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The American way of life is all about productivity and the value we place upon it. This generally means how many hours we spent at the office, how many things we crossed off our to-do lists, projects you completed, goals accomplished.
Another way of being ‘productive’ is by doing nothing When used in correct proportion and at the right time, nothing can be the most productive thing we can do – that’s the reason why we should give ourselves a snow day at least once a month, regardless of the weather report!
Rest, relaxation and leisurely activities are productive because they recharge our batteries, an essential requirement that fuels ourselves to carry on. More important, there is an ebb and a flow to our lives, and when we’re in a time of rest and disengagement, that’s often when the big idea, the solution to the problem, the words that we’ve been trying to force just appear….almost effortlessly.
You must let the ebb ebb and the flow flow. If you’re too busy doing, doing, doing, thinking, thinking, thinking, then there is no room for creativity to bubble up from within or inspire from without, to discover what you really want or feel, or for you to heal.
When you do a session with me, I am able to identify your rhythm of ebb and flow, and how the whole work/life balance dance fills your world. Sometimes you might not even realize how ‘off’ you are…and that’s exactly what’s been holding you back in your career, relationships or health.…..so give me a buzz, I’m here to help and look forward to working with you soon! | 2019-04-19T10:27:35Z | https://kristinaleonardi.com/2015/01/27/snow-daze-2/ |
It was another Saturday working the dressing room at Zara. Among the masses of women desperate to try their latest finds, she appeared with a blue Cèline handbag that I had never seen in person before. “I love your bag”, I said, to which she responded with such a smile and a ‘Thank you’ unequal of the people who usually wear this kind of stuff.
From that moment, I could see why people would think that Frances Estrada, the blogger behind The Pecking Order, was just another girl that loved fashion and wore fancy clothes. I have been guilty of making such assumptions in the past. But, it wasn’t until I worked with her a few months ago that I realized how stupid such suppositions can be.
She arrived at the studio, suitcases in hand, alongside her friend and designer Jean Cintrón. Her hair was in a ponytail and her makeup was fully done. Once I started talking to her, I saw that girl who smiled at me for complimenting her bag years before. ‘Why did I think she would be just another fashion girl?’, I though to myself. In addition, she made the revelation that she was getting her PhD at Touro College of Pharmacy. She shared her vision of how the fashion industry in Puerto Rico could be and I immediately saw an ally; someone who loved fashion and didn’t see it just for the glamour. I had been looking for that kind of person for too long in my life.
Since then, I have gotten the chance of getting to know this Aries who drinks coffee with three sugars and adores Olivier Rousteing. She was raised in my hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico to pharmacist parents and has a sister named Valerie, who lives with her in New York. Not to mention, her adorable French bulldog Emma.
In spite of the criticism she often faces, she remains true to herself and believes that her project can make a real impact in someone else’s life. It’s safe to say that the cover had nothing to do with the book. So, when I had the chance to see her in New York, I knew that a badass like her merited a file of her own.
BF: Why did you decide to launch a blog?
It’s a long story. It wasn’t even intentional. I also wanted to study fashion. I went to California and applied at FIDM. As part of the application, I had to submit a portfolio and I didn’t know how to draw or anything like that. I also hadn’t collaborated with anyone at that point. The only thing I could do was take pictures of myself wearing the outfits I styled and posting them online. I got accepted. But, I also got accepted in pharmacy in New York, so I declined the offer from FIDM because my family is in pharmacy and it’s something I had always wanted. I started getting calls to collaborate, so I went with it.
BF: A lot of people that read your blog don’t know that you study pharmacy. Why do you choose to keep it hidden?
When I tell people I study pharmacy, they get surprised. I am really passionate about it but what I like the most is fashion. I try to focus on style and let my profession aside.
BF: How do you see your role as digital influencer, especially within Puerto Rico’s fashion industry?
Honestly, that term is kind of strong for me. I don’t consider myself as an influencer, but as a helper. I have my followers on Snapchat who write to me and I send them back my tips just like any other friend would.
BF: What do you want to do inside Puerto Rico’s fashion industry?
Of course, my fanbase is mostly from Puerto Rico. I’m here to study so that’s what I focus on while in New York. I take advantage of it, though, and attend major events like Fashion Week. My goal here has always been to represent the Puerto Rican woman. I’ve never considered myself a New Yorker. Yes, I do want to go back once I finish my PhD. I feel that Puerto Rico has a great potential in fashion and we are not exploding it enough. I want to search for local talent that people have not seen. I also want to create a fashion event that elevates Puerto Rican fashion internationally.
BF: There’s a lot of people who think that being in fashion means you are not to be taken seriously. Have you faced this kind of backlash?
Yes, many times. People have this idea that because you like fashion you are not smart. No one believes me that I study pharmacy. There is a huge stereotype that we need to break and that is part of what I want to represent. You can like fashion and be smart.
BF: What moment from your childhood do you consider to be a premonition of your life now?
In terms of fashion, I always used to grab my mother’s lipstick and put it on. I played with blush as eyeshadow and walked around my parent’s pharmacy. I asked my mother to buy me heels. My mom also like me but more conservative. My sister and I are super different, though.
BF: How do you think your birthplace influenced who you are?
People never believe I am as humble as I am. I was raised in Caguas in my parent’s pharmacy around people with very humble roots. Those are my people. Of course, I wasn’t surrounded by fashion in that environment but it really shaped my personality. Once I turned 15, I had a laptop and I could research the international fashion industry. It has been more of a virtual learning process.
BF: How have you integrated yourself inside the fashion bloggers in New York?
I have a much deeper relationship with bloggers from the Dominican Republic. I started getting to know through Helen Blandino and she introduced me to the rest of them. When they come to New York, it’s incredible to see the relationship they have with each other. As of now, I am the only Puerto Rican that has explored that scene. It’s been a really cool experience and we help each other a lot. They’ve been excellent to me.
BF: You were not trained in communications. How did you gain so much knowledge of social media?
I didn’t know anything when I started and I didn’t understand what I was exposing myself to. I have to give credit to Sandrysabel from Heel Condoms. She’s an entrepreneur and has so much knowledge of business. She was the first one that reached out to support what I was doing. We went to dinner and she gave me so many tips. That’s how I started getting to know the digital world. On the way I’ve met other people who have helped me like my friend Jean [Cintrón] who has showed me how to build up an Instagram page. The Pecking Order is not just me. It’s been a bunch of people who have helped me.
BF: How do you see The Pecking Order in 5 years?
Honestly, I can’t imagine. I just want to make an impact on young girls so they can grow themselves too. I want more bloggers and more people to love fashion. I want them to make content and to do it well. That’s why I take the time to help others. The most important thing is to do it well.
BF: What does ‘badass’ mean to you?
I’ve always envisioned it as female. A woman who is fearless and takes risks. She does whatever she wants and she does it well. | 2019-04-26T13:53:12Z | https://badassfiles.com/2016/02/08/file-no-5-frances-estrada-fashion-blogger-and-phd-student/ |
SkySaga Alpha 6 is finally released! Check it out!
Now you can get ready to explore Infinite Isles Alpha 6! This is viewed as another latest advancement of SkySaga, including some awesome biggest changes that can catch your attention. Let’s find out now!
The most interesting point that can be found in SkySaga 6 is the combination of the NA and EU servers, which means that all the players are now able to enjoy and play SkySaga game on just one server.
If you did install SkySaga, the update would be automatically done when logging in. If you haven’t gotten this game, you can try it now with the link as shown below.
There will be a little change of your character name above due to the encounter of another character name of another player when integrating two accounts from two servers. This is such a big drawback and probably you would like to switch your name. If you want to do that, you can contact help@radiantworlds.com and saying the name that you want to get, or you can say the second one just in case the first name was already taken.
When making your way through lots of exploits, you can totally find and get some rare stuff which can be used to craft or enhance your weapons, tools, and armors.
The crafting system has been updated and of course, new devices will be also introduced to you too so that you can craft your items more easily.
Let’s come back to SkySaga and get ready to explore new challenges with your awesome character. You can also discover a new tribe as well as a new home island. New features are also updated in this version as well! Have fun! | 2019-04-24T01:49:25Z | http://www.skysagaonline.com/game-news/skysaga-alpha-6.html |
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Surviving divorce, raising children and starting over is something Katie Kelley Detmer understands all too well. | 2019-04-20T16:53:25Z | https://news.findit.com/category/45/1/publishing-and-printing |
Gary Player has said golf’s Olympic withdrawals are ‘hurting’ the sport – as he revealed a second South African player who won’t be teeing it up in Rio de Janeiro.
The 80-year-old, who is South Africa’s team captain, announced that Charl Schwartzel has joined Louis Oosthuizen in ruling himself out of consideration for the tournament, with the outspoken Player clearly let down by the news.
“I am sad and disappointed that several top players have withdrawn from the Olympic Games in Rio,” said Player in a statement he released on Twitter. “I would have given anything to play in the Olympics. South Africa had a great team, but now obviously, it will not be as good.
“Players withdrawing hurt the game of golf. This certainly impacts South Africa’s chances to win a golf medal. No doubt they would have made our team even stronger.
“Players today make so much and should be giving back. The Olympics is one way they can do that since there is no prize money. It will undoubtedly grow the game worldwide no matter who plays and who doesn’t. All top players should think carefully about this. Many people fought tooth and nail for decades to get golf back in the Olympic Games, a true worldwide effort.
Schwartzel, whose reasons for opting out are currently unclear, is now the fourth known player to withdraw from the Olympics, following Vijay Singh, who cited the Zika virus, and Adam Scott and Oosthuizen, who both referred to an ‘extremely busy playing schedule’.
Gary Player :: Do you agree with him?
Do you agree with Gary Player and his views on the Olympics? How many more players do you think will withdraw by the time the tournament comes around? Leave your thoughts in the 'Comments' section below. | 2019-04-22T15:04:45Z | https://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/gary-player-hits-out-at-olympic-withdrawals |
I'm Bruce Armstrong and I'm an artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. I've been carving, painting, drawing and printmaking for around 30 years. I've been fortunate enough to earn some public sculpture commissions, the largest of which is pictured on this temporary page. It's called "Eagle" and stands at around 23 metres tall in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne.
Mostly though I'm a studio based artist who has occasional exhibitions at commercial galleries. When this website is complete, I will have a range of artworks illustrated, both graphic and sculptural, from most of my professional life.
For those of you who might be interested, I have an exhibition coming up at the John Buckley Gallery in Prahran. The dates are 14 August - 7 September. Might see you there. | 2019-04-20T02:12:24Z | http://brucearmstrong.com.au/ |
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You’ll love to come home to the Brahms! As you enter the home you’ll step into an elegant foyer which leads to a convenient finished recreation room. You can opt to add French doors and make this a quiet space for working at home. A two-car garage is also included. On the main level, a huge open Kitchen with an abundance of cabinetry provides plenty of room for cooking and entertaining. An optional powder room can be selected on the main level or lower level – your choice! Upstairs, you’ll have three bedrooms with two full baths along with a coveted laundry space conveniently located on the bedroom-level. You can customize the owner’s suite by adding a tray ceiling or oversized shower. The elevations are classic colonial facades, with a variety of unique features that vary per homesite, such as box bay window and covered front porch with elegant metal roof detail.
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The Traffic Officer confiscates your cellphone: What you should know!
Since 2011 the City of Cape Town: Traffic By-Law, 2011 has made it possible for an authorised officer to confiscate your cellular device if you are caught using it in your car while driving. If you end up getting caught red-handed, these are a few things you should know to make sure that all the correct procedures are followed when your cellular device gets confiscated.The City of Cape Town: Traffic By-Law, 2011 (hereinafter “the By-Law”) prohibits driving a motor vehicle on a public road, firstly, while holding a cellular or mobile telephone or any communications device with any part of the body and, secondly, while using or operating a cellular or mobile telephone or other communication device unless it is affixed to the vehicle (like a handsfree kit).
According to the By-Law an authorised officer may, in the interest of public safety, confiscate a handheld communication device if he informs the owner of such device of the reasons for doing so. He must issue a receipt to the owner, stating the place at which such device may be claimed, and he must follow all procedures contained in any policy of the city dealing with the confiscation and impoundment of property. The policy applicable in the City of Cape Town is called the Standard Operating Procedure on the Impoundment of Goods and Animals, 2012.
i) the terms and conditions relating to the sale of unclaimed goods, by public auction, where no claim (and/or representation) is received.
The City may sell any cellular device that hasn’t been claimed within ninety days after the date of impoundment through public auction which shall be advertised in local newspapers. Municipal officials and councillors, their spouses, relatives and acquaintances are prohibited from purchasing any of these impounded goods. Fees may be levied for the storage of the cellular device and any other expense incurred by the Council during impoundment. Said fees shall be determined by Council and may be adjusted from time to time. Fees and fines shall be paid at the Council cash office between the hours of 08:00 and 16:00 on Mondays to Fridays.
Goods may be returned to the owner, or his or her representative, upon presentation of proof of payment of all fees related to the impounding and storage of the goods and any fines imposed prior to and/or during impoundment. Owners or their representatives can collect their goods during the hours and at the venue indicated in the impoundment notice served on the offender.
Officials of the City must take reasonable steps to prevent any damage to impounded goods; however, it will not be responsible for any damage caused to goods where a reasonable duty of care was exercised. Digital photographs shall be taken of all impounded goods.
A person who contravenes a provision of this By-Law commits an offence and a person who commits such an offence is, on conviction, liable for a fine or a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years, or both. | 2019-04-18T19:16:44Z | http://cluvermarkotter.law/2016/09/07/the-traffic-officer-confiscates-your-cellphone-what-you-should-know/ |
Following on from last season's event, this season's event will be bigger and better. See well known Hobart celebrities pitch their baseball prowess against local players. This will be followed by East V West and I have it on good authority the East won last season!! There will be children's activities and I believe a jolly guy in a red suit may drop in. More details as they are finalised. PS can Mayor Kristy Johnson get through the celebrity game without being injured?!! | 2019-04-23T20:37:56Z | http://baseballtasmania.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Display_Page&PageID=8372&OrgID=16725 |
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Remember the days of the Yellow Pages when you would change your business name to Aardvark or something that starts with AAA to be at the top?
All jokes aside, SEO is really no different. Only this time, we’re getting to the top by making sure that your website has all the good things that Google is looking for in a number 1 listing both on the website itself, and around the web.
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Your website is available to talk to people 24/7. It doesn’t take sick days, doesn’t need annual leave and is able to communicate with consumers when they are ready for information about your business. But if your website isn’t even appearing on Google, it’s as good as your best salesman spending all day in the break room.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) brings your website back out from the shop floor and in direct contact with your local Perth customers who are searching for what you do on Google.
You’ve likely invested thousands on a website, not to mention the ongoing costs of domain registration, website hosting, SSL certificates and website maintenance and wondering why this modern business tool isn’t making any money.
Your website needs to be visible when search users punch in keywords such as “Your Services” Perth. Web design is extremely important and crucial to converting visitors, but if your website isn’t speaking to people when they’re looking for the things that your business offers in the first place, that investment is wasted. Google crawls an unbelievably large amount of websites every single day and ranks them according to which websites Google deems most informative and helpful to search users.
Clever online marketing involves optimizing your website to be clearer and easier to understand by Google’s search bots so that it knows that your business deserves to be placed at the top of search users’ results list. You may look to get a few SEO tips here and there or feel you already know the SEO basics, but if you really want your website to get ahead of your competition, you’ll need an local, Perth SEO Expert with knowledge of more advanced SEO techniques to take your website to that next level.
Having a noticeable search engine presence allows you to be seen to those who are trying to find you. As your local Perth SEO expert, I’ll help your business to pop up, say hello, and invite your customers in to do business with you by capitalising on the free traffic that flows through Google on a daily basis.
Unlike traditional media that implement a spray and pray approach to advertising, the audience you are targeting with search marketing doesn’t just contain some of your target market – they are your target market and they’re ready to engage with a business like yours.
However, the success of an internet marketing campaign isn’t completely down to how well you rank. It is important to understand the journey a search user takes and where the responsibility lies in each stage between your SEO campaign, your website, what your business offers, and your teams’ ability to close leads.
The customer begins their purchasing journey. They search Google for a product or service that they have want to research and/or have some purchase intent in. When the search results come up, the consumer is gaining awareness of local and relevant service providers just like yours. If your business is not even appearing on Google’s first page, it is impossible for your business to even be considered by consumers. Simply because they do not know you exist. Through SEO, Perth customers will be able to find your business when they search for products and services that align with what you offer.
The consumer has now found your business on Google. It is the responsibility of your website to effectively communicate your benefits to both the consumer needs and over your competitors. Also think about your overall offering. Is it appealing? Whilst SEO can help bring visitors to your website there still needs to be a reason for them to pick up the phone or fill out an enquiry form. If your website is not up to scratch it is highly recommended that this be your first action before going ahead with Search Engine Optimisation. Perth businesses require a conversion friendly website that prominently displays their most compelling points of difference in order to turn as many visitors as possible into leads.
If your website is e-Commerce, you could have converted them on the website and are ready to ship off their purchases. If not, it’s now up to you or your team to answer the phone or respond to enquiries. You’re right in front of a new customer because of your SEO campaign, so go ahead and answer their questions and close the sale. To build an effective sales funnel, you need to make sure that the funnel is at least where the flow is. That’s where having an effective and targeted SEO campaign benefits your business.
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You may be wondering how just a single freelance SEO expert in Perth can outrank their clients’ competitors who are being managed by these big and well-known Perth SEO companies.
The answer is simple: Passion, dedication, patience to do things right the first time around and commitment to put in the extra effort. There is no secret sauce or dark magic driving these results.
SEO may be a new-age form of marketing, but the results are achieved with an old-fashioned work ethic.
They say that “Content is King”. And whoever those guys are, they’re not wrong!
Whilst backlinks and domain strengthening are without a doubt important to a successful Perth SEO campaign; they are the health supplements where your on-page SEO copywriting is the core of the diet.
When Google crawls a website to see how relevant it is to any given keywords/search queries it is scanning the content, the words, on your website to make its decision on where you should rank. SEO copywriting is more than just stuffing those keywords into existing content. It is about proving (not tricking) to Google that this is the best and most relevant website for your targeted keywords.
Special care is taken to the SEO copywriting and is treated as the first priority in any SEO experts’ strategy. The quality of content is constantly being revised and the impact it has on a website’s rankings continually monitored.
The content on any website also has to make sense and have a clear and concise call to actions, which is why SEO copywriting is absolutely the last thing you ever want to consider outsourcing to a non-native English speaking resource outside of Australia.
Google’s algorithm is constantly evolving so that it serves the most trustworthy and relevant websites to its users. Google evaluates how trustworthy and relevant a website is by assessing its front end (the website itself) and the back end (backlinks).
Most SEO consultants and even the big Perth SEO companies will spend a lot of time building as many backlinks to your website as possible. Expert SEO is smarter than that and pays close attention to detail when refining the back end of a website.
This is where a fusion with more traditional Marketing and Public Relations techniques kick in to obtain natural and high quality links to strengthen your website. My philosophy is simple; Instead of creating as many backlinks as possible, I spend my time ensuring that all backlink created are as strong and as organically acquired as possible.
It’s less about link building and more about link earning. The approach is quality over quantity. Every time.
My approach means that your campaign will be shielded from both manual and algorithm derived penalties. I build my campaigns to perform long term.
Search Engine Optimisation builds up your website’s organic search visibility which remains present 24/7 and is unhindered by advertising budgets. If you find yourself running a paid search campaign and continually being limited by your daily budget, then Search Engine Optimisation is a fantastic long term strategy to maximise the free traffic available through Google and to decrease your dependancy on cost per click or cost per thousand mediums.
