat the last one or two that were said so that they have to listen to the child before them. Gradually build up from there.

A couple of words of advice before I close. All of these games are very difficult for some children, especially those with language difficulties. Here are some suggestions about how to introduce them.

Demonstrate. Often the description of how to play can be confusing and difficult to understand. Show them several times, and don’t expect them to get the idea straightaway.
Give adult support. If you are targeting listening in a group for one particular child, have an adult sitting next to them to begin with. They can repeat instructions if needed, prompt them to listen and keep the child engaged. For example, in fruit salad, the adult can keep reminding them “you need to listen for banana” and pointing to the picture.
Persevere! Many children really struggle to start with but after playing quite a few times with support, they start to get the idea. Elizabeth and I used to play many of these games in language groups in a specialist centre for children with language difficulties. The first time would often be a disaster and we would be prompting every child all the time. Gradually though many children would get the idea and be able to play independently.
Be flexible. This may seem to contradict what I have just said, but also be aware that for some children there is just too much involved in these games and they are not ready for them yet. If they still really struggle after lots of attempts and support, try again another time. However, before you do, go back to watching the child as I suggested at the beginning and see if you can work out why they are struggling. Are there other skills that you need to work on first?

What other group listening games do you play?

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This week in Phoenix #4

Phoenix still a destination place
We have written about why the Phoenix housing market is likely to stay strong for a while. One of the reasons we mentioned is that Phoenix is still a place people want to live. A story this week shows this is still the case. Over 1300 people a week are moving to the Phoenix market. And if you want to know why just look at the last week. While we were enjoying 80 degree days, Pittsburg and Cleveland and other cities were bracing for snow. They are among the cities people are leaving the fastest.

But where will all these people work? Don’t worry, every week there are new stories about companies relocating to Phoenix. And it seems many of them are coming from California. That is one good thing about California being such a high tax state, we get to help many of their companies with our more friendly business climate. One Solar company fits this description and is relocating to Tempe from California.

We are also ranked in the top 10 in total job creation.

Where will they all live?
I was in downtown Phoneix this week, close to Chase Field. I took a look around and then remembered the skyline just 5-6 years ago. What a difference. Downtown Phoenix is growing like crazy, and mostly growing up, as in tall buildings. The latest addition is going to be a 19-story high-rise apartment complex. Why are all these new apartments going in? More people seem to be headed back to the city. Phoenix is also trying to attract ASU students and young professionals who may want to be close to a downtown.

One way we know more apartment housing is needed in the Phoenix market is to look at rent prices. While the Phoenix market in general is strong at a 4.4% increase, Central Phoenix is leading the way with an 8.1% increase.

One issue that all the new people downtown face is food shopping. There is currently only one grocery store that serves downtown Phoenix. But those moving in should not worry, a second grocery store is headed to do the downtown area.
Quick takes
Going to Chase Field this summer? Check out these new food choices!

5 local spring beers to try. Question… How do I get this job reviewing beer?

New property-deed scam targets Maricopa homeowners, beware

3 hidden home defects to look out for

Check out this 10-story single family home for sale in Prescott. When it was built, it was the tallest single family house in the world. It is still the tallest in Arizona.

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