Wondering if Search Engine Optimisation is worth the initial investment, maintenance and will provide enough business to generate a return on your investment? Get in touch today for SEO advice and know that your business will only be recommended to commence SEO where there is enough search volumes to generate a healthy ROI and ranking your site on the first page of Google is realistically achievable (based on the strength of your competition). | 2019-04-20T05:21:54Z | https://doyledigital.com.au/seo/ |
So, what’s your go-to cheesecake recipe? This Kraft Canada recipe for a Nilla Prailine Cheesecake is hands-down mine. I’ve made it on several occasions and it’s constantly a head-turner (and tummy rumbler). Get the recipe here! | 2019-04-19T12:28:03Z | https://sweetmivi.com/2012/11/13/nilla-praline-cheesecake/ |
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I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
I seek leave to move a motion to take note of Senator Cash's response to my question on the Nauru RPC. I indicate that I'd like to make a five-minute statement to that motion. Leave not granted.
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being no such request, we will move on to the discovery of formal business.
I seek to add the names of Senators Wong, Farrell and Gallagher to notice of motion No. 641 standing in my name.
I present additional information received by the Community Affairs References Committee for its inquiry into the future of rugby union in Australia.
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 8 of 2017, Referrals made 2017.
The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees.
Pursuant to order, I now call Senator Bartlett to make his first speech and ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies be extended to him.
The question is that amendments (1) to (3) on sheet 8317 revised be agreed to.
I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time.
Debates in the Senate are an opportunity for Senators from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues. | 2019-04-19T16:58:49Z | https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?d=2017-12-05 |
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Imagine being a teacher, with scant teaching materials, standing before a classroom full of 150 7-year-olds.
This is the norm in 10 primary schools in the Mbale area of eastern Uganda. How much learning can possibly take place when all there is to work with is the four walls?
Quite a lot, actually, with some creative use of space. Starting two years ago, with ChildFund working in consultation with the Ugandan department of education, teachers in these schools began to turn the very classrooms into teaching aids — by posting subject matter directly onto the walls. Artists were hired to start with, but teachers and students later took on the designs and artwork themselves.
Now, instead of a teacher trying to engage a handful of the dozens of students crowded into a room, he can direct the class’s attention to images, charts, letters and numbers that are on the walls for everyone to see. From one end of the room to another, children wait eagerly for the teacher to call on any one of them, perhaps to identify a fish or a teakettle, or to put together the letters that form their names.
Or, while the teacher works with a small group, pupils may lead other small groups in quizzes, object identification and matching activities. Students learn independently as well, musing on the pictures and charts to make connections on their own.
Baluka, a third grader at one of the schools, says that the “talking walls” have made learning easier because students can see and read for themselves rather than trying to learn solely from what the teacher says. Other students report improvement in performance — and that they actually like attending class.
Mr. Kamwada, a second-grade teacher, praises the sharpened observation skills he sees in his students. Mr. Mwima, who teaches third grade, sees greater motivation and lower absenteeism.
The hodgepodge of pictures, numerals and letters adorning the walls has transformed these classrooms into much more child-friendly spaces, so it’s no wonder that even more children have come from nearby schools.
Before, many students would leave first grade not knowing how to read and write. Now the 10 Mbale schools can cite improvements in attendance, learning, quality and retention. ChildFund has helped teachers and students expand the capacity of a mere four walls. | 2019-04-23T08:36:29Z | https://www.childfund.org/media/articles/current/2010/If_the_Walls_Could_Talk.aspx |
What a whirlwind adventure I’ve been on in the last two weeks. From swimming in the Dead Sea in Israel to trekking gorillas in Bwindi, Uganda, I feel like I’ve been part of The Amazing Race. I have so much to share, both good and bad, but I’m still sitting in the airport in Israel waiting to continue my long journey home so you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer to see what’s really happening on my end. The hurry up and wait attitude of airport life is taxing, but it’s worth every second when you get to experience such things as trekking chimpanzees and gorillas, touching the Western Wall in Jerusalem, floating in the Dead Sea, and watching elephants roam alongside the road. Have you always dreamed of seeing apes in their natural habitat? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to walk through Jerusalem? Stay tuned this week for it all. Here’s a quick teaser to bring the last two weeks of my life to you.
Full posts to come along with stories of mud slides, charging gorillas, unique markets, cultural gems, and hungry hippos.
This entry was posted in Adventure, Africa, Asia, Israel, Travel, Uganda and tagged Africa, Africa Adventure Safaris, African Safari, bucketlist, Chimpanzee Trekking, Gorilla Trekking, Irael, Jerusalem, Uganda by lesleycarter. Bookmark the permalink.
Gorgeous photos as always. I once had the chance to float in the Dead Sea and didn’t do it. How foolish I was, but I was only a kid. Wish I could have a do-over on that one. I look forward to reading of these adventures.
Magnifique ~ cannot wait to hear more !
I’m looking forward to more– words and pictures.
Oh, how I love your picture of the market in Jerusalem!
Gorillas! I can’t wait to hear about it.
Sounds exciting and looking forward to the posts!
The elephant photo is worthy of National Geographic!
What an exciting adventure! Can’t wait to read about it.
Love the photos – what an incredible journey.
Looks great can’t wait for the stories to match.
I would love to go to Jerusalem but hubby has no desire to go there!
If you get a chance you should watch the documentary called Virunga…it’s on Netflix and is well worth the effort to see.
I heard a lot about Uganda.But I never visited.If I get a chance to visit there.It’s a dream come true. | 2019-04-19T03:00:13Z | http://bucketlistpublications.org/2015/05/10/whirlwind-adventures-from-israel-to-uganda/?shared=email&msg=fail |
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Durin' the last couple weeks, the peeps have been havin' some stuff done in the yard and whatnot. Stuff that either they couldn't manage themselves or just never got around to doin'. That sort of thing.
I'm of mixed feelings 'bout this whole business. On the one paw, it's nice to see things finally gettin' done. On the other paw, it means there are peeps on my property who are not my own personal peeps. Peeps who I can't always control. Peeps who are not necessarily charmed by my charmin' personality and willin' to wait upon me, hand and paw. MOUSES!
What's more, havin' been born feral, I'm not big on stranger peeps. Not that they're strange or anythin'. I'm assumin' they're perfectly normal. I just don't know 'em. That's makes 'em strangers, to me.
And when you're tryin' to avoid havin' the stranger peeps see you, supervising 'em can be very difficult. In fact, it's almost impossible. It's hard to tell 'em what to do when you're too scared to talk to 'em. MOUSES!
Perhaps had I been a bit braver 'bout bein' seen and heard, our new loo would, in fact, be a loo. Or at least a nip bed. Instead, it's just gonna be a plain ol' flower bed filled with inedible flowers, without a nip plant in sight.
Of course, I can't really blame stranger peeps for the lack of nip and loos. I'm pretty sure Peep #1 had somethin' to do with that. Again I say, MOUSES!
So I thought long and hard about the catastrophe that is the looless loo and realised, I was gonna have to make my presence known. Stranger peeps or not, I was gonna have to make an appearance.
I waited until my peeps and the stranger peep of the day were sittin' on the veranda, havin' coffee. I figured I'd be safe. It was familiar territory and I could count on my own personal peeps bein' under my control. I mean, surely they wouldn't show me up in front of company, right?
Well actually, it was right. The nightmare I encountered had nothin' to do with my peeps. It was a bird.
Anywho... Late Thursday mornin', I walked onto the veranda, eyeing the three peeps sittin' there, all in a row. Peep #1 immediately said my name and encouraged me to come in a little further. I knew this was a good sign 'cause she would never in a million - or even a billion and yes, she is old enough for me to say that - years encourage me to come closer to someone who would hurt me. I knew right away that the stranger peep must be a good stranger peep and someone who liked and appreciated cats. I figured I was safe.
Seville, not one to want to miss out on anythin', followed behind me.
And then it happened. Out of nowhere came the roar of a somethin' so loud and obnoxious it was deafening beyond belief. The noise was everywhere. Above me, to my right, to my left... It sounded like it was even under my paws. My eyes grew wide with fear and I started to panic. I wanted to run but didn't know where. The sound was everywhere. To where could I escape?
I noticed that Seville was scared, too, although not nearly as panicked as I. I'm gonna have to have the peep check him for ear mites. I think he must be hard of hearin' or somethin'.
The cries of the flyin' beast were bouncin' off the walls, floor and ceilin' of the veranda. They were reverberating everywhere. There was nowhere safe to hide.
I looked over at my fist peep thinkin' that maybe she was caterwaulin'. She had gone to caterwaulin' practise the previous night and although her practicin' had never before been quite that horrible, there's always a first for everything.
Peep #1's mouth was closed. She wasn't caterwaulin'. The noise was not coming from her. She looked concerned for me but not scared for herself or anythin'. Clearly the peep was insane.
I realised that the only thing to do was to make a run for it. On the veranda was my marmie brother who had apparently become hard of hearin', a stranger peep and my personal peeps with at least one of 'em havin' gone crazy. The veranda was no place for me.
I tossed aside any thoughts of supervisin' the peeps that day and ran. I ran as fast as my little paws would carry me. I ran and I ran and I ran until I was safe and sound in the backyard, hidin' under the deck. The noisy and terrifyin' beast wasn't gonna get me.
As for the peeps, they were welcome to join me under the deck but as they showed no inclination to follow, I figured they'd be consumed by the beast. I crossed my claws that they had had the foresight to have a good supply of food in the house and wondered if I'd be able to figure out how to open the tins. How hard could it be?
Eventually, the angry cries of the beast faded off into the distance and an hour or so later, I ventured out from under the deck. I discovered that my peeps and the stranger peep had all survived the attack. Seville was safe, too, as was the rest of my fur family.
It turned out that the terrifyingly noisy beast of my nightmare of all nightmares was, in fact, a bird. A big ol' metal bird from the nearby air force base. It was flyin' a little lower than normal, I guess, and that's why it had been so loud. Peep #1 explained all this to me.
Just how low do they have to fly? MOUSES! Had I known it was a plane and not the monster of all monsters, I would have thought the thing was gonna land. Land right there on my lawn or somethin'. Or maybe even on the street.
Peep #1 suggested that perhaps the pilot was tryin' to get a glimpse of me, the world-famous bloggin' cat. I suggested to the peep that if they wanted to see me that badly, she could take a picture and show it to 'em. A nice quiet, noiseless picture that wasn't so scary.
I'm thinkin' that this week, I'll get the stranger peep to head up onto the roof of house and paint the words, "If you can read this, you're flyin' too low." That should do the trick, I think. Yup, that should do the trick, for sure.
On second thought, I can do that myself. I'm sure there's some paint in the garage. I'll just grab a can and a brush and head on up. I've been up there before. Actually, I've been up there quite often.
Best thing about my paintin' the message myself is that the peeps will never know. They never jump up there themselves, you see. Just hope no one flyin' a plane mentions to my peeps that there's a newly painted message on said roof. I can just imagine the noises Peep #1 would make upon hearin' that news. Yeah, I can just imagine. MOUSES!
Sometimes planes fly too low here, never thought about leaving them a message like that.
I do believe you are very brave, Nerissa. Have a lovely Sunday.
Hey, when it comes to real work I do think running and hiding is a good option Nerissa!
"If you can read this, you're flyin' too low!!" LOVE that! You have one brilliant cat! If the little rascal does go up on the roof & paint the sign, don't call her out on it! It is imperative for her wee ears! They were ringing like crazy from the Big Metal Flyin Bird!
We think you absolutely made the right choice about running. And what a great idea to write that message on the roof. That should work. You all have a great week.
We would have been scared, too. Those planes can be very loud. You did the right thing by hiding out til it was over. A kitteh can never be too careful!
Hope the rest of your weekend was an easy one.
Good thinking. We live 20 minutes from HPN where lots of private jets land and sometimes they get way too close to us.
That sounds very scary Nissy.
Once many years ago when we were walking in the fields with mum, a helicopter flew very low. He was checking the overhead mainline power cables and Eric thought it was chasing him. He ran and found a hollow part of a tree trunk in a hedge and hid himself in there and wouldn't come back out. Mum thought he had got himself jammed in there, but after a while he reversed out.
Those are some super cool sun shades you are sporting!
Run and hide, best advice ever. We agree with that. Maybe give a little hiss too if you have time.
How scary was that! We wouldn't have liked that at all, either.
This reminds Mommy of the time a helicopter flew low (REALLY low) when she was at work. Her work place is a "no-fly zone" on accounta terrorism--so Mommy was pretty hissed off and shot 'em DA BIRD! Boy were they surprised. Anyhoo, we think a message will work just fine...it did for Mommy!
First off, your peeps should make sure anyone they hire to work has to sign a paper agreeing to do anything you want them to do. Secondly, have them paint the sign, you shouldn't have to work so hard. Now go get some rest after that ordeal, but first come visit us at 15andmeowing for a contest.
That is way to scary Nissy! We have them fly over here sometimes and they are really loud and scary! Hope you get that paint can up on the roof soon!
Me, I run & hide first !
Aaaaaaw Nissy so sowwy yous got scawed and da plane had to fly dat low. But meez suwe glad yous all safe. :) Hv a pawsum week.
Whoa, Nissy! That metal bird has no business flying that low to you...no wonder you high-tailed it under the deck!
Well, that was kind of rude of the plane flying humans, I think!
But if your panting a message why not something like 'drop nip'?!
You have tomwatch thkse mechanical birds!
Those metal birds sure are scary. We don't blame you for hiding under the deck. We would have done the same.
oh, great bast! we feels fur you!! we useta liff inna "flight path" (whatefur that is, it just looks like trees an' houses to us) fur the local air port, so we was under constant attack by those giant metal birds! sounds like you haff a great plan to convince them to get back up where they belong. please let us know how it werks out, an' what peep #1 sez when they finds white paint catfootprints ... be careful onnat roof! | 2019-04-22T20:03:05Z | https://www.nerissaslife.com/2014/09/the-flyin-monster.html |
I’ll be back soon with some updates on all the stuff I’ve been doin and makin!
I love your sign - it's one of my favorite quotes ever! I have been dreaming up a sign I wanna make soon with this same quote!
I've just had a snoop around your blog, your projects are amazing! Your home is fab, loving the stair banisters! | 2019-04-22T01:27:06Z | http://www.northerncottage.net/2011/02/choices-made-happiness-in-gear_28.html |
Basappa Laxman Vaddagol aged 23 who has been blind since childhood has been selected for the national team in the B1 category, and will play in the world cup organised in Pakistan and Dubai between January 7 to 21.
He is currently working as the SDA in the gram panchayat office in Markandey Nagar and he is an all-rounder.
He has been encouraged by the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled to play cricket since 2013. He also has three brothers who are also blind.
Bassappa will represent India and nine teams from the world will be participating the matches.
So proud of u my Friend…wish u all the very best…! | 2019-04-20T03:22:06Z | https://allaboutbelgaum.com/sports/visually-challenged-cricketer-basappa-vaddagol-selected-world-cup-squad/ |
Arrive in Bagdogra airport / New Jalpaiguri railway station and transfer to Darjeeling, which conjures visions of serenity, of vibrant green hills steeped in splendour, a land of breathtaking beauty crowned by the majestic Himalayas. Arrive and proceed to your hotel. Overnight stay at hotel.
Early morning (03:30 hrs) visit Tiger Hills to witness the spectacular sunrise over the Kangchendzonga mountains. On return, visit the famous Ghoom Monastery and the Batasia loop. After breakfast visit the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, P N Zoological Park (Closed on Thursday), Tenzing Rock, Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre (Closed on Sunday), Tea Garden (Outer View), Ropeway(entry fees for ropeway ride not included) & Japanese Temple. Rest of the day at leisure. Overnight stay at hotel.
In the morning you will be transferred by road to Gangtok, which is literally the “lofty hill” set amidst the clouds and mists of the splendorous Himalayas and is a gateway to Sikkim, situated at an height of 5,500 feet. Proceed to your hotel and rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight stay at hotel.
After breakfast start for excursion to Tsogmo Lake (12,400 ft.) a holy lake worshipped by the Sikkimese. & Baba Mandir (13,200 ft.) dedicated to an old soldier of the Indian Army. Enjoy an optional yak ride around the lake. Overnight stay at hotel.
In the morning proceed to Tashi viewpoint which offers a spectacular view of the mountains, Ganesh Tok and Hanuman Tok, Do Drul Chortan, Flower Show, Cottage Industry & Handicraft Centre, Institute of Tibetology, Enchay Monastery & Lastly you may opt for any one of the sightseeing between Rumtek Monastery OR Banjhakhri Falls.Overnight stay at hotel.
Transfer to Bagdogra airport / New Jalpaiguri railway station for your journey back home. | 2019-04-20T02:16:49Z | http://travdoor.com/portfolio/eastern-chills/ |
With so many things to do in Garda, it's important to choose a good Hotel.
With a garden, B&B Villa De Ade is located in Garda, a 15-minute walk from Lake Garda. Free WiFi access is available in all areas. Each room here will provide you with a flat-screen TV, air conditioning and a balcony. | 2019-04-20T13:11:19Z | http://www.travelmagma.com/italy/?action=hotels;hotel=815322 |
It’s a renowned fact that artificial intelligence is continuously on the rise, especially in the business world. While AI is still relevant to different sectors, other than businesses, the growth of it is certainly undeniably strong and it is expected to only rise from this point onwards. With the introduction of artificial intelligence, there have been several positive changes that people have seen in the world – both for working individuals and others. However, the real question is, exactly how beneficial is artificial intelligence and what is expected to become of it in the near future?
According to experts, there are several benefits of AI technology in the world today as well as in the near future. Contrary to popular belief, however, the belief that AI technology is going to jeopardize the careers of several human beings is simply a myth due to obvious reasons which will be elaborated later in this blog.
Data scientist, artificial intelligence educator, author and YouTube star Siraj Raval knows the efficacy of artificial intelligence better than many people today. What does he do with this knowledge? He spreads it and educates the general public through the School of AI which was founded by Siraj Raval. Raval also makes it a point to ensure that the information is open to all so that plenty of people are prepared for the future that is to come. Read on to find out the benefits of AI.
If there’s anything that the average person can count on AI technology for, it’s an enhanced lifestyle for sure. The introduction of AI has shed a lot of light on the ways in which human beings can actually improve their lifestyle in the best of ways – refining it as they go on. Smart homes are definitely on the list in this regard, and what was once just a concept can be seen coming to life now.
As much as one would like to contradict the statement, it is obvious that the leading factor that is causing many young as well as old human beings a heavy amount of stress is the workload and responsibilities that are bestowed upon their shoulders. People are seen slacking simply because there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it all. In fact, many young individuals happen to be under so much stress that their mental health is at risk. With AI technology, the tables are likely to turn in favor of human beings.
Due to the basic fact that a human being is prone to thinking too much or dealing with too many things at once, they are likely to feel demotivated or simply uninspired which can really cause them an array of problems. Not only does this cause them to feel overworked, but it also means that the quality of their work will suffer regardless. AI technology will be able to increase efficiency while also ensuring perfection along the way.
So, these are some benefits that one can take advantage of with the introduction of AI technology. | 2019-04-20T22:29:14Z | http://freetechaid.com/1203/benefits-of-ai-technology/ |
We've rounded up the best zoos and wildlife parks in Broom in our quest to discover brilliant family attractions and places to visit near you. There are 8 Broom zoos and wildlife parks to pick from. Alternatively, why not explore some other animals days out nearby, including safari parks, aquariums or petting zoos. Find the perfect places to go with your kids and get out on your next adventure!
If you've visited one of these zoos and wildlife parks in Broom , please consider leaving a review on the attraction page to help others plan their next fun day out. | 2019-04-23T01:53:00Z | https://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/things-to-do/yorkshire/south-yorkshire/broom/animals/zoos-wildlife-parks |
Built by Francis Williams and offered with a long lease is this purpose-built top-floor apartment.
Priced at £175,000 and located on Portland Avenue, this apartment comprises entrance vestibule leading to the entrance hallway, lounge with doors leading onto the balcony, and there is a modern fitted kitchen, along with two bedrooms.
Outside there are well maintained communal gardens and a garage. Bradleys estate agents on 01395 222300. | 2019-04-19T05:24:20Z | https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/exmouth-life/property/you-might-also-like-1-4316117 |
The author saw from early on the importance of renewal of the family for the renewal both of the Church and society. As a pastor of souls he had ample opportunity to work with families, especially during his years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This book draws on the riches of the insights he shared with American families, both on education in general and on parenting and education in the family in particular. | 2019-04-25T18:41:56Z | https://www.patrisstore.com/books-1/foundations-of-education-in-the-home |
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Discount Furniture Warehouse and Mattress Outlet in Hilton Head Island, SC is an authorized dealer of Capris Furniture Products. The Capris furniture collection is casual in style. From creating a laid back cozy appeal in your living to rejuvenating your tired body with its bedroom pieces. Capris furniture vibrates an atmosphere of casual relaxation.
So if you are looking for Capris Furniture products in Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, or if you have any questions about Capris Furniture products, please feel free to call us at (843) 681-4620 or simply stop by Discount Furniture Warehouse and Mattress Outlet at any time and we would be glad to help you. | 2019-04-25T09:49:29Z | https://www.hiltonheadfurniture.com/by-brand/cap/Capris-Furniture.html |
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As an appetizer, Durk premieres his new video “How I Know” to get his fans psyched for his first official mixtape as an independent artist.
Lil Durk After spending five years with Def Jam Records, Lil Durk exclusively tells Billboard that he has departed from the label and is going the independent route,During his time at Def Jam, Durk released two albums: Remember My Name in 2015 and Lil Durk 2X in 2016.
Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I’m forever grateful,” Durk says. “But I’m a different artist than I was five years ago, and the time is right for a change.
At the same time, Def Jam is making changes in their offices and trying a new direction. I didn’t want to be a part of another regime change. | 2019-04-25T04:12:43Z | https://web.olagist.co/lil-durk-how-i-know-ft-lil-baby/ |
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When I first began my teaching career, one of the things that surprised me most was the variety of methods that could be used to measure student knowledge. And the number of terms used to describe those methods.
I felt a little overwhelmed initially, but then I realized that what I called it didn’t matter so much as it did to ensure that I was using the correct assessment type, and that the assessment was an accurate way to measure the content or skills I was teaching my students.
Let’s start by answering the basic question: What makes a good assessment? First, you have to know exactly what you’re measuring and make sure your student has been explicitly taught that information. It’s not enough to pick a standard and develop questions that measure that standard. You have to make sure that the standard skill and content align.
Here’s an example. I was teaching 9th grade English Learners whose language skills weren’t quite on grade level. Vocabulary assessments were important to me because they helped me gauge standard skill mastery and showed me each individual student’s growth toward English language proficiency. I was working with the standard CCSS.ELA.RL.9-10.4 (Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text…) when I realized that all the students in my class gave an incorrect answer for one particular question. I had given them a text and asked them to define a word they had not been explicitly taught using context. Normally, this probably would not have been a big deal, but the text contained a multiple meaning word used in a different way than they had learned, and it threw every single student for a loop. I omitted the question from the test and learned a lesson myself.
Next, you have to decide when you’re administering the assessment and the purpose of the assessment. Are you assessing your students before teaching the subject to check their background knowledge to find the correct entry point? Are you assessing them while you’re teaching to formatively assess their progress? Or, are you evaluating them at the end of the unit as a summative assessment?
In my classroom, I typically did all three, but tried to do some of my assessment informally to prevent test fatigue. For example, I’d assess prior or background knowledge using Do Nows or Exit Slips. It was a super quick and easy way to see if a student already knew something about a literary term or a text we were reading. And because the ‘assessment’ was done privately on a sticky note, students felts safe to admit that they did or didn’t know something.
Formative assessments were typically done on an ongoing basis in my classroom. My students did a lot of group work, which gave me the opportunity to walk around the room with a rubric on my clipboard evaluating students discreetly. I knew if a student was too quiet, they probably were unsure of the subject. Or, perhaps it was a comfort issue. But either way, I could pull them aside later and ask them directly about the subject to delve deeper.
Summative assessments were usually done in a more formal way. Because of the range of learners and language skills in my class, I employed a variety of techniques throughout the year to ensure every student’s strength was able to shine: whether it was in a written assessment, oral presentation, role play, visual production, newsletter, or poster, there was always some way students could show off their mastery of the content.
Finally, does the assessment you’ve created allow all diverse learners to demonstrate what they’ve learned? We all know about the variety of learning styles and the range of needs in the average classroom. But for most teachers (myself included) the idea of creating 30 different assessments for 30 different students is simply too overwhelming.
This is where technology can help. With products like ONEder, teachers can create ONE assessment and assign it to each student within a class. With the magic of technology, each student gets a different assessment according to how their profile is set up. That means that the student who needs frequent breaks can get an automatic break during specific parts of the test. The student who needs text to speech will get that feature automatically enabled. Large print? No problem! Need a test read aloud? We can do that one too. Highlighted text? Screen reader? Calculation device? Yes. Yes. Yes.
Remember, at the end of the day, all an assessment is, is a way to measure how much the student knows about something. How you do it, what you call it, and the way you do it is up to you – as long as you ensure it’s fair and accurate!
For more about assessment, check out this article on the Five Characteristics of Quality Educational Assessments from NWEA. Also, this chart from Education Week gives you a really nice overview of the different assessment types.
Pittsburgh Penguins: PreGaming for a Good Cause! | 2019-04-21T14:06:49Z | https://blog.oneder.com/2018/02/13/makes-good-assessment/ |
This package includes the "C&O 2-6-6-6 H8" locomotive.
Quinnimont was a marshalling yard for coal loads from the surrounding mines. Trains were assembled here to be shipped to Clifton Forge and beyond. Empty cars were also made-up here for the mines in the area.
The first European settler on the wide river bottom at Quinnimont, below the mouth of Laurel Fork, was Jacob Smith, who arrived in 1827 and whose family was joined by others a few years later. Smith married three times and begot 24 children. The name "Quinnimont" is derived from the Latin roots for "five mountains," said to describe the five heights formed by the surrounding walls of the New River Gorge.
Quinnimont was one of two towns in the New River Gorge that became major shipping points. The other, at Thurmond, began to develop in the 1890s, while operations at Quinnimont commenced 20 years sooner. Even before the railroad through the gorge had been fully completed to Huntington, the Quinnimont operation was able to ship coal eastward to locations in Virginia.
The first industry in the New River Gorge, the Quinnimont Charter Oak & Iron Company, was organized in 1870 to build and operate an iron furnace at Quinnimont near the mouth of Laurel Creek. A short branch line railroad of about one and half miles was built from the C&O mainline to the mine by the iron company. The furnace operated for only three years, manufacturing common pig iron using coal extracted locally and hematite shipped in from Rich Patch, VA.
Although the iron business was not a financial success the coal of the area proved to be of excellent quality for use in iron production. In 1873, under operation by Colonel Joseph L. Beury, coal mines were opened on the mountain above Laurel Creek, to supply the furnaces of the Longdale Iron Company in Allegheny, VA. From this mine the first shipment of the first coal from the New River Coal Field was made. A monument standing along the bank of the New River at Quinnimont was erected in honor of Col. Beury at a cost of $30,000. The inscription on the monument reads: "The first New River Smokeless Coal was mined and shipped from Fire Creek seam at Quinnimont by Joseph Lawton Beury in 1873. This memorial erected by his associates in the New River Field." The twenty-five foot tall granite monument is said to weigh fifty-five tons. Photos of the Beury Monument can be viewed at NewRiverWV.com.
Beury remained at Quinnimont until 1876, at which time he moved to Fire Creek, where, in association with Messrs. Jenkin Jones, John Freeman, and others, he opened the Fire Creek mine. A circa-1879 map of mines in the New River Coalfield shows the "Pa. & Va. I. & C. Co." as operating a mine near Quinnimont, located about 1.5 from Quinnimont on the south side of Laurel Creek. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, published in 1880, noted that the Quinnimont coking plant of the Pennsylvania and Virginia Iron and Coal Company was at that time the largest in the New River Field, with 100 coke ovens in operation. The May 25th, 1887 edition of the The Coal Trade Journal stated that there were 105 coke ovens in operation at Quinnimont.
A station was established in Quinnimont in 1874, being replaced and supplemented by additional structures beginning in 1896. By the 1890s, a railroad boarding house started operation at Quinnimont and a store was opened. A post office was established at Quinnimont in 1877 which continued to operate until 1947 according to the National Park Service.
The Quinnimont Coal and Iron Company was incorporated in West Virginia on June 23, 1883 by investors of Philadelphia, PA and Hartford, CT to "mine coal and iron, and cut and manufacture lumber". The company's main office were in Philadelphia, and a branch at Quinnimont. The company operated several mines near Quinnimont from 1883 through 1929 named as: Big Q, Old Mine, Quinnimont, Big Q No. 3, and Lickbranch. Several years later, the mine known as "No. 1" showed a period of brief production during the years 1950-1951. Another company, the Quinnimont Coal and Quinnimont Smokeless Coal Co., operated the Quinnimont mine during in 1952 and the Quinnimont Coal Co. operated the No. 1 mine during 1953.
In 1890, the short railroad branch along Laurel Creek was extended to to Brownwood, a distance of 4.8 miles. A large mine would be opened at Layand in later years on this branch, a point about 5.5 from Quinnimont. This short branch line was operated by the mining company until 1899. From 1899 until 1902 the C&O leased the branch line and assumed operation of the line. From 1902 until 1906, the mining company resumed operation of the railroad. In 1907 the line was sold to the C&O, and thereafter known as the Laurel Creek Branch.
It was not until 1901 that the C&O completed the Piney Creek branch line from Quinnimont into the yet-untapped coal fields of Raleigh County in the vicinity of Beckley, WV. From the railroad's Piney branch, additional branch lines were soon opened, which resulted in the railroad building a large marshaling yard and locomotive servicing terminal at Raleigh, about 11 miles from Quinnimont. Because of this, the terminal facilities at Quinnimont remained modest compared the Thurmond's. However, like Thurmond, Quinnimont became a major staging area for inbound and outbound freight. All the coal coming off the Piney Creek Subdivision (and it branches) and from the Laurel Creek Branch moved into Quinnimont's large rail yard, to be made up into trains by switching crews at Quinnimont.
Trains were often up to a 130 cars in length which would be hauled to Hinton where they would pick up a helper engine for the trip up to Allegheny on the way to Clifton Forge.
By the 1920s, many of the people living in Quinnimont worked on the railroad, on runs to Thurmond or on the Laurel Creek or Piney branch lines and Quinnimont.
Quinnimont had a store, post office, church, and two schools. Two passenger trains ran daily from Quinnimont to Beckley, and another ran up Laurel Creek to Layand. | 2019-04-21T22:01:32Z | https://store.trainzportal.com/products/quinnimont-coal-drag |
In a study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology of 36 patients treated at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for paintball injuries to the eye, the injuries were often severe. Eighty one percent of patients needed surgery � including enucleation (removal of the eye). The rest had a rupture of the eyeball or detached retina (light-sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye). Although normal vision was restored in 36% of eyes, the majority had permanent visual loss. | 2019-04-26T07:45:21Z | http://www.desertvistaeye.com/optical-updates/78/Paintball%20injury%20can%20cause%20severe%20or%20permanent%20vision%20loss |
We gave away a bunch of beta keys for this one -- who redeemed one? If you did, then give yourself a pat on the back for helping the team over at Ronimo Games make sure everything was good to go for the full release.
You've tried the beta, now enter for your chance to win a full copy of Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon!
Third time's a charm, slackers!
To enter to win, comment below telling us who stole your shawarma. I know for a fact that my neighbor, Jerry, broke into my house while I was sleeping and stole it out of my fridge. I'm currently busy preparing the troops to send over to his house in a single-file line.
We have five Steam copies to give out. Winners will be drawn on Sunday, November 11. Make sure you comment using a Dtoid account that has your current email address on file. If I have to do any work to give you a free game, I'm sending my single-file soldiers after you once they're done with Jerry. | 2019-04-21T18:59:14Z | https://www.destructoid.com/contest-win-a-steam-copy-of-swords-and-soldiers-2-530258.phtml |
We are looking to deepen and broaden the coverage of Indian companies on the blog. The most recent post on Indian product entrepreneurs puts our aims in the context of the recent competitive landscape. For the rest of this week’s post, click on the full article.
Entrepreneur: Have You Talked To Your Prospects Today?
Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 108th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 15, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us! | 2019-04-25T13:51:17Z | https://www.sramanamitra.com/2011/12/11/catching-up-on-readings-indian-entrepreneurs-we-want-to-hear-from-you/ |
AN AUTISTIC man charged with a murder claims he was threatened by knife-wielding intruders demanding drugs and money, a court has heard.
David Matchett is accused of killing 21-year-old Reece Leeman, who died from stab wounds after collapsing at Connsbrook Drive in east Belfast early on Friday morning.
But Mr Matchett (28) alleges he acted in self-defence following a struggle at his home on nearby Kyle Street.
A judge was also told how the defendant knew the deceased and remained at the scene until police arrived.
Appearing before Belfast magistrates' court alongside a registered intermediary, Matchett spoke only to confirm he understood single charge of murder.
A detective inspector opposed bail by claiming he posed an "unmanageable" risk of harm to himself and the public.
She said that while in custody he made comments about killing himself and admitted being a regular cannabis user.
"Police believe controlled drugs played an important part in the offence," the detective added.
Defence solicitor Hugh Edgar said Mr Matchett gave an account of two men forcing their way into his home while he was in bed and demanding cannabis and money.
"He makes the case that he was threatened with a knife that was brandished at him," the lawyer submitted.
"He grabbed the blade of the knife as it swiped across his face, just missing him."
Mr Matchett sustained lacerations to his hand during the encounter, according to his solicitor.
The detective confirmed that one of the alleged intruders has been questioned about a suspected aggravated burglary at the Kyle Street address, but says he denies they came to the house with any knife.
Mr Edgar told the court his client was the victim of the break-in by two men wearing hoods and scarves.
"He's a vulnerable young man in his own house at 1am and this trouble comes to him," he said.
"There's an altercation after which both men leave the house, and when Mr Matchett realises the gravity of the situation, because one of the two men has fallen by that stage, he rings police and stays at the scene."
The accused has also shown remorse over what happened, the court was told.
"Mr Matchett expressed his condolences because, as it turned out, he knew the deceased," his solicitor added.
"This is a tragic case and no-one is more aware of that than my client."
Police also disclosed that a knife was discovered in a wheelie bin behind Mr Matchett's house, which the defence disputes was an attempt to conceal the alleged murder weapon.
District Judge Oonagh Mullan heard the accused changed out of pyjama bottoms into trousers because he knew he was going to be taken to a PSNI station.
Granting bail under strict conditions, she cited the "rather unusual" circumstances where Mr Matchett phoned police and then alleged cooperated.
She ordered that he is not to be released from custody until a passport is surrendered and a £750 cash surety is lodged today.
Mr Matchett is due back in court in two weeks time. | 2019-04-24T18:36:51Z | http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/03/19/news/man-accused-of-east-belfast-murder-claims-he-acted-in-self-defence-after-being-threatened-with-a-knife-1575665/ |
Scheduled to open in March 2017, Jersey City downtown will be introducing the original extended stay brand, The Residence Inn, brought to us by Marriot corporation. The extended stay hotel will provide amenities such as a fitness center, dining area –including breakfast, meeting rooms, and more.
Planning your next big trip, whether it is for business or pleasure, should not be a stressful process and being aware of your accommodation options only expedites planning and reserving your room so that your accommodations are the least of your worries. As a corporate housing company, we have insider knowledge, because of being in the industry, about temporary accommodations & short/long term stays, that we can share with you so that you can plan your next trip feeling secure and informed.
What are extended stay hotels or also referred to as apartment hotels?
Extended stay hotels are also called apartment hotels and often an extension of a hotel brand. For instance, the first extended stay hotel by Marriot corporation is the chain called The Residence Inn. The name “apartment hotel” truly sums up the accommodation –an apartment style temporary accommodation; normally equipped with a kitchenette, bedroom, bathroom, self service laundry area and with the simplicity of reserving the room, like a hotel, while avoiding any fixed contracts. These accommodations are residential style hotels including all of the personalized services in a complete home and allowing occupants to live just as they would at home.
When it comes to lengthier stays, staying in an accommodation that allows for a comfortable, home-like atmosphere may be the best choice for you. When choosing which type of accommodation is best for you, many aspects come into play such as cost efficiency, self-service amenities and independence, and comfort.
It could be less expensive to stay in an apartment suite, as opposed to a hotel, due to discounts and self-service features available.
For your next trip, consider all of your accommodation options. Keep in mind, you are not restricted to staying in a hotel, consider apartment hotels or corporate housing accommodations.
Don’t let the stress of reserving accommodations make the planning process more worrisome than necessary. It is your trip; whether it is for work or vacation, you get to choose what you’re doing, where you’re staying, and how you do it. | 2019-04-19T03:08:00Z | https://dharmahomesuites.com/extended-stay-accommodations/ |
With other products, migration may involve recoding and retesting with only a subset of functionality. But our new Suprtool/Open is a complete migration of Suprtool. See the latest information at: Suprtool/Open.
April Newsletter The April 2019 Newsletter is out and has been distributed, with lots of good feedback.
More work has been done to extend Qedit to work properly beyond 2027 date limitation on HP 3000.
Qedit for HP-UX now writes out the size of a fixed length file when making a file fixed length, with set keep var off. It will also write out a file as to whether or not Line Feeds are on or off. The files are local to your working directory under the names .qxrecsize and .qxlf.
The Qedit for Windows Server login now supports PAM, which in turn supports LDAP login.
Suprtool has a new function called $length that will return a double integer value of the length of a byte and/or numeric field.
The $ROBELLE variable has been expanded to 58 characters.
Suprtool has a new option called Set EditSignNeutral which tells the $edit function to treat Neutral zoned and packed fields to be positive and treated as such by the $edit function.
Suprlink now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and the link file.
Stexport now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and output files.
Suprtool now supports Eloquence B.08.30, and the following options for BYTEORDER are also supported, NATIVE,COBOL,BE,BE2,BEDATA, BEDATA2.
I got a chuckle when I read your chronology of the HP3000, and in particular this message on the webpage brought a smile.
Early in my career with HP (I started in 1975), I was attending training in Cupertino, and toured the area where the HP3000 units were in final test. These were the original HP3000 units, before the HP3000 CX. They had wire-wrapped boards, and all of the sudden, none of the machines would run for more than a short time.
When a wire wrap board is manufactured, the operator of the wire-wrap machine will insert a wire into the unit, then place the units small cylinder over a pin on the back of the board (the boards looked like a bed of nails onto back, with a pin for every connection that was possible). The operator would then pull a trigger to cause the wire to be wrapped around the pin, stripping the insulation from the wire as it was wrapped. The operator would then route the wire to the pin it was to be connected with, and repeated the process. You could wrap several wires on the same pin, so that the signal could be sent to other pins.
My memory was that there was one operator who did the wire wrapping for every HP3000 made. HP manufacturing engineering folks were in a panic, because none of the newly made HP3000 units would work, and no one knew why.
I remember the revelation when it was found that only the neat looking boards failed, the messy ones seemed to work OK. The wire-wrap operator had decided to improve the aesthetics of her work, and began to route the wires vertically and horizontally to make the resulting boards look neat and tidy. She did not realize that when two wires are routed side by side, interference will be transmitted from one wire to a neighboring wire. When the wires are routed point to point, and not vertically and horizontally, the wires typically cross one another, and no cross talk.
When we had new boards made, and requested that the wires be routed "point to point, everything started to work again. It was not very long until the wire wrap boards were replaced with printed circuit boards.
I read with interest your article about the history of the 3000. Of particular interest was the part that said "The Alpha was announced as the HP 3000 with a fancy cabinet of pizza-oven doors, available in four colors.".
I once saw a HP 3000 which was multiple cabinets, each of which had many wood-grain doors which were the 19" width of the rack by perhaps 10" high, each of which had an Ace lock (round key, like on vending machines). I be- lieve that at least some of the compartments behind these doors held wire- wrap boards, not etched PCBs. The "console" was a table with a pair of CRTs in the middle, and to the left and right of these CRTs were large panels full of LEDs, with stenciled-and-varnished designations for each LED. I was told that one CRT was reserved for maintenance functions, while the other was the OS operator's console.
Does this ring any bells? Was this a prototype? It doesn't sound anything like any other description of a 3000 that I've read.
This would have been in 1974 or 1975..."
Dave Wiseman has announced a meeting of SIGBAR in June in Silicon Valley, funnily enough I had just signed up for the Silicon Valley Gran Fondo which will be on the same weekend.
We had such good times together for 25 years - I bought an HP3000 Series II for Commercial Union Assurance in the 1970s and stayed within the community until the early 2000s with Proactive and Millware - and it would be great to meet all our old friends again.
We are planning a social meeting in June 22-23 in the Santa Clara/Cupertino area, exact venue to be decided when we know numbers. There may be a small charge for the venue hire and we have two optional excursions we can organise for a small charge. Please use the link below to express your interest and book your flights NOW.
2. Remember the company at 19220 Pruneridge in Cupertino? Well, we have organised a tour of the address, which is now the Apple HQ visitor centre and will even hire a bus to and from the venue if enough people are interested. The charge will be around $10-$15 for the transportation.
Wherever the event is held, we will organise food and drinks to be available for purchase. Lastly, if a few vendors who made their money from the community could help sponsor the event we may be able to pay for all of this.
The latest newsletter has been posted to the Newsletter page, but you can read directly from this link.
The January 2018 Newsletter has been send out to all our customers. It has some excellent articles, of note is an article on AI from Gavin Scott.
STExport has a new set command called Set Excel Leadzero On which tells the Excel command to add leading zeroes to the fields specified in the Excel Preserve command.
Suprtool has a new function available to the if/extract commands called $inrecnum, which expects a double integer result.
Suprtool has a new function called $leadzeroz, which will add leading zeroes to a display field and will optionally justify the field.
Suprtool has a four new string handling functions, specifically, $justifyl, $justifyr, $leadzerob and $respace.
Set BackwardChain On tells Suprtools chain command to do a backward chained read.
The Add Command to add data to an Oracle table would fail on some tables with an abort if there were a large number of tables in the database.
Set AMXW Perfwrite would cause Suprtool for AMXW to fail with fserr 40 incorrectly when using output file,append.
Set SDEXTNAME on now prints a warning in Suprtool for AMXW, since it is not supported in that version.
Suprtool for AMXW will test for both long fieldnames and short fieldnames when parsing the $lookup function.
Suprtool/Open now has the ability to read Self-Describing files from HP-UX natively on Linux. Suprtool / Open can also create Self-Describing files for use on HP-UX with Set SDOutIsBe On.
Suprtool/Open now has the ability to read Flat files from HP-UX and natively handle Big Endian Integer and Logical fields with Set FFISBE On.
Suprtool/Open can handle and create BigEndian Logical fields with Set EndianLog On.
A new utility to convert the version number and field information for HP-UX Self-Describing files to be used on Linux natively called sdlinux.
The Output,num option in Suprtool / Open, would not work if the input source was a self-describing or a flat file.
On Suprtool/Open an Output file would have a null written in the last byte incorrectly if the output file was an uneven byte length aSuprtool / Open now has the ability to read Self-Describing files from HP-UX natively on Linux. Suprtool / Open can also create Self-Describing files for use on HP-UX with Set SDOutIsBe On.
Added to the daily support issues page is a quick tip on using variables inside suprtool and another tip on how to get the hour from the date command.
See the Daily Support Issues HPUX Variables.
We have released a new Suprtool Pre-Release in the last week or so. Suprtool has a few new text handling functions and some new features in the handling of leading zeroes. A final new feature is you can extract the input record number as a double integer and you can also test via the if command.
We have started a new page which will outline Daily Support Issues that come up. Hopefully what helps one customer will help another.
A new version of Qedit 6.2 and Suprtool 5.9 have been installed into production. Qedit has a very important security update in the Qedit for HP-UX server. Suprtool, has a new $month function, STExport has JSON support and other new features.
Our robelle.com mail service is currently down, but it is being worked on currently. You can reach me at: neilpatrickarmstrong@gmail.com for any and all questions.
I recently needed to remove a bunch of spaces and needed to compress some data down and found that tr -s was exactly what I needed.
Although this may not be exactly what you need it certainly helped me compress down some data and get ride of a lot of extraneous spaces.
This was done due to a direct request from one of our customers. One of the features of this is that if a month does not have the same number of days, Suprtool will find the closest date. For Example, if the +1 is invoked for a date that is say August 31st, the resulting date would be "September 31", which is of course incorrect. Suprtool will adjust the date to be a correct date of September 30th.
The Append command sticks a Tilde on the end of the line, and the glue command, glues the line after the Transaction line onto the end. Tilde is used since it isn't often in normal files, you can look to insure that the tilde is not in the file with a simple: ch "~"~" @, to see if there are any occurences.
We specify Decimal Nine thru to Decimal 13, which is Tab thru to Line Feed, we use $findclean to find the entries and we update and run the extract of the e-mail address thru the $clean function and the data gets fixed and updated in one easy step.
Have our website generate your Suprtool code for you. We three new forms to help generate code, Standard Suprlink Task, Select using a table, and Update using a Table. See our Code Generation Page.
Suprtool 5.8.11 is now available as a pre-release. You can read a summary of What is New, in What's New.
The Robelle Web Site has been updated using Bootstrap 4, to provide a more Mobile friendly look and feel. As always please send feedback to neil@robelle.com.
The latest Robelle Newsletter is now available.
We've been busy adding new features to the Suprtool Suite of products, namely with the JSON option in STExport and more recently we've added access to MYSQL databases in Suprtool/Open.
We are looking for anyone who has MYSQL data and knows a little about Suprtool. We are looking at what to do with certain fields and how to handle some data types and the most common data types using in MYSQL.
If you're interested in trying this new feature out or have any questions, let me know by e-mailing Neil@robelle.com.
Keep in mind that this products is currently just in our little wind tunnel, but it does extract data, list to the terminal and output to link/SD files. We are interested in getting feedback to look at the direction of how to handle some data types.
You may have read on HP3000-L about the Computer History Simulation Project and the Emulated HP3000 that you compile and build yourself.
Read the details at the top of the page about the SIMH Emulator.
You can find links on the right hand side of the main page.
The Code Generation forms on our website have been grouped together and three new forms have been added.
The Code Generation forms on our website have been grouped together and will be expanded over the coming months.
The HowDoI? section on our website now has some tutorials on Youtube.
The December 2015 Newsletter has been sent out and is available online.
The HP3000 Evolution book, edited by Bob Green is now available Online! Click on the book cover to download your copy!
What do you do when you try downloading a file to your HP 3000 and you always get a single line file?
Read some suggested tips about One Line files.
I'm looking for people to test the code generation for for input from Oracle Form Output. This form will take in the output from a form command after the Open / Select commands have an active Oracle table.
You can try this new form out at Oracle Form to Code. Any feedback can be addressed to neil at robelle.com.
Recently I was asked how to find a line and add a line before the line and how to add a line after. This is always fairly easy using host based commands, but since this customer did not have the host-based version of Qedit, but rather the Server only version and Qedit for Windows. Therefore my other option was to Add Lines Before and After a Line using Qedit for Windows Scripting Language.
You can refer to the Qedit For Windows Scripting Language manual for details.
A number of customers have been requesting where to download Suprtool from for Amisys 6.7. The summary of what changes have been made to Suprtool under What's New in Suprtool Section.
You can click on the link "Request a Download" at the end of the list of enhancements etc. You can also go directly to the form to Request a Download and please note that at the end of the form you need to scroll down and enter the captcha information in the box provided at the bottom of the page.
A second form has been added to help generate Suprtool code. The purpose of this form is to generate code where it would take in a CSV file make it fixed length and split the various fields into their intended native type. A form of a dataset or SD file can be used to generate the code.
You enter a start position and paste in the form of the dataset you want define and extract commands for and you are taken to a page with then generated code on it.
A new form has been added to help generate Suprtool code. The purpose of this form was to help a customer with some code generation where files would have some fields at the beginning and then an entire dataset in the file. So the dataset would start at a position that was not the first position and was not in a self-describing file.
So the code generator form will take in a form from a dataset and a start position and generate all the coded defines and extracts.
More refinements will be done but at this time this is just a test project.
Oracle 12 has some changes in it that doesn't allow for older versions of Suprtool to connect to databases using the Oracle 12 client. Suprtool 5.7 Build 6 and higher now properly connects to Oracle databases using the Oracle 12 client.
This impacts Itanium and Open versions of Suprtool.
In 2014, Robelle support was asked for a method to Obfiscate or make unreadable some test data. We came up with a method and documented it in this HowDoI article.
Taking this article and the need for many of our customers needing to do this, we enhanced Suprtool to have a function that would translate characters in such a way as to make such fields as the Company Name, First/Last name of people etc to be unreadable in a quick and easy manner. This is intended for when you make copies of test data and want to make some of these fields unreadable.
Suprtool 5.7 is available as the production release, you can read about the various enhancements and bug fixes in the various change notices. | 2019-04-21T16:07:06Z | http://robelle.com/ |
People said they wanted something different from hallways, so here’s a bed, in the clouds, that you can sleep on. A good healthy amount of glow added to make it more dreamlike or the bed more inviting. And the top covers and pillows made of some ultra soft material inside and out with SSS properties. Painted look added because I thought it would be appropriate for this scene.
Hmm, the clouds/smoke look verynice(kudos), but eh whole image looks quite low wuality(like compression-wise).
Im not sure if its due to glow or some other postprocess effect, just stateing it.
The bed looks pretty good, but the clouds are definitely the strong point.
No rating, but nice clouds.
It’s the painted effect you’re talking about that makes it appear to you as low quality. The painted effect was intentional, I sharpened the edges in PSP 7 then applied it to give it more of a slightly painted look.
Yeah, maybe you should try loosing that effect - it looks less ‘painted’ and more ‘badly compressed/ low quality’.
Looks good! I love how flat the clouds look. Kinda deco-ish, I guess. Stars are beautiful as well.
The glow is cool, but I think you could have done it a little better and differently.
I like this scene! If you’re interested, clean it up a bit and really wow everyone.
Refreshlinglt different from you CD. I really like the mood you’ve achieved here. The headboad texture of the bed looks unfitting for this, but that’s my biggest crit. The second is, that I’m not too happy with the paint effect.
But, I’ll give you generous 4 star from this, as I genuinely like this.
Glad that you like it, I personally thought a slight paint effect would be appropriate for this piece so I gave it a paint effect. I thought “hey, a paint effect would look nice on this”. So I carefully tweaked the effect so it’s noticable, but not going overboard.
Keep in mind I like the effect myself.
The top two clouds look like they could do with a bit more work to fluff them out a bit, the rest is OK apart from the paint effect. The idea of the effect isn’t so bad, its that you can tell the effect was applied by a computer. I’m sure if you used a more advanced painting program and a subtler method of gaining a painted effect it would look good.
By traditional painting method, i dont think anyone would set out to dcreate a picture with clouds in it and use that sort of textured brush stroke or whatever they would use to make it with.
Its still quite nice, thumbnail is beautiful.
i’ll go out on a limb and say i don’t mind the paint effect in this particular case, although in general i hate the overuse of photoshop filters, so i understand where the critiques are coming from. overall i quite enjoy the feel of the image, and its a good application of the clouds method you’ve been developing, CD.
i’m torn about the two clouds above the bed, though. on the one hand, their flatness sort of adds to the “stagey” feel of the piece (which is stylistic and i’m not opposed to that per se), but i still keep thinking it’d look that much better if they had more shading and weren’t so oval.
i’ll go out on a limb and say i don’t mind the paint effect in this particular case, although in general i hate the overuse of photoshop filters.
In my case paint shop pro filters, I don’t have photoshop.
I tried my best to avoid overdoing the paint effect. I was trying to find the line to see when it looks good and when it’s overused.
The clouds are truly fantastic.
4* from me. I think this looks pretty good. MUCH better then most of what I have seen from you! Keep on working with this look.
I don’t particularly like the painted look, it’s ok, but it would be nice if you could post a version without the paint effect. I hope you kept a backup copy of the render.
In a way, I like the harsh stairs. Kinda a “from the real world” to the “good world”.
Different perceptions, different interpretations I guess.
goodguy: Most of the work done by active members get rated, though sometimes a person’s work isn’t rated.
I think the bed should hjave a more surreal look. It looks too much like it was teleported from a hotel.
Great feel and quality overall though.
You need to look to your proportions. The top step is at the level of the bottom of the mattress. This is not a height at which one would stand before getting into the bed. The pillows look to be normal width and thickness, but very narrow. The bed’s length appears to be over twice it’s width, unusual dimensions for a double, king or queen size bed, which it appears to be, given the pillows.
goodguy20k, absolutely nothing inside any of CD’s threads is ever like it is anywhere else in the forum. The fact that he consistently gets ratings is one of them.
Even his most mediocre work gets rated either five or one, and then it’s counter-rated by the people who hate him and pity/love/I-have-no-frickin’-clue-what him, respectively, to encourage him to be a special shining star, or some such, or to tell him that they wish he’d stop making pictures(not respectively, obviously).
I don’t know why they insist on expressing these desires as star ratings, they just do. It’s a completely pointless cheapening of the entire system, so far as I can see, but apparently it’s wrapped into the bA.org psyche like a zombie’s death-grip, and there’s nothing anyone’s ever been able to do about it.
I like the effect. Four stars.
I like that alot, only thing I would do is remove those two clouds up there. | 2019-04-25T09:49:04Z | https://blenderartists.org/t/bed-in-the-clouds/399161 |
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The Oxford Consortium for Human Rights conducts workshop seminars for students and faculty in collaboration with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). The Oxford Consortium currently hosts annual workshops for students and faculty in Oxford (spring and summer) and New York (fall), with additional workshops in development in other locations and with different areas of focus in human rights. Our workshops are student focused, but with a faculty component involving collaborative research (learn more about our workshops here).
The Consortium began in 2012, with generous financial support from Steve Raymund, David Stern, and Laura and Bob Sillerman, and the administrative support of Dean David Frank of the University of Oregon Clark Honors College and Caroline Massey of Merton College, Oxford. It is co-chaired by Cheyney Ryan and Hugo Slim, both Senior Fellows of ELAC. Dr. Ryan is also Director of Human Rights Programs for ELAC, Dr. Slim is Head of Policy for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. The executive director is Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox of Quinnipiac University. The Consortium's work is enriched by the ongoing participation of our affiliated faculty members, as well as guest presenters who have included human rights practitioners, UN representatives, non-governmental organization leaders, and Oxford University scholars.
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The state assembly witnessed heated exchanges in April 2012 when Independent legislator Rakesh Pathania threatened to take up the gun to fight the mining mafia that is active in Nurpur area of the state.He alleged that erstwhile state industries minister Kishan Kapoor was protecting illegal mining."The government is losing more than Rs.200 crore per annum because of illegal mining. Where are you (minister) sleeping and where is your mining staff," Pathania said.Official sources told IANS that the more than 84-year-old railway bridge on the Chakki river was washed away due to flash floods in 2011 due to illegal mining.The Northern Railways had informed the Himachal Pradesh High Court that the bridge collapsed due to unscientific mining in the Chakki stream in Pathankot and Kangra districts.The bridge was constructed by the British in 1928 when the Sanan hydel project in Jogindernagar (hill station) was set up. It was the only bridge connecting Pathankot and the Kangra valley. | 2019-04-22T00:46:25Z | http://www.5dariyanews.com/news/99524-Illegal-mining-common-on-Himachal-Punjab-border-Kaul-Singh |
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Senior Community Constable Dean Walker was last year named the South Australian Local Hero in the prestigious Australian of the Year Awards – with the national winners to be announced this coming Saturday night.
At a Moving Ceremony in the Convention room in the Western Stands of the SACA, Adelaide Oval, on the evening of Tuesday 5th November 2013 Dean Walker was awarded the SA ‘Local Hero’ in the Australian of the Year Awards.
Recognised for his efforts to improve relations between police and Aboriginal communities in the state’s far north he has been a lynchpin in Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta for the last six years – continually going beyond the call of duty to make a difference in the community.
“As with all community constables I see myself as a role model for the Aboriginal community,” he told SA Police’s Blueprint magazine after the receiving the SA award.
Friends and family were in attendance for the Awards including Dad Robin Walker, wife Janice Bailes, as well as Joanne O’Toole, Julia Chamberlain, Patrick and Priscilla Larkins and George Laslett. Sisters Hayley and Chloe Nunn came down from Oodnadatta for the awards and it was great to the see the bush scoop the awards.
Across SA local people had been nominated for local hero; Dean got in the top four finalist and then won the award..
In Deano’s acceptance speech he spoke of the uniqueness of Coober Pedy and working in the SA Police. Deano was a little speechless to start with, the whole room giggles as Deano announced it was his first time at Adelaide oval, which he was quiet excited about.
Deano & Janice will now travel to Canberra in January for the National section of the awards.
Best of luck in the national awards Senior Community Constable Walker!
The announcement of the Australians of the Year for 2014 will be made outside Parliament House in Canberra on Australia Day eve (25 January) from 6 pm and will be broadcast live on ABC1. | 2019-04-21T20:23:56Z | https://cooberpedytimes.com/2014/01/24/good-luck-senior-community-constable-walker/ |
I make the coffee and listen to the idle talk that floats above the din of the dishwasher, and the register, and the bell above the door.
I know I'm not invited.
"Would you like a large or a small?," I ask.
They sip their coffee and plan their day, and what they will say to their daughter, and "Do you want to go?," and "Why don't we do this more often?".
Anything is possible at this moment and the world is so simple. Just a cup of coffee in this cafe.
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They throw it all into the rubbish basket. The cover swings closed with a bang.
The bell above the door jingles softly on their way out and the door closes behind them.
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Glenn Kerkhof, Chiltern CEO, stated during the announcement, I am proud of Katie Huffine, clearly one of Chiltern's outstanding Project Managers. Katie earned this recognition through her achievement of the successful early enrollment of patients in a pivotal clinical research study.
Katie Huffine, BSN, MSN, is a veteran in healthcare. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Tennessee State University, USA and a Master's Degree in Nursing from the University of Tennessee, USA. Katie has 37 years of nursing experience and 17 of those years in management roles.
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There are few artists of the Hip Hop eras Golden Years of graffiti who have excelled into the greater realms of fine art, commercial art and academia in the manner Carlos Mare aka Mare139 has over the past three decades. Infamously captured in the seminal documentary Style Wars directed by the late Tony Silver and produced by famed documentary photographer Henry Chalfant, the film captures a burgeoning hip-hop culture with the focus on the graffiti and b-boy dance scene in New York City circa 1983.
It was this documentary that drew the world's attention to the plight of NYCs inner city youth and their relentlessly competitive and combative culture they called writing or graffiti. This culture arrested the mind of a young 10-year-old in the South Bronx who lived upon the derelict and unforgiving landscape of burned out and abandoned buildings. On the means streets and below the subterranean subway system Mare found refuge with fellow artists in search of infamy and adventure away from and equally cruel life of poverty at home. Art was his only option, but not any art, Wild Style or Style Writing a highly personalized and abstracted form of typographically illustrating ones chosen name. After years of painting alongside many of his generation's greatest artists, Kel1st, Dondi White, Futura, Crash, Case2 and many others the rise of gallery and media attention during the early 1980s offered him and others the chance to surface with their art within a more formalized setting.
Not content with the direction of popularized graffiti on canvas he began thinking more broadly about the articulation of the culture both in aesthetic and theory, something he was learning through his association with Mr. Chalfant, who was also a sculptor and knowledgeable of the greater history of art. It was through this exchange that Mare was able to consider where in the arc of history he and his genre would or could lay. These were the earliest inclinations toward a modern approach to not just making but discussing this misunderstood art form. As Mare states, it was a matter of intellectual self-defense to formulate the informed words and weapons for debate, something he shared with his friend Iconclast Panzerist and Gothic Futurist Rammellzee (RIP), while on different trajectories both knew that arming both language and art was vital in today's aggressive world in particular for those who lived in its shadows. While Mare aligned himself with western theory, closely associating and investigating early 20th-century modernisms movements Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism to his work, others outside the Gothic Futurists aligned themselves with the more agreeable Pop Art aesthetic. Acknowledging that both play an important part of todays assimilation into the mainstream.
We discuss a bit of the past and present but more importantly the future, which he has greater optimism for just before he departs for Sole DXB Dubai.
Sole DXB - Lets start where you are and have been currently, making greater inroads into Arabic countries with your works and teachings. Why here and not Europe?
Carlos Mare - Thank you for considering this question off the top. Over the past 6 years, I have had the opportunity to visit Islamic countries both as an artist and US State Department Cultural Ambassador; this type of access affords me to deep dive into a culture I’ve long admired from afar. At first, my attraction was with the obvious Islamic design and Calligraphy, which I’ve long said, was so built into our creative practice. Secondly, the historical significance of these countries I've visited informed how I viewed our western relationship to the Middle East. The cultural exchange has enlightened me spiritually and creatively; this speaks to the power of the artistic passport. If one were to ask if I could have imagined my art or Hip Hop would bridge me to the world in this manner I would have doubted it but now I truly understand it beyond the practice of art and in the form of sort diplomacy the type that isn't just political but socially essential.
Europe in many ways has modeled itself after America and vice versa, one could debate the value and results of this but as an artist I see that after early modernism Europe brought nothing back to the table culturally for a very long time, Hip Hop filled that gap, a new youthful generation embraced our culture and reimagined it for themselves. While I was at the vanguard of Graffiti Modernism in the States, Europe being the birthplace of early modernism has really exploded with great diversity in visual art to the point of market over-saturation with little to no cultural context. We can agree that market forces too often dictate relevancy for today's art particularly in well-established countries like the EU and US, whereas the Middle East is reimagining itself in a manner that feels forward thinking and ambitious not predicated on European history.
Sole DXB - What countries have you visited and what impact have they had?
Carlos Mare - I’ve been to Istanbul several times, Morocco, which I fell most, inspired by, Sharjah where I recently exhibited and most recently Saudi Arabia. Istanbul was a fascinating trip because my first visit was strictly academic and part of an effort with Duke University, the US and Turkish State Departments to explore the use of art as a means of social engagement, this was before the Syrian crisis and Taksim Square. My role as an artist was to present a compelling overview of the impact of artistic and social engagement through art and how transformative Hip Hop culture has been not just to the West but to the rest of the world. While culture alone cannot solve these issues engagement in today language is vital to the younger generation. Hip Hop in many ways speaks to the aspirations of youth so it is no surprise that it is used for soft diplomacy. While there I took in Haiga Sohia and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque, which deeply moved me spiritually and artistically. It was upon my next visit to Istanbul for an exhibition at the Pera Museum titled Language of the Walls where I really expressed the impact of Islamic design in my sculptures. Following that up with exhibitions in Marrakech with David Bloch gallery with my mates Agents of Change we did a deep dive culturally and artistically, which brought me closer to Islamic culture personally and creatively. I spent December 2015 in Marrakech collaborating with Vincent Zepha Hafez for a show at David Bloch gallery where I honed in on a new aesthetic for my work that was informed by Islamic culture. This carried over to the more recent exhibition for the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennale in which I continued exploring the gestures between graffiti and calligraphy in 3D space.
My recent trip to Saudi Arabia was through Words Beats and Life a nonprofit Hip Hop organization and the US State Department. We traveled with a group representing all 4 elements of Hip Hop and toured Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran having workshops and taking a trip to Mecca for Umrah, which was transformative. This I find is the greater purpose of how my art has served me, to travel and have an impact on others as well to receive vital life experiences that best inform my spirit.
Sole DXB - Shifting gears, Sole DXB in Dubai highlights Urban Culture in all its manifestations from Lifestyle to Fashion, how do you view the current state of global Hip Hop culture?
Carlos Mare - I feel SOLE DBX represents the maturity, tastes, and aspirations of our genre. It is both cultural and material. What people forget is that early Hip Hop was so aspirational toward materialism and so interconnected with music, art, and fashion. Our inability as kids to afford big brands gave rise to a highly personalized and ingenious way of fashioning ourselves with what was available to us. We were so inclined to paint our clothes, mix and match from all racks and most importantly put our feet at the center of it all. Sneakers play a big part in this in that we had to represent with the latest and cleanest sneakers on the market. Converse, Pro Keds, Puma and Addidas were at the forefront of footwear fashion. We took great pride and risk attaining new kicks for the truth be told one could get robbed and killed for a pair of Clyde Suede pumas as they would in later years for Jordan’s. Our feet held a sacred status symbol, for us B-boys it was paramount to be freshly dipped in clean sneakers with a proper shoe lacing that in itself was an art form, consider the idea of fat laces or woven two-tone laces, it is unheard of today. This emphasis on the footwear really drove the culture and market as later seen by Run DMC and Addidas and subsequent brand endorsements and collaborations.
As a young student, I studied fashion design as a legit career with the interest of applying graffiti to fashion but in haute couture, long before anyone. Lisa Leone who recently exhibited with Sole DXB was my girlfriend and muse at the time so I would make her clothes with this sensibility. What I didn't foresee was that I was laying the groundwork for many important things namely graffiti sculpture. It wasn't until the late mid-80s early 90s that fashion became such an integral part of the culture with the rise of Dapper Dan, Shirt King Phade and others that were attracted to status symbols that were beyond their reach. This ultimately gave rise to the street brand, which was also inspired by Stussy, and smaller brands on the West Coast. The inclusion of street wear into trade shows changed the game where as before big production brands held court now smaller nimble and creative brands assembled to satisfy their niche market.
Today the culture represented at Sole DXB is geared more toward a more mobile, affluent and informed collector base. This is a powerful statement about the aforementioned history as to how we, as a have a culture, transcended demographics, and economics to affect a billion dollar plus marketplace. We have become stakeholders in this regard.
While in some respect, there has been a market oversaturation of anything cultural, what the urban market does better than any is re-imagine itself for its time. As it matures and prospers it still has to contend with the greater imagination of the poor and ingenious who aspire toward the same status. It is within these less fortunate communities where I see the most inventiveness, honesty and ideas of the future. Those not unlike myself who worked with very little and helped shape what we now know as Hip Hop Culture.
Sole DXB - You will be presenting Style Wars and Moderating a panel with Stretch Armstrong and DJ Clark Kent, what direction will those conversations take you?
Carlos Mare - As for Style Wars I'm well rehearsed in that narrative, Henry and I go way back and are close friends so it will be a natural conversation. I often focus not so much on the past but how far we have come and not only what has transpired but what I see ahead. Hip Hop as a whole in is better than its ever been, some may dispute it and often times it is with a focus on today's Rap music, this is an area where I will press the DJs for their insight. While very little Rap music satisfies me in terms of lyrical content I can connect to I do feel it's now a Producers genre with some really fascinating music being explored.
Sole DXB - Are you exhibiting in Dubai?
Carlos Mare - No. Not yet laying the groundwork for both exhibitions and Academic outreach.
Sole DXB - I want to touch on the commercial work; your career is lined with many firsts and unique accomplishments namely the Annual BET Award? Have you ever met any of the recipients? Does commercial work lessen your value in the art market?
Carlos Mare - The BET Award is by far the highest profile project I’ve done or anyone in our genre. Every year close to 10 million people see my work given to musicians like JayZ, Beyonce, Lebron James, Denzel Washington, Prince, Kanye and many others. This project itself is an exemplary study of both design and culture. I am in the works of developing a book around it which I feel will be very inspiring to people. I have met several of the artists over the years, by far the most gracious were Outkast when the won the very first one and I met them off stage, the magic of seeing my work in the hands of young men who worked so hard for that moment was priceless. In terms of connecting the dots most don’t know who I am or how valued I am in their culture, this is a result of the fray in our diaspora and why a book is so essential in telling our story. One thing that is for certain, the results of all of my efforts and those of my peers was a blueprint for what you see today. For better or worst I advocated for full on integration and interruption of all creative fields. Particularly in the technology field where since the early 90s my brother Kel 1st and I developed the first Hip Hop websites and multimedia design platforms. We also educated and mentored many around us to embrace this oncoming revolution. I ultimately won the highest accolade in the field, The Webby award for developing a cutting edge website for Style Wars. I’ve always maintained a foot in commercial art so long as it allowed me as a brand to express my interpretation of the product or task. Among the many notable projects I worked with NIKE and Brand Jordan in Brazil to design their visual footprint for a project called Elementos. I was tasked to create unique imagery relating to Basketball, B-boying, Graffiti, Hip Hop etc., and the opportunity to create these works that would be physical spaces was fantastic. I’ve also worked with NIKE and Footlocker on in-store installation, which echoed, back to the history of legendary NYC basketball culture.
Sole DXB - The future holds what?
Carlos Mare - The future is both encouraging and uncertain, I have often the discussed the drift of cultural identity, artistic homogeny and the rise of the culture class, these things greatly affect our future and legacy and sometimes keep me up at night. Despite this I think I'm ready to disrupt the game again, first, it was fashion then metal graffiti sculpture, technology, academia now I ready to disrupt "Street Art", stay tuned for that! As for my sculpture works I am still exploring Islamic inspired works in metal and I'm in the midst of collaborating with Michael Walsh another fellow sculptor who like myself has deep concerns with history and with contemporary sculpture. We are working as peers through our works and while we differ in style we are both cut from the fabric of Hip-Hop/Graffiti and modern art. I am also continuing to lecture and focusing on using my work as a passport toward a better understanding of the community I serve. I believe education is our next frontier, that creating a cultural legacy, teaching practice and curriculums will help create richer people who are connected by all this genre has to offer. I have also spent the past 2 years a Curatorial Director of Hi-Arts Gallery in NYC where I was able to present terrific exhibitions I found relevant to the community it serves. In the future, I wish to curate more exhibitions along the lines of cultural relevancy for our genre. Given there is so much out great art out there most can not decipher what is most important for our time and this is where a discerning eye and critical mind plays a big role, there are too many outsiders asserting themselves in a genre they know very little about but through the sway of influence they become the culture class which projects what they feel is popular or agreeable shall I say. There are no greater stakeholders than those who created the culture, bled for it and charted its course to where we are today. | 2019-04-25T03:45:44Z | http://www.soledxb.com/allarticles/2016/11/8/sole-interview-carlos-mare |
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In the great work of creation, the crown of God's creation was mankind, male and female, made in the spiritual image of Jehovah God (Gen. 1:26-28). In this relationship, God determined that the man should have the position of head or rule over the woman (Gen. 3:16; I Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:23). This does not mean that the man is to be some sort of iron-fisted dictator or tyrant, for his rule is likened to the rule of Christ over his church. "You wives must submit to your husband's leadership in the same way you submit to the Lord. For a husband is in charge of his wife in the same way Christ is in charge of His body the church. (He gave His very life to take care of it and be its Savior!) So you wives must willingly obey your husbands in everything, just as the church obeys Christ" (Eph. 5:22-24, Living N. T.).
In view of these words, I cannot imagine Christ perpetrating any unkindness or meanness in asserting his rule over the church. Those matters in which Christ affirm his authority are matters that are for the well-being of the church, and not just a whim to prove his supremacy. I have known of husbands who demanded certain things of their wives just to prove to the wife she was in subjection: e.g., "Jump when I say frog." Any husband who so treats his wife has a problem: (a) He is woefully insecure in his own estimation, and resorts to bullying to assert self, (b) he cannot claim to exercise authority for the good of the wife, and thus (c) approaches blasphemy when he tries to liken his behavior to that of Christ and the church. Think about it, husbands.
"It is not best that there should be the open exercise of authority in a family. When commands begin in the relation of husband and wife, happiness flies; and the moment a husband is disposed to command his wife, or is under a necessity of doing it, that moment he may bid adieu to domestic peace and joy . . . He, too, should consult her wishes; and when he understands what they are, he should regard what she prefers as the very thing which he would command. The known wish and preference of a wife, unless there be something wrong with it, should be allowed to influence his mind, and be that which he directs in the family" (Barnes On The New Testament, Eph. 5).
To the wife is also given authority to rule and guide. The words "subdue" and "have dominion over" the earth in Gen. 1:28 both apply to the generic word "man" in v. 27. I Tim. 5:14 spells out the woman's responsibility: "I desire therefore that the younger widows many, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling . . ." Meyer's Commentary states: "Denotes properly the work of the husband. Here it is used of the wife, who necessarily has her share in ruling the household." "To be master of the household; to occupy one's self in management of the household" (Bagster's Lexicon). Thayer says of this: "To be master (or head) of a house; to rule a household, manage family affairs." "So I think it is better for these younger widows to marry again and have children, and take care of their own homes . . ." (Living N. T.). From this, we note that the wife has some authority, but it is subordinate to the husband's. Having established the husband as head, what are his responsibilities to those in his household?
The husband's responsibilities to his wife are at least fourfold. First, he is to love her.
"Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone you will be loyal to (her) no matter what the cost. You will always believe in (her), always expect the best of (her), and always stand your ground in defending (her)" (I Cor. 13:4-7, Living N. T.).
He is to love her as himself, for Paul declared: "Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church ..." (Eph. 5:28-29). Does this not include what we call the "Golden Rule?" How many of us husbands treat our wives as we would like to be treated? Honestly, now? Have you ever seen a husband who could afford nice clothes for himself, but never seemed to have enough money to provide the same for his wife?
But Paul does not complete the comparison with those words. He also declared that husbands are to love their wives "even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it ..." (Eph. 5:25).
"There is no danger that a husband will love a wife too much, provided his love be subordinate to the love of God. The command is, to love her as Christ loved the church. What love has ever been like that? How can a husband exceed it? What did Christ endure to redeem the church? So should a husband be willing to deny himself to promote the happiness of his wife; to watch by her in sickness, and if need be, to peril health and life to promote her welfare. Doing this, he will not go beyond what Christ did for the church. He should remember that she has a special claim of justice on him. For him she has left her father's home forsaken the friends of her youth, endowed her name in his, confided her honour, her character, and her happiness, to his virtue; and the least that he can do for her is to love her, and strive to make her happy. This was what she asked when she consented to become his; and a husband's love is what she still asks to sustain and cheer her in the trials of life. If she has not this, whither shall site go for comfort?" (Barnes On The New Testament).
Would not this include words of encouragement and praise (Prov. 31:28-29), as well as faithfulness to her, in that he does not enjoy "running her down" before others. But rather he has respect for her, for if he shows no respect, he belittles himself by showing either what a poor choice in mates he made, or that he is no longer a gentleman.
In the second place, the husband is to "leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife .....(Eph. 5:31). The man expects his wife to be his, and his alone, therefore he should expect to render her the same devotion.
Again, the man is to render to his wife her "due" and defraud her not (I Cor. 7:3, 5). This, of course, speaks of the sexual relations between husband and wife. The man is not to use his wife merely as an object for his sexual gratification, but in the marital relations is to use tenderness and consideration, and take care to see that this sacred part of marriage means as much to her as it does to him. This is an important factor that so many husbands overlook or fail to consider. If the husband needs the help of a doctor or counselor, let him not be ashamed to do what he can to provide consideration for his wife in this matter. I have seen more than one marriage break up, wholly or in part because the husband did not take any pains to give satisfaction to his wife's God-given needs. And how many others simply endure in silence and frustration the thoughtlessness of a husband who could give a new dimension to their relationship, and bring greater happiness even to himself, if he really loved his wife.
A fourth consideration is mentioned by Peter: "Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life . . ." (I Peter 3:7). The wife is not a slave, but a partner in marriage — a partner with less physical strength. In order for a husband to fulfill this command, he may find it necessary on occasion to help her. So many times a husband will expect his wife to be preparing food and house for guests constantly, and tend to the children, and yet never offer to help. He may even expect her to help with the income, in addition. Husbands, do you ever lend a hand in carrying babies or watching after the children when the family goes out together? Do you ever offer to babysit while your wife goes shopping or to some sort of woman's gathering? They are your children as well as hers, and it might do you good to get to know them better!! The results of a failure to have proper regard for the wife are not encouraging, for Peter adds to the above quotation: ". . . to the end that your prayers be not hindered." Consider seriously the consequences of a failure to "dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman..."
Responsibilities to his children are summed up by Paul's statement in Eph. 6:4: "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord." Considering the negative command, we note there are several ways in which a father may provoke his children. First, he may make unfavorable comparisons between or among children. Great care should be exercised here, for each child is an individual, with different abilities and thoughts. Another danger is constant negativism, the "don't," "can't" psychosis. Our children are what we make them, and the continual downgrading of a child rather than specific acts will impair the child's own self-image. When a parent often says "You are dumb . . . stupid . . . bad," etc., the child will come to think this, and the wise man tells us, "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he" (Prov. 23:7). More than one child has been told so often that he or she is bad and the "black sheep" of the family that they come to believe it, and then set out to prove it so none will be "disappointed." You can become more fully aware of this when you have experience of talking with a sobbing young girl, an unwed-mother-to-be, who has fulfilled the expectations of her autocratic father who has drilled into her head from childhood that she is bad.
Many times we parents also commit errors in discipline. We can do this by failing to give discipline (Prov. 13:24; 19:18), or by leaving it all up to the wife. We can also be too severe, giving punishment all out of proportion to the seriousness of the infraction. Good judgment must be exercised in giving discipline. Or, contrariwise, we may give inadequate punishment, and thus not impress upon the minds of our children the full import of what they may have done. There is also deceptive discipline — the giving of idle threats. Do you promise punishment with no intention of giving it? "You do that one more time, and I'll beat the daylights out of you!" can become an empty threat and can affect a child's whole outlook on discipline when it is constantly mouthed, but seldom enforced. Then there is unfair punishment — punishing the innocent with the guilty, or arbitrarily inflicting a punishment just because we happen to feel "out of sorts" and take it out on the children. There is also the possibility of an overly strict policy, i.e., expecting the child to be an adult and thus expecting too much. You may think it would take the wisdom of a Solomon to do what is right in discipling children, and certainly the welfare of the family, and the eternal welfare of the child demands our thoughtful consideration.
He sees you cheat and hears you lie.
But youth will learn from the way you live.
We also see the great problems that accompany the showing of favoritism when we look into the family of Isaac and Rachel, with their sons Jacob and Esau. Don't let this happen in your family. Each child is deserving of your love and attention as much as the next.
Positively, Paul charged, "Nuture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord." "Nuture" is "to nourish up to maturity, bring up" (Thayer). Meyer comments on the "chastening" thusly: "In the N. T. . . . mean(s) . . . education, . . discipline, instruction by correction or chastening." He further says of admonition: "training by word, and in actual use, mostly, though not necessarily, by word of reproof, remonstrance or blame." This would include training in the whole development of the child — spiritual, social, physical and mental, after the example of the growth and development of Christ when he was a child (Luke 2:52). Please notice that it is the father who is addressed here, indicating that the father is certainly to have a definite part in the training of the child, rather than leaving it all up to the wife. There is no more justification in leaving the "nurturing" of the children to the wife and children than in leaving the "church-going" to the wife and children.
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1. Produce a business plan outlining all details and aspects of your company including start-up and operational expenses, target client base and relevant marketing and advertising program. You could consult a small business coach for advice on how to position and start your business. Have a look around your area for the best business coach suited for your business.
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With all the discordant news that bombards us daily, reading about the overwhelming community response to the recent derailment of the California Zephyr in Nebraska, how wonderful to realize there is still a heart in America.
I'm from the Boston area and was a passenger on the train along with my wife and 2 year old daughter. The rapid and effective response coupled with hospitality unlike anything that I've felt before drove me to write a letter to President Obama with the Governor of NE cc'd. I've never written a letter to a public official before.
"I’m now on a bus to Lincoln, NE, gazing out into the cornfields that I have usually and unwittingly labeled as boring and uneventful. I have a new and profound appreciation for these fields and find myself searching for the homes and barns scattered across the landscape as I now understand that the people inside are what make up America’s great heartland.
It’s interesting how powerful experiences such as these shape our lives. I was quite stressed yesterday morning not knowing how my daughter would cope with such an experience, how my family and I would get to Chicago or where we would stay for the night; yet less than 12 hours later I’m grateful for the experience as me and my family have new friends, more reasons to be thankful and many more memories to cherish than to forget as a result of the experience.
And most importantly, we have an understanding of what the “heartland” is all about thanks to the people of Dundy County, Nebraska and surrounding areas whom came together, exemplified what is good in this nation and touched our hearts in such a profound way. I’m proud to be an American today."
Your words have absolutely touched my heart. As I read them to myself I began to cry, not in sadness, but in pride of our wonderful town of Benkelman. I was at the High School volunteering and I had the privileged to meet many of the passengers and train staff.
Just as you have described what an impact we made on you, please know that each of you have eternally made an impact on all of us. To the anonymous writer, Thank You!
I am one of the responders who was on scene, and later at the high school in the command center. We live in a area where 90% of our calls, are taking one of our cherished elderly citizens from the nursing home to the hospital. We just never have things of this magnitude happen here.
Well that is until yesterday. When the call came in my stress level jumped. As I got to the ambulance barn I told myself that I had to calm down or I would be no good to anyone. In route I talked with my wife trying to calm her fears. (She is a fellow EMT) that I am proud to call my wife. Talking with her trying to calm her was just as effective on me as her. I was scared, not so much by the wreck itself as the fear there was going to be people that I could not help.
When we arrived on scene and found that it was not as bad as I had prepared for, it was just like any other call, find people in need and get them stable and to the hospital. As we got to the school and talking with passengers, I can truly tell you my life has been touched. Everyone involved in some way touched a life that day.
As responders we touched a life in some way and from passengers and crew my life was touched 192 times! I am proud to be a part of this experience, and if I never make another run all the classes and sleepless nights will have been worth every second. Thank you Anonymous for recognizing our actions, but also thank you and the others for touching our lives as well.
I was one of the first emergency responders on scene, and I can honestly say, initially the sight of over a hundred passengers and potential victims were overwhelming. The Amtrak crew should be highly commended as well! Their first thoughts were of the passengers, many of them ignoring their own injuries till later.
There was a fire fighter from California, a passenger, by the name of Joe, who offered assistance and was a great help...one of many unsung heroes that day...I wish I had got more information from him....but that wasn't a consideration at the time.
At one point, later in the morning, I looked up the road, and was shocked to see emergency vehicles lined up for a mile....coming from McCook, Indianola, Imperial, Wauneta, Stratton, Culbertson, Palisade, Cheyenne County, Ks, Wray, Co., and I'm sure others that I can't name now.
The assistance and willingness to help, and just compassion is why I moved here years ago. My pride in our little community of Dundy County has never been so strong. From the Benkelman EMS and Fire Dept., to all of our neighboring cities and the businesses that contributed to help care for the passengers.
Not one person complained; all were proud to have joined in. I am honored to be part of this community. Rick Starks, Crew Chief, Haigler Ambulance.
California Zephyr: Two Related Events?
Two seemingly unrelated news items crossed my desk concerning Amtrak.
The first event: At 1:45 a.m. Thursday, police dispatchers were notified that a stalled car was straddling the Union Pacific railroad tracks near Highway 93A, near West Wendover, Nevada right on the Nevada-Utah State line.
Dispatchers were attempting to inform railroad officials of the obstructed tracks when an eastbound Amtrak train hit the car and pushed it for about a quarter of a mile. The car was a total loss. The train had only minor damage.
After a delay of about two hours - while the car was removed from the tracks and police inspected the scene - the train was allowed to continue on its way eastward. No personnel or passengers in the train were reported injured.
Those in my audience with "whiskers" may recall that Wendover Air Force Base served as the training facility for B-29 air crews planning the atomic bomb attacks on Japan. At one time, more than 400 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents, worked to help secure the secret mission of the base in 1944 - 1945, code named "Silverplate."
In more recent times, Wendover was used in the shooting of "ConAir." See the hyperlink in previous paragraph.
Hours later, a second event caught my attention: "An Amtrak train carrying more than 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed today (Friday) after striking equipment on the tracks near Benkelman in southwest Nebraska. A small number of people were taken to hospitals."
Passenger Harvey Evans, 37, of Grand Island, Nebraska, said it appeared that the train struck a crane that was doing demolition on a nearby grain silo. The truck-mounted crane was obviously fouling the BNSF main line!
So what do these seemingly unrelated events have in common? Turns out they were inflicted upon the same train! Eastbound Amtrak Train #6, The California Zephyr, attempting to complete her journey from Emeryville California to Chicago Illinois!
"All of a sudden I hear brakes. (The) train's rolling, rocking, moving side to side," said Evans, who grabbed a chair to steady himself. "All of a sudden we stopped."
It's "been a long, rough trip," said Evans, in part because the train was running about eight hours behind schedule after hitting an abandoned car on the tracks Wednesday night near West Wendover, Nevada! "It's been one thing after another!"
And so, Amtrak's California Zephyr finds herself in the news again. In this incident, the train struck a crane that was razing an old grain elevator adjacent to the tracks in an unincorporated area west of Benkelman, Nebraska.
Two locomotives tipped on their sides and three of the California Zephyr's 10 passenger cars left the tracks about 8 a.m., near the state's borders with Kansas and Colorado.
As shown the vehicle base and crane machinery were separated by the impact, with the boom of the crane lying on the opposite side of the train! As we "go to press," there are no reported fatalities, with 20 passengers hospitalized.
And despite the fact they were stranded miles from anywhere, plenty of help was soon on hand as the surrounding communities responded.
Railroad Stuff: Amtrak 174, Model P42DC, "GE Genesis Series 1," 4,250 hp. Hotel Power: 1 - GTA33 alternator, 800 kW, 480 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz, microcomputer control. Serial Number: 53031.
A special "Thanks" to Bill Coe for granting "Oil-Electric" permission to use his photo of the Zephyr on her side. Bill is a professional photographer, and has an excellent web site, which I encourage you to view.
Also to Gary Rich of Aurora, Colorado, for permitting us to use a photo of the Doane silo being demolished. You can see the BNSF main in the photo. Gary has some interesting shots on his site, which I encourage you to take a look at.
So, the other day, I was talking with a buddy of mine. I asked him if had read about the Port of Seattle taking delivery next January of three "long reach" ship-to-shore cranes, for loading and unloading post-Panamax container ships.
His reaction: A blank stare.
My friend was totally unaware of the gargantuan Panama Canal Expansion Program that commenced back on September 3rd, 2007, and its impact on world shipping.
When the Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (ACP) - the Panama Canal Authority took control of the Canal from the United States on December 31st, 1999, there were growing concerns that the existing canal could reach capacity by the second decade of the 21st century.
Indeed, the existing locks prevent passage by vessels measuring more than 106 feet wide (beam.) But the economic reality of international trade have resulted in ships being built much wider.
But more pressing is the existing backup of vessels waiting to use the Canal! Two days waiting in the Roads are two days of overhead expenses, amounting to thousands of dollars per day, that shipping companies and customers can ill afford!
Panamanian President Torrijos and his Cabinet approved the expansion project in June 2006. The Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly approved it in July 2006, with 72 out of 78 deputies approving the expansion. The project was submitted to a national referendum, held in October 2006, approved by 78% of voters.
The Panamanian government officially launched the project on September 3, 2007, with a ceremony led by former President Jimmy Carter, whose Administration negotiated the Panama Canal Treaties.
Following an aggressive timeline, the 5.5B (USD) expansion is slated to open in 2014, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the original canal opening.
Construction of new locks at the Atlantic and Pacific gateways.
Excavation of new access channels and the widening of the existing channels.
Deepening of the navigation channels in the Gaillard Cut and Gatún Lake.
Raising Gatún Lake's maximum operating level.
Tugboats to power vessels through locks instead of electric locomotives.
Horizontal transverse gates instead of Miter Gates.
"Water saver" recycling system will save 7% of Gatún Lake resources.
Each vessel will transit with two tug boats, front for advancement, rear for braking, thus, eliminating the famous electric "mule" locomotives, along with their tracks and line handling personnel.
Horizontal transverse gates, rather than "traditional" Miter Gates. Miter Gates required a massive floating crane to lift and replace worn or damaged gates. Not only is a lane shut down to switch out gates, the process is time consuming and delicate, requiring divers to align the miters.
Beginning Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2000 hours through Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2200 hours, and beginning Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2000 hours through Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 2200 hours, the East lane at Gatun Locks will be out of service. These two 26-hour outages are necessary for the removal and reinstallation of Miter Gates, and other scheduled maintenance work.
Among the largest floating cranes in the world, "Titan" was one of three massive floating cranes ordered built by Adolph Hitler. One was claimed by the United States as war booty. Named the "Titan," it can lift 350 metric tons and at the time, was one of the strongest cranes in the world.
"Titan" entered service in Panama in 1999, after having served for 50 years in Long Beach, California. The crane can be floated into the locks and is used for the heavy lifting required to maintain the miter gates.
Of the other two floating cranes, the British got one, but lost it in a storm while towing it home across the English Channel. The Russians got the third, but no one seems to know what became of it.
"Water saver" recycling system. Rather than loose precious water on each lock cycle to the open sea, the displaced water is fed into ponds. Notice their action in the video.
While the scope of the Expansion Program is impressive in terms of material that needs to be removed, the most daunting and critical construction feature of the Canal Expansion is the so-called "Borinquen Dam."
The new Pacific Locks incorporate the combined lift now accomplished by the Miraflores Locks, and nearby Pedro Miguel Locks. About a mile separates the current locks, across Miraflores Lake.
Since the new traffic lane is 32 feet above Miraflores Locks and Lake, a series of Borinquen Dams, sheet steel cofferdams, are being constructed along "Borinquen Road." These structures will contain the pressure of water exerted by the third traffic lane, which travels 32 feet above the existing Pedro Miguel Lock and Miraflores Lake, by-passing both the San Miguel and Miraflores Locks!
A massive effort at the Atlantic end of the canal, with dredging and a new set of locks under construction.
The Panama Canal Authority has been kind enough to share some of the construction activity, for us "sidewalk superintendents," via web cam video. My favorites are the two Panorama View cameras, one at the Atlantic, the other at the Pacific, where you can view the new locks as they are being constructed 24/7.
The impact of the Panama Canal Expansion on the shipping world has been compared to the invention of the shipping container. On 26 April 1956, Malcolm McLean’s converted Second World War tanker, Ideal X, made its maiden journey from Port Newark to Houston. It had a reinforced deck carrying 58 38-foot metal container boxes as well as 15,000 tons of bulk petroleum. McLean's enterprise became known as Sea-Land Service, now Maersk-SeaLand.
Container ports compete on a number of levels, not the least of which is "containers per hour per porch." That is, how many containers can be lifted off the vessel and placed on the bomb-cart - skeleton trailer and returned to the vessel. 54 containers per hour is not uncommon!
Shipping container size was finally standardized for intermodal international transportation. Container ships are rated by the number of 20' shipping containers they are capable of carrying.
Virtually every port on the East and West Coasts of the United States and Canada, are scrambling to understand the impact of post Panamax expansion container ships. Some ports are undertaking massive dredging projects, others evaluating ship-to-shore cranes and terminal yards.
Currently, containers using the ship / rail connection to the east coast take approximately 20 days. The new generation of ships will simply transit the canal, taking approximately 25 days.
So as you can imagine, spreadsheet analysis are certainly being conducted. And yet to be determined, the impact of the New Canal on rail traffic. Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific in particular will be analyzing the effect of ships by-passing the West Coast all together.
For now, it seems to be a given that time sensitive cargoes will continue to use the sea / rail connection, whilst general cargoes will simply be transshipped through the new Canal. Not so certain is the effect to be felt by the Ports of Seattle/Tacoma, and Vancouver, B.C. And already, the general weakened economy has put the second phase of construction on an indefinite hold in Prince Rupert. On the "plus" side, Prince Rupert did install "long reach" ship-to-shore container cranes.
In July 2011, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) sent her 9,200-TEU container ship "Bruxelles" to five major east coast ports, to get a "feel" for channel depths and determine lane improvements that will be necessary to handle the post Panamax container ships. This ship is drawing 49 feet of water, and is 160' wide (beam) - like a five story building under water - in channels and alongside container piers!
Details of how selected ports are responding to the "Post Panamax Effect" and a primer on current US/Panamanian Relations are found in the Suggested Reading following this article.
Not only are US and Canadian Ports impacted, but also feeder lines to Central and South America. To ignore the possibility of a competitive response recall the fate of the Groupe Eurotunnel SA that went bankrupt as ferry operators improved their service and reduced their costs in response to the competitive threat of the English Channel "Chunnel."
The Canal Expansion has certainly heated up the competition of east coast ports. Here, for example, is how the Canal Expansion could affect the Port of Savannah Georgia.
Who the heck is Grover Norquist?
Have you noticed that in many news stories involving taxes, the name "Grover Norquist" keeps popping up? I did. And I got to wondering what was all this nonsense about the "Grover Norquist Pledge."
Here's what I found out.
Back in 1985, at President Ronald Reagan's request (that alone tells you this story isn't going to have an happy ending,) a tax advocacy group was formed "Americans for Tax Reform."
Apparently, it had not gone unnoticed that many politicians got into office by swearing on the bible of their dead mother, that if they got elected, they would not raise taxes.
Of course, the reality being, once they arrived on the shores of the Potomac, it rapidly became clear that if to implement a new plan, or improve an existing plan, chances were that taxes would have to be raised or created.
So Grover Norquist contrived the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" to force politicians to actually sign a pledge, that they would not raise taxes under any circumstances. Have you seen the pledge? Here it is.
I would think a politician would feel just a little embarrassed at signing this "pledge." How sophomoric. I found the Captain Midnight Decoder Ring pledge to be more "impressive." At least it stressed Honesty, Character, and to drink my Ovaltine!
While the premise may be admirable, any sensible person knows, that to sign such a document flies in the face of good old-fashioned common sense.
First of all, we all know that user fees, licenses, and taxes are the only mechanism to raise money to pay for services rendered, from your local constabulary, to the Federal Army, and everything in between.
Any politician, who signs a pledge not to raise taxes, inhibits their ability to adapt or respond to changing circumstances and conditions. Any elected official who signs such a pledge has no business holding public office. Because, they have pledged away the ability to administer to the needs of a responsive government.
Let's take as an example, funding the two money-sucking quagmires; Iraq and Afghanistan. Since many of our politicians have signed the "American's for Tax Payer Reform Pledge," they are in a quandary as to how to continue two undeclared wars, without raising taxes.
Had we taken a logical pathway into Iraq and Afghanistan, we would have had hearings and yadda yadda, and then closed with a discussion of how to FUND the military excursion. But we all know how it went down, and now 10 years - 10 years later, still pumping money into it with absolutely no end in sight.
First. If they have run out of money and cannot raise taxes to continue playing Rambo in some god forsaken litter box, then pack up the troops and bring them home. Obviously that isn't an option.
"Hey, Senior Citizen, you don't need that much to live on, giime some of your money."
"We don't need clean air, shut the EPA down."
"We are so far behind the eight ball in education, cut educational spending."
"Let private insurance companies run the meds - we need the money!"
Third choice. Apply common sense that dictates you have to "raise taxes" to pay for new or increased spending. What the heck is difficult to understand about that? But, for some reason beyond my comprehension, that "pledge" they signed for some anti-tax group, keeps them from doing what they know in their heart of heart is the correct thing to do, raise taxes. And make corporations pay taxes.
I've read all the gobbledy-gook on the Americans for Tax Reform web site, and I find nothing that states, "If you break this pledge, you will be _______________!" So how does one dude wield so much power?
There are no exceptions to the Pledge. Tax-and-spend politicians often use "emergencies" to justify increasing taxes. In the unfortunate event of a real crisis or natural disaster, legislators should cut spending in other areas instead of aggravating the situation. In the face of natural disasters, governors like Haley Barbour or Jeb Bush have demonstrated such fiscal leadership and have worked through the problems without raising taxes.
I am angry. I don't recall seeing the name "Grover Norquist" on any ballot, state or national that I have fulfilled. Have you?
And while he is certainly entitled to rant and rave about raising taxes - more power to him - he must do so in the same manner any of the rest of us do, through making our feelings known to our elected representatives, through letters, emails, phone calls and the ballot card.
But, he does not have the right to hijack my elected politicians, and hold them hostage to his beliefs. Not my beliefs - his beliefs. He does not have the right to get his own way, by disenfranchising me.
And if one of my elected officials believes he/she should sign the Grover Norquist Pledge, do so BEFORE I am asked for your vote! And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you have signed the pledge! Not get elected and THEN sign the pledge. That is abhorrent beyond belief.
If you have no problem with them taking the pledge, you are good to go!
On the other hand, if you do not want Grover Norquist representing you, use your vote at the ballot box, to rectify any discrepancies.
From what I've been told, in the moments following an accident, there is a momentary lull. The brain struggles to comprehend what has just occurred. Then the response begins. In the case of this train wreck, miles from nearest first responders, passengers relied on each other to get off the train and endeavor to render comfort and aid to the injured.
There was a fellow who jumped right in to help rescue victims and help the injured. While carrying a woman to an ambulance, he injured his leg. He never told anyone what he had done, and how his leg got injured. His brother asked him weeks later why he was limping.
Finally, he told his brother about the wreck. "You don't know how bad it was there. He'd never seen such disruption and injuries. And he said I never hope to see it again in my life."
The pain in his leg continued. Unable to work and laid off, he sought help Winnemucca. He was treated for a blood clot in his leg. But the pain continued, so he went to the VA hospital in Reno.
While undergoing treatment Wednesday, the blood clot ended up in his lungs and he died. His death leaves a wife and a lot of medical bills, but little else. He had no insurance.
His brother Al Breen says, they aren't asking for help. But they do want something his brother never sought, for others to know what he did that day.
You see, Bob Breen was also an employee of John Davis Trucking Company. On June 24, he was a few minutes behind his buddy traveling westbound on US 95. He was first on the scene, and recognized the wrecked trailers to be that of his buddy. It was Bob Breen who injured his leg while carrying a woman to a waiting ambulance.
The National Transportation Safety Board has just released a "preliminary" report concerning the deadly rail accident in the Forty Mile Desert near Miriam, Nevada, back in late June.
As you recall, a tractor pulling a full trailer plus a pup, skidded more than 300 feet into the side of the westbound Amtrak California Zephyr. The Zephyr was running on Union Pacific steel, enroute to the Bay Area from Chicago.
"A color video recording from the lead locomotive showed that the crossing gates were down as the train approached the crossing and the audio recording confirmed that the train horn and crossing bell were activated."
Seven lawsuits have been filed as a result of the crash. Sardonically, a counter-suit was filed against Amtrak and Union Pacific by John Davis Trucking Co last week stating the railroad companies "inadequately warned drivers crossing the tracks."
Where the heck is Vadinar?
About this time last year, the "A Whale," a brand spanking new tanker, hastily modified to become a "super oil skimmer", had totally captivated me. With a great deal of media fan fare, the "A Whale," found itself steaming in test patterns on the Gulf of Mexico, attempting to siphon oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Following her humiliating performance, she dropped off the front page and slipped quietly out of town. But I followed the "A Whale." And am I glad I did! She led us to Brazil to load her first revenue cargo of iron ore. That resulted in a four-part article on one of Brazil's premier Heavy Haul Corridor iron ore carriers, the Estrada de Ferro Carajas Railroad.
To this day, those four articles are still in the top five "What folks are reading" on this Blog, with more than 5,600 individual reads!
On this "anniversary," I was curious as to where she was a year after the fiasco on the Gulf of Mexico. So I retrieved the Global Positioning System records for the "A Whale." This is what I found.
The "A Whale" had been dispatched to Vadinar, India. You may recall the "A Whale" is a special breed of vessel, designed in such a way that her tanks allow her to carry iron ore pellets, or crude oil. Hence her designation as a VLOO - Very Large Oil Ore carrier.
So, "Where the heck is Vadinar?"
Vadinar is the location of Essar Oil Refinery Limited, the second largest oil refinery in India, located adjacent to the largest oil refinery in the world, Reliance Petroleum Limited.
Vadinar was a sleepy fishing village located on the Gulf Of Kachchh. The Gulf of Kachchh, reaches eastward from the East Arabian Sea, some 110 miles (180 km.) The gulf varies in width from 10 to 40 miles (16 to 65 km). It is rimmed with mudflats. And many small islands arise from its waters.
This small village came into international maritime maps after the country's first single point mooring system was installed in 1978. The unloading buoy is the terminus for the 1,870-kilometer (1,161 mile) Salaya-Mathura pipeline.
The Essar Petroleum complex, started in 1996 but wracked by problems, was finally completed and "on line" May 1st, 2008. In 2010, Essar refinery produced 14 mmtpa (million metric tons per anum), or 300,000 barrels per day of diesel, petrol, jet fuel, kerosene, fuel oil and bitumen.
In the United States and other countries, refinery output is measured in bbl's - barrels per day. India and many European countries measure their output in mmtpa - million metric tons per anum. The loose but simple rule of thumb for conversion is that a barrel a day is roughly 50 tonnes a year.
The Essar refinery in Vadinar has the tallest distillation tower in Asia, 97 meters (318 feet). The Vadinar refinery has successfully processed more than 32 varieties of crude from across world, including some of the "toughest crude's."
Essar will expand the refinery capacity threefold over the next few years, placing it among the five largest single-location refineries in the world.
Single Buoy Moorings are commonly used to load and unload tankers drawing too much water to safely enter a port. There are several different types of these mooring systems. See "Suggested Reading" below.
This apparatus at Vadinar is correctly referred to as a CALM mooring, Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring system. The second mooring point at Vadinar, constructed by Valentine Maritime, Limited, is adjacent to the first SBM installed in 1978.
With the assistance of a tug, the tanker is secured to the buoy. Large diameter rubber hoses with mating plates are hoisted aboard the tanker and connected to the tankers main manifold.
Wind and tide move the assembly around, which accounts for strange GPS signature.
So! Once again, the "A Whale" has directed us to yet another interesting location! | 2019-04-24T18:04:17Z | http://www.oil-electric.com/2011/08/ |
NB>snow is falling all over, don't you think?
Yeah, it looked pretty neat!
NB>very pleased to have a copy of the source.
even further (ie. remove the x and y tables and just use newPos table).
Oh yeah, I threw in a little snowflake explosion at the start too :-). | 2019-04-21T08:52:34Z | http://swag.outpostbbs.net/EGAVGA/0124.PAS.html |
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Fancy having your road tolls, parking charges and registration charges waived?
Head to Norway, where reducing your carbon footprint through the purchase of an electric vehicle will score you such benefits.
Or stay in Australia, buy a clean-energy vehicle, and look forward to high import duties, stamp duty, a luxury car tax, and a dearth of charging stations putting you at risk of conking out mid-drive.
Australia has been labelled a "laggard" in the global move toward electric vehicles by progressive think-tank Australia Institute.
"Emissions from vehicles are on the rise and Australia currently has no serious policy measures to curb their growth," said Matt Grudnoff, senior economist and author of a report released on Friday.
"Transport is the third largest sector contributing to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and there are currently no serious policies to curb these emissions."
Despite their environmental benefits and cost savings in fuel, electric vehicles in Australia are more expensive than electric cars overseas, while the well-known Tesla cars are unaffordable for most.
Only 0.1 per cent of all cars sold in Australia were electric in 2015 (1108 of the 1.1 million new cars bought), compared with 23 per cent in Norway, 1.4 per cent in France and 0.7 per cent in the US.
Bold policies championed by governments overseas have led to a rise in electric car sales and lower car emissions.
It was introduced in Germany, the Netherlands, and several American states.
Giving electric vehicles access to bus lanes should be trialled in Australia, the report recommends. Electric cars would have special licence plates to distinguish them from other cars trying to take advantage of the new rule.
This incentive would be offered only while the product was still niche to avoid bus lanes becoming congested.
Australians suffer from "range anxiety": the fear of being left stranded in a vehicle with a dead battery.
The absence of charging stations on roads and at petrol stations enhances anxiety for drivers of electric cars, which can travel between 172 kilometres and 377 kilometres on one charge.
A "visible densely distributed network" of public charging stations in areas with high traffic volumes is needed, the report states.
But setting up charging stations is costly. To avoid a monopoly, governments should offer a 75 per cent discount to companies setting up charging units in priority locations in a competitive tender process, the report states. This is what was done in New Hampshire.
Australia should adopt France's 'freebate' policy, which subsidises clean vehicles and penalises the most polluting cars, the report suggests.
Electric cars are subsidised more generously overseas.
Someone who buys an electric vehicle in California could earn both a federal tax credit of $A9583 and a $A3194 bonus payment from the state, but Australia has no comparable bonus scheme.
A luxury car tax exemption is available in Australia for clean energy vehicles costing up to $75,526 - higher than the $65,094 threshold for conventional cars.
Most hybrid vehicles don't attract the tax because they are under the threshold, however, some fully electric vehicles, which are more expensive to build due to their larger battery size (the Tesla Model Scosts nearly $91,000) are not exempt, despite being more energy efficient.
The report says all electric vehicles should be exempt.
India is replacing all petrol and diesel cars with electric vehicles by 2030, the Netherlands is banning petrol and diesel cars from 2025 and Norway is looking to ensure that all new cars are electric by 2025.
But no such plan is in store for Australia.
A spokesman for federal Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher said the government backed a $100 million asset finance program to boost electric vehicle sales and was consulting widely on "possible reforms".
Victorian Roads Minister Luke Donnellan said VicRoads "already offers a $100 annual discount on registration of hybrid and electric vehicles" and Victoria has the highest number of charging stations in Australia.
Shadow energy minister David Southwick said it was "inevitable" that electric vehicles would "one day make up the majority of cars on the road". He said governments needed to cut red tape and reduce regulations, but did not specify how he would do this if the Coalition were in government.
Greens transport spokeswoman Samantha Dunn said her party supported an increase in the luxury car tax for conventional vehicles and boosting electric charging stations. She said allowing electric vehicles to access bus lanes would be "detrimental" to bus travel times. | 2019-04-23T21:06:40Z | https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/why-electric-cars-have-hit-a-dead-end-in-australia-20171012-gyzs5j.html |
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The result predicted that major causes of greenhouse gases were found ‘high use of inorganic farm inputs’ (2.88), ‘intensive tillage practices’ (2.75), ‘mechanization of farm practices’, (2.66), ‘non- adoption of diversified agriculture’ (2.52), ‘non-adoption of crop rotation; (2.46), and ‘burning of crop residue in field’ (1.95) with their respective weighted mean scores. The losses due to greenhouse gases were found ‘crop benefit ratio decreased’ (1.23), ‘crop damaged due to adverse climatic uncertainty’ (1.07), ‘crop production decreased’ (0.89), ‘sowing season change (0.86), ‘loss in bio-diversity’ (0.84), ‘less income from agriculture’ (0.81), ‘soil water holding capacity decreased’ (0.68) based on their ‘Z’ scores. Results pertaining adoption of remedial measures for sequestration of greenhouse gases for sustainable agriculture were ‘evolution of new crops cultivars’ (2.95), ‘crop diversification’ (2.90), ‘use zero tillage practices’ (2.81) ‘integrated farming system’ (2.79) ‘adapting cultivars against drought, pests, diseases, resistance’ (2.78), ‘soil/water testing for soil status’ (2.77), ‘encouraging of rice varieties that emit less CH4 (2.73), ‘campaigning for sequestration of GHGs (2.67)’, ‘growing intercrops/mixed cropping to compensate crop failure’, (2.62) and ‘management of natural resources soil, water and biodiversity’ (2.61) considered very effective remedial measures with their mean scores, respectively.
Shehrawat P. S., Muketshwar R. 2015, GREENHOUSE GASES: CAUSES, LOSSES AND REMEDIAL MEASURES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 2, PRINT ISSN 2284-7995, 363-370. | 2019-04-22T17:17:32Z | http://managementjournal.usamv.ro/index.php/scientific-papers/961-greenhouse-gases-causes-losses-and-remedial-measures-for-sustainable-agriculture-961 |
The Round 3 program will run from 2019-2021. The investment decision making process is scheduled to begin in 2019, with project start-up in late 2019, and capability activities transitioning into core Queensland Health before the Queensland Genomics program concludes in 2021.
Early work has begun on the Round 3 investment, and it is planned to include elements in pharmacogenomics, along with stronger engagement with the primary health care system and allied health, as well as strengthen national and international collaborations.
Further details about Round 3 will be released in early 2019.
To stay up to date on Queensland Genomics activities and future funding opportunities, sign up for our eNewsletter. | 2019-04-22T16:06:48Z | https://www.qgha.org/round-3-overview |
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The bouquet was simply classic in every way. Sweet aromas of red berry, with cedar box, dried roses and tar lifted from the glass. On the palate, it showed savory notes of dark red fruit with saline minerals, balsamic tones and spice. The ’89 Cicala is rich and focused for its age, closing with cedar and balsamic tones lingering long.
Stored in cool cellar for ages.
Bottles are in excellent condition.
1989, was probably the greatest vintage in recent times. | 2019-04-19T04:18:03Z | https://www.bidforwine.co.uk/auctions/show/141533 |
This page displays sold house prices for Burnedge Fold Road in Oldham.
Burnedge Fold Road in Grasscroft, Oldham consists predominantly of detached houses. Properties on Burnedge Fold Road typically have values around £350,000 - £500,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £700,000.
Map showing Burnedge Fold Road in Oldham. | 2019-04-19T20:13:26Z | https://www.oldham.org.uk/house-prices/Burnedge_Fold_Road--Grasscroft/ |
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Use these 2 Simple Practices for Building Strong Family Relationships to help you create the kind of relationships you want in your family!
Relationships are hard. I'm always looking for tips to improve the most important relationships in my life because I don't know about you, but I could use every bit of help I can get.
I am not going to say anything ground breaking. I just think we need reminders that these relationships need to be nurtured. And these tips are not hard at all!
1. Communicate with your family members.
Remember when you and your husband were dating, you used to spend hours talking? When is the last time you did that?
I know you talk everyday. You tell him what the kids are doing and he tells you about his day at work. But have you talked about your goals, your dreams, and the things that are important to you?
Honestly, when was the last time you even had an uninterrupted conversation?
In order to have a good relationship, you and your spouse need to talk. Plan a date night soon (even if you don't leave the house) and use that time to talk to one another.
Conversation starting questions are perfect if you're not sure where to start! I have a ton on my Pinterest Relationship board.
The more time you spend talking to and being with your spouse, the more solid your relationship will be!
Where do you go every day after school?
What things are bothering you?
Are there any situations, friends, teachers, school subjects that you are struggling with?
they see on social media. They do not have the tools to know how to put that into perspective. Add in pressure from academics, sports, family, etc and they are struggling.
If they don't have parents on their side, willing to listen, to ask questions, and get to know them, they don't know how to process everything they experience and feel!
Kids need someone in their corner,helping them to navigate this crazy world!
To have good relationships, you have to spend time together. That's it.
Support one another in activities.
In our family, all of us go to football games, swim meets, and basketball games as much as possible to watch each other.
Attend church together on Sunday.
of how important it is to have that shared foundation.
Eat dinner together, at the dinner table, as often as possible.
I know we are all busy. We all have evenings that dinner together is impossible. But I know if families will make dinner together a priority, it will improve relationships. There's something special about gathering together at the end of the day as a family.
In our family, we go around the table every night and say our high's and lows of the day. It gives me so much information into my kids' day and the things that are bothering them.
Play games together- laugh and enjoy each other. Occasionally go out and do something you all enjoy- such as mini golf or bowling. Go for walks or hikes. Go on date nights.
Whatever your interests are- just spend time together.
In our busy day to day lives, our relationships can take a back seat. We are so busy working, building our business, car pooling, child rearing, sports playing and watching, that we don't put enough effort into our families. We can easily take our relationships for granted.
For anything to be good, it takes effort. If you want your relationships to be strong you have to make them a priority!
Communicating and and Spending Time Together really are not difficult to do!
So as I set goals at the start of the new year, I am going to prioritize the time in my day so that I can work on strengthening my relationships with my husband and with my children! | 2019-04-21T04:46:27Z | https://www.shescraftycrafty.com/2018/01/2-simple-practices-for-building-strong.html |
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Gentlemen, this is a model I made for the Sherline contest quite a few years back. I took the drawings for the Stuart Twin Launch and scaled them down. Most of the bolts are 1x.25 mm. That's an American quarter in front of it.
Wow. however do those Americans get those 8" dia Quarters in their pockets?
That's a seriously nice bit of work George.
That is a beauty! Very nice work George.
I was wondering if I used the the same quarter as him!
That quarter thing reminded me of an April Fool joke pulled in a model railroad amgazine. Somebody had built and HO scale engine and placed it on a very large reproduction of a coin. They claimed is was a new micro minuature scale. The detail was outstanding. Had many fooled for a while.
Hello, this is my first posting here. I just wanted to say this is a wonderful engine. I'd be interested in the scaled down plans for it too, if available.
Hello and welcome to the collective kno3.
I don't believe there are plans available in the scaled down version. I believe george took the orginal Stuart plans and made his model from that only smaller.
Here is the company that has the Stuart 10 that George scaled his mdoel from. It's the third picture down. Don't know if you can just get the plans.
I don't know how I missed seeing this when you posted it George. If I didn't know your capabilities I would be tempted to believe that the Quarters were larger than life. Very nice work on that engine.
the drawings for the launch twin are avaiable as a spare part from Stuart Models. | 2019-04-22T06:12:45Z | https://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,2478.msg29878.html |
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Are Computers Able to Track and Prevent Stock Fraud and Insider Trading?
There are quite a few forms that securities fraud can take, but most people in the know will recognize the “pump and dump” as the one most commonly seen. Even though this type of scam has become more complex since the advent of the internet, luckily enough, they remain easily spotted.
For those unfamiliar with the pump and dump, it involves buying a lot of a specific stock in order to inflate the price and then selling while the price is up to make a nice profit. While the price drops, investors are left clueless as to why their investments are suddenly worthless.
While the pump and dump is the most common, it certainly isn’t the only type of stock fraud out there.
Yes, since the internet has been around, fraud and insider trading have also evolved. However, it is still entirely possible for those things to be tracked and even prevented by the use of computers. One way to learn how to do that is to get a degree in computer information systems.
This is a rapidly changing field, too. Advances in the analytics of big data, the explosion of mobile computing, and people being on the internet 24/7 has led to massive growth in both the diversity and the amounts of data available. Because of the evolution of IT and the quickly introduced technologies that are game changing, IT professionals are constantly learning new skills. These skills include learning to track and prevent fraud of all types – including stock fraud.
Aside from fraud being tracked by IT professionals, there are criminal justice graduates on the case. Regardless of popular opinion, criminal justice graduates work in other fields besides as police officers. There are criminal justice professionals on the staff at the White House, working in nuclear security, and other positions as well as police chiefs and even attorneys. These attorneys include people who are involved with tracking and preventing things like the investment fraud that we have been talking about.
Someone looking into getting a degree in criminal justice might find a job as a member of law enforcement, somewhere in the court system, something in the penal system, or anything in between those things. That means that even after the perpetrators of investment fraud have been caught, they will still be dealing with criminal justice professionals through their time in court and even their time in prison.
Just as it is with everything else, information technology is having a hand at reshaping investing. If you take a look at the stock market between the 1950s and the 1980s, you will see that everything there stayed pretty copasetic. Right after the rise of network connectivity on a large scale, though, the market just had a growth explosion.
This trend has continued from then until now. According to experts, this is no coincidence either. The age of the internet has been a major factor in reshaping the landscape of trading due to the fact that all of the players in the investing game have amazing access to more information than ever and this allows them to make decisions that are better informed.
That said, all of the new technology has also made it quite a bit easier to track investment fraud on a real-time basis. It has also made it easier to prevent. | 2019-04-26T04:09:18Z | http://www.stockrants.com/2016/10/11/are-computers-able-to-track-and-prevent-stock-fraud-and-insider-trading.html |
Labour Party Chancellor, John McDonnell, set a confident tone in his speech to the 2018 Labour conference. Whereas shadow chancellors normally address conference to dampen expectations, John stated he would do the opposite, because “the greater the mess we inherit, the more radical we have to be”.
The British Labour Party is currently holding its annual conference in Liverpool, UK. Members and supporters of Socialist Appeal (British section of the IMT) have been intervening, raising our slogans of nationalisation, reinstating Clause IV (committing Labour to socialism) and kicking out the Blairites. The comrades provide this report on the conference thus far, which has already seen a stitch up to keep discussion of mandatory reselection of MPs off the table.
In Britain, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have made a number of bold and much-welcomed pledges in order to fix the "broken economy". But what kind of economic programme should a Labour government carry out?
There are now fewer than 200 days to go before the UK officially leaves the European Union and still no agreement has been reached over the terms of its departure. As Theresa May and many of her European counterparts meet in Salzburg, they will be hoping that with enough fudge they will be able to deliver a deal that survives a ratification vote in the British parliament. But the opposition of as many as 70 Tory MPs could be enough to shatter their proposals and send the UK crashing out of the EU without any deal on 29 March 2019.
One year ago, the Catalan independence referendum on 1 October became a turning point in the whole political situation in Catalonia and throughout the Spanish state. What we call the “Republican October” was characterised by an abrupt entry of the masses into the political arena. It saw an impressive mobilisation from below that challenged the apparatus of the state and the hesitation of the leaders of the Generalitat, becoming one of the most important challenges faced by the 1978 regime in 40 years. It could have gone much further. What was missing?
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Intersectional feminist scholarship moves beyond issues solely focusing on gender and sexuality in order to address the complex realities that we embody and experience. Race, ethnicity, class, nationality, age, ability, and other dimensions of difference or social locators do not exist apart from gender and sexuality. Instead, these aspects of individual identity, interpersonal relationships, social institutions, policies, politics, and cultures intersect to form myriad experiences and power arrangements. In pursuit of greater understanding of multiple perspectives and increased social equality, we must examine the most salient social locations in a given case or study.
Powell, Amber Joy, Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla. 2017. Intersectionality and Credibility in Child Sexual Assault Trials. Gender & Society 31 (4): 457-480.
Children remain largely absent from sociolegal scholarship on sexual violence. Taking an intersectional approach to the analysis of attorneys’ strategies during child sexual assault trials, this article argues that legal narratives draw on existing gender, racial, and age stereotypes to present legally compelling evidence of credibility. This work builds on Crenshaw’s focus on women of color, emphasizing the role of structures of power and inequality in constituting the conditions of children’s experiences of adjudication. Using ethnographic observations of courtroom jury trials, transcripts, and court records, three narrative themes of child credibility emerged: invisible wounds, rebellious adolescents, and dysfunctional families. Findings show how attorneys use these themes to emphasize the child’s unmarked body, imperceptible emotional responses, rebellious character, and harmful familial environments. The current study fills a gap in sexual assault research by moving beyond trial outcomes to address cultural narratives within the court that are inextricably embedded in intersectional dimensions of power and the reproduction of social status.
Lépinard, Éléonore. 2014. Doing intersectionality: repertoires of feminist practices in France and Canada. Gender & Society 28 (6): 877-903.
Lépinard applies the intersectionality framework to women’s rights organizations, looking to see if and how this concept has been adopted by various women’s rights organizations. Doing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, the author draws from interview data with activists working in various women’s rights organizations in France and Canada. The author demonstrates how intersectionality is used and understood by these organizations (how they fail and succeed with the intersectional challenges), which she calls repertoires, as a way to understand the social experience and the political interests of women in various intersectional positionalities. There are also national differences across France and Canada that bring in notions of citizenship and immigration. This is a great piece for addressing issues in social movements and academic versus activist understandings of concepts relevant to both groups.
Flippen, Chenoa A. 2013. Intersectionality at work: Determinants of labor supply among immigrant Latinas. Gender & Society 28 (3): 404-434.
This interesting piece by Flippen uses the intersectionality framework to examine how legal status, labor market position and family shape the labor supply of Latinas in Durham, North Carolina, which is a new immigrant destination. The author uses data from a local, representative survey of Latino immigrants and interviews in Durham/Chapel Hill metro area. The initial survey, conducted between 2001 and 2002, included 209 women between the ages of 18 and 49. In 2006 and 2007, an additional 910 were interviewed, for a total sample size of 1,119 women. The author shows, for instance, that Latina women’s position in the economy constrains their labor supply. For example, human capital (e.g., education) does not translate into significant gains in labor market participation. English language skills and time work better at shaping whether women work and work full-time. However, legal status and family status are disadvantage for immigrant Latina’s labor market experiences. This is a good article to introduce to students because legal status and national origin seem to be an important piece in the intersections framework, and this study also cuts across other important arenas – family and work, and transnationalism.
Bose, Christine E. 2012. Intersectionality and global gender inequality. Gender & Society 26 (1): 67-72.
In a symposium on the work of Patricia Hill Collins, Bose describes global approaches to intersectional scholarship. Intersectional research plays an important role in social policy worldwide, particularly useful because this lens does not pit oppressions against one another. Scholars may choose from a variety of interpretations of what intersectionality is and how to employ it methodologically. Bose discusses group-centered, process-centered, and system-centered practices of intersectionality. She argues that researchers can amend a system-centered approach to study salient intersecting inequalities within and across nations.
Harvey Wingfield, Adia. 2009. Racializing the glass escalator: Reconsidering men’s experiences with women’s work. Gender & Society 23 (1): 5-26.
Building on the “glass escalator” concept of how men tokens enjoy advantages in women-dominated occupations, Harvey Wingfield argues that black men do not enjoy the same ride as their white counterparts. The author examines racialized aspects of the gendered mechanisms that move white men upward in traditionally female occupations that mitigate these effects for black men. These “glass barriers” include racist stereotypes about black men, acts of blatant discrimination, and white supremacist perceptions of occupation suitability. Another glass barrier involves black men as unwilling to dissociate from feminized aspects of their occupation, which points to a caring self that men of color adapt as a tactic to combat racial inequality and reject white hegemonic masculinity. These findings suggest efforts to promote equality in the workplace should combine undoing gender by blurring the boundaries between femininity and masculinity with upsetting systems of racial inequality that marginalize men of color.
Andersen, Margaret. 2005. Thinking about women: A quarter century’s view. Gender & Society 19 (4): 437-55.
Andersen provides a thorough overview of feminist sociology, advocating for an incorporation of power, historical, and structural analyses in studies of gender and sexuality. Gender and sexuality, however, cannot and should not be extracted from the web of social locations (or flavors or whatever metaphor you prefer) in which they exist. This intersectional view understands gender as a piece of larger puzzles of social realities including race, class, sexuality, and nationality. This theoretical perspective allows us to conceptualize how gender (and other locators) shape symbols, interactions, structures, and other social phenomena. This article analyzes central debates in feminist sociology, giving helpful background information alongside detailed critiques. These key focuses of feminist scholarship include structure and agency, power, sexuality, intersectionality, and inequality. Everyday realities, privileges, hardships as well as diverse experiences and practices form a social world chock full of complexities for us to examine.
Gender & Society in the Classroom is curated by scholars in the field and is a listing of articles that would be relevant in certain classrooms. These lists are not exhaustive but contain a small section of important articles that can begin to start classroom discussion on a variety of topics.
Organized by Kyla Walters, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Updated by Linda Gjokaj, Oakland University. Comments and suggestions contact gendsoc@oakland.edu. | 2019-04-18T14:29:12Z | https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/gender-society-in-the-classrooms-guide-for-syllabi-on-intersectionality/ |
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A reasonable person may wonder what any of that means. A discerning consumer will see through the marketing jargon and wonder if its implicit claim – our helmets are better than others at protecting football players from head injuries – is true.
That's what UW Health athletic trainer and researcher Tim McGuine, PhD, ATC, and Pediatric and Sports Medicine physician Alison Brooks, MD, MPH, and are trying to find out, too.
In a study that will use data collected during the upcoming Wisconsin high school football season, McGuine and Brooks hope to determine if helmets produced by Riddell, Schutt and Xenith – the three companies that supply the vast majority of helmets used in high school football in Wisconsin – are superior in concussion prevention.
Right now, any such claim is conjecture.
Nationwide, all football helmets used in high school competition are certified by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), which performs a series of laboratory drop and impact tests to insure each helmet meets established safety standards. But that standard is not the absolute prevention of concussions.
"The reality is all of the helmets work extremely well for what they were designed for – to prevent skull fractures and facial injuries," says Dr. Brooks.
But what about concussions? The manufacturers' marketing efforts have spurred more confusion than resolution.
"We were getting questions from coaches and parents about helmet companies saying their helmets can prevent concussions," says Dr. Brooks. "There's really no evidence to support that. There has been no large-scale research study to look at helmets head-to-head to see if one helmet prevents concussions better than another."
The study will track approximately 2,000 football players who volunteered to be subjects during the upcoming season, starting with summer practices and extending through the playoffs. The first step is to learn about their sports and corresponding injury histories, so each subject is asked an array of questions about head injuries sustained during their entire football lives and beyond, even if that meant tracing their careers all the way back to Pop Warner leagues or accounting for a tumble from a bicycle when they were 11 years old.
"How many years have you played tackle football in a league? How many concussions did you have last year? If you had a concussion, were you knocked unconscious?" says Dr. McGuine, running off a long list of factors for which the investigators must account. "To do this effectively we have to track how many times they practice, how many times they play, their injury histories. It's going to be a multifactorial approach. We're going to look at all the variables."
The study's catalyzing triggers are concussions, which account for 13.2 percent of all injuries amongst high school athletes, according to Ohio State research Dawn Comstock. When study participants are injured during practice or a game, McGuine and Brooks will work with the school's athletic trainers to record the event's most minute details. The player's age, his level of play, the cause of the injury (was he blocking or being blocked? Tackling or being tackled?), whether he was playing in a game or practice, and on artificial turf or natural grass – all of the factors contributing to the concussion will analyzed.
And they'll also record the helmets the players wear when they are hurt, which will be integrated with the rest of the data to determine the veracity of the helmet manufacturers' claims.
"At the end of the season we're going to look at how many concussions occurred and see if there was a predominance of concussions in one type of helmet versus another," says Dr. Brooks.
At its conclusion the study results will be submitted for review, and the investigators hope their conclusions can help guide parents who are trying to decide whether paying a lot of money – some helmets cost almost $400 – for a custom helmet will pay off by decreasing the chance their son will suffer a concussion on the football field. | 2019-04-23T10:37:20Z | https://www.uwhealth.org/news/do-certain-football-helmets-prevent-concussions/38687 |
If you are coming with Albatros Cruises to the port of call Halong bay and if you are looking for an excursion in Halong Bay, Bhaya Cruises services have been optimized just for you. We have different types of boat and they are customized for all kinds of excursions in the area. Our team has experience in serving Albatros’ customers, whether you are looking for a 1-day trip or an overnight stay, Bhaya Cruises has the boat for you.
However, we have small boats for groups up to 8 persons with full services (food and beverage). The advantage of renting a private boat is that you can maximize your stay in Halong Bay and return to the main dock for the departure of the Albatros. Price for a group of two starts from USD 250/ person for a 5 hours cruise to USD 350/ person for an overnight stay. Meals and sightseeing tickets included.
Price starts from USD 120/ person for a half day cruise to USD 190/ person for two days one night cruise. A tender for express check-out service is available for you to return directly to the Albatros dock with a small extra fee.
This is the best boat of our fleet featuring 32 spacious luxury cabins and suites. The steel hull 60 meters long boat is built for longer and deeper cruising into the bay. Take this option if you plan to extend your stay in Halong Bay or if you expect the best luxury facilities. Day cruise, two days and three days cruises available on request. Prices start from USD 350/ person for a 1-day cruise to USD 500/ person for a 3-day cruise. The Au Co offers free pick up from the Albatros Dock by either car or speedboat to fit your timing. | 2019-04-19T12:42:26Z | https://www.bhayacruises.com/blog/albatros-cruises-port-of-call-halong-bay-excursion/ |
Between 1862 and his death in 1908 Joseph Mathia Svoboda, born to a family of European origin in Baghdad, kept diaries detailing the journeys he made as purser aboard British Lynch Company steamships plying the Tigris between Baghdad and Basra. In addition to recording ship data, including weather, river conditions, cargoes, passengers, port calls, epidemic diseases, and other significant events affecting the ship, he adorns his narrative with accounts of his large extended family, an extensive circle of friends, his relations with local officials, and political and social gossip. The result is a unique glimpse of life from the perspective of the European expatriate community of 19th century Iraq. Copyright © 2016 Newbook Digital Texts. All Rights Reserved. | 2019-04-24T06:52:48Z | https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/36912 |
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The Baran Diversinates™ enable Late-Stage Functionalization of heteroaromatic C-H bonds without the need for chemical handles or pre-functionalization. With operational simplicity (reactions are not sensitive to air or moisture), this suite of reagents can impart a diverse range of new functionality to simple heterocycles and complex bioactive small molecules, alike. Indeed, a growing list of Baran Diversinates™ allows for the inclusion of both pharmaceutically relevant bioisosteres and new bioconjugation linkers to your lead compound.
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About L & L – Live & Learn L.L.C.
The goals of Live & Learn are to promote and facilitate business ventures in South County, help future managers establish foundations for a successful career, and help keep the small downtown economies of rural and suburban Rhode Island vital. As a micro incubator for entrepreneurial dreamers and future managers with a dynamic community offering, Live & Learn is well placed to do its part in reaching those goals.
What’s In It for Future Entrepreneurs?
Why Jamestown? To offer an effective micro incubation of a service, product or idea, the venue has to be small enough that each unit trial run is a noticeable event, and large enough that a sufficient number of people will participate. Jamestown has a walkable downtown with numerous storefronts. The town is not large enough to support a wide variety of year-round stores and services, but a small, dynamic venue works well, keeping local interest piqued with access to a changing lineup of activities, goods and services. The demand for any one service or product is sufficient over a short term to incubate an entrepreneurial dream and enhance community access to goods and services at the same time.
For the budding entrepreneur who is thinking of starting a business in rural or suburban South County, the ability to practice your business in a similar community before starting up is a valuable safeguard. Jamestown is well placed demographically to be effective as a micro incubator and geographically to be easily accessible to many entrepreneurial dreamers, particularly those in the suburban and rural communities south of Providence. There are several towns in Rhode Island with populations under 10,000 whose residents would welcome and benefit from a dynamic offering of goods and services. As Live & Learn gains success as a micro incubator, the project can spread to other towns and continue the give and take of micro incubation.
For Consumers in Jamestown, Live & Learn offers a dynamic market of goods, services, learning and enrichment that changes over the course of weeks throughout the year so that there is always something new to try or try again. A prominent downtown keeps the changing micro markets community-facing. As the concept of the dynamic incubation project gains repute in the town, consumers watch the project’s calendar to see what is coming next. Live & Learn’s offerings cater to the dynamic demands of the consumer base. Even though the odds of year-round success for any one product, service or idea are low, short term exposure will be desirable, capitalizing on existing demand and initial curiosity. Access to a steady stream of new or innovative products and services adds to the vitality of a small community and is sustainable because it is dynamic, always responding to the rhythm of the community and its needs and desires.
For Entrepreneurial Dreamers, Live & Learn provides the opportunity to test an idea, skill or hobby as a business venture without the risk of long term commitment and the difficulty of finding a focus group. In addition, Live & Learn offers initial business services including advertising, marketing, accounting and assessment, allowing the budding entrepreneur to focus on trying out the idea. As part of the exit process, Live & Learn offers feedback on the relative success of the effort and includes a detailed packet of the business services used to launch the initiative.
Some of the participating entrepreneurs will want to return to Live & Learn after adjusting the product or service, or in an effort to try and gauge if initial success can be sustained in the community. The small communities of Rhode Island vary in the businesses they have enough demand to support long term. Access to Live & Learn in such communities offers budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to test out a community without expending a lot of scarce time and resources.
Additionally, Live & Learn facilitates the full start-up process with practical assistance and facilitation of community engagement.
Live & Learn was founded by Gina Malloy, J.D., a highly successful non-profit executive with over fifteen years of experience starting, managing, directing and retooling non-profit organizations and start-up projects, working with budgets and assets from the tens of thousands to multiple millions. She has successfully transitioned and reformatted staff structures and boards of directors and has a track record of increasing efficiency and output with careful attention to need, ability, demand and potential. With a 90% success rate in grant submissions, she has helped organizations, large and small, move their strategic plans forward. With Live & Learn, Gina is committed to lending her knowledge and experience to helping organizations grow and evolve, giving new graduates a leg up on the management ladder, and helping people try out their business dreams, learning through low-risk experience whether to take the next step as entrepreneurs.
Do you have a skill, talent or knowledge to share? Are you thinking of maybe one day starting your own business? Would you like to turn your hobby into a sideline business? Call or email us to get started. Live & Learn is committed to helping groups and individuals test the waters of starting a business in a low-cost, low-risk environment. We incubate the dreaming stage of business start-ups. Let us help you test out your business dream.
Live & Learn Kitchen offers all-natural, homemade desserts, snacks and meals. You can grab and go or sit and snack. Special orders are also available. | 2019-04-23T22:26:00Z | https://liveandlearnri.com/about/ |
Mother Nature is life’s all-knowing MD, and her prescription is a healthy getaway into the stress-free world of this country’s beautiful national and state parks! Fill your prescription this National Park Rx Day on April 29th by escaping the day-to-day pressures of busy concrete jungles and submerging yourself in natural tranquility. Experience unforgettable outdoor activities in the middle of awe-inspiring views normally seen on the Discovery Channel at one of these gorgeous parks.
The Mount Rainier National Park boasts 240 miles of trails for hiking and exploring the great outdoors. At 14,410 feet tall, Mount Rainier is one of the most iconic mountains in the country and an ideal spot for climbers and adventure seekers. The area is perfect for fishing and camping and even offers educational programs for park guests to learn more about safety, nature, and the history of Mount Rainier.
With crystal clear waters, abundant marine wildlife, vibrant azaleas and mystical waterfalls, Rainbow Springs State Park offers guests a leisurely and adventurous getaway in one of the state’s most unique destinations. This beautiful 1,472-acre park is home to the nationally recognized Rainbow River and its enormous natural spring. Rainbow Springs is an enchanting park where families can swim, kayak, canoe, snorkel, tube, or enjoy Ranger-guided tours.
Weeki Wachee State Park has been attracting families looking for out-of-the-ordinary vacation experiences and delighting guests with sensational performances since 1947. The park features extravagant paddling and riverboat cruises on the Weeki Wachee River; wildlife animal shows; junior mermaid, lifeguard, and ranger camps; and, of course, the legendary, highly acclaimed mermaid shows.
With 19 magnificent waterfalls, an astonishing gorge, the Cavern Cascade, nearby Seneca Lake and the Catherine Creek, it’s no wonder this stunning park was voted third best in the country in 2015 by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice Polls. Watkins Glen also offers a wide variety of amenities such as an Olympic- size swimming pool, public grills, playgrounds, playing fields, a gift shop, plenty of camping area and camper recreation. Visitors come from all over to enjoy the world-class fishing, hunting, biking, and hiking or just to enjoy an unforgettable day in nature.
Wakulla Springs State Park visitors enjoy a wide variety of spectacular activities like the fan-favorite 22-foot dive into fresh spring waters, the glass-bottom riverboat tours on the magical Wakulla River, and countless unforgettable hiking trails. The park is home to the world’s largest freshwater spring as well as The Lodge at Wakulla Springs, a vintage 1930s castle adored for its historic accommodations.
As you walk through the unforgettable coastal mangroves, sawgrass prairie and pine flatwoods of the Everglades you are greeted by prehistoric-looking alligators and crocodiles, more than 300 gorgeous species of fish and birds and, if you’re lucky, the endangered Florida panther. It doesn’t take long to understand how rich with life this place is and you quickly discover why this is one of the most visited National Parks in the country. The park offers camping, kayaking, canoeing and plenty of other unforgettable outdoor experiences.
Hidden away in the mountains of Washington State, the Lodge at Stehekin boasts pristine, untouched nature at its finest. To get the full Stehekin tour, with stops at Rainbow Falls and High Bridge/Pacific Crest Trail, a ride on the Red Bus is an absolute must. Other great activities include individual or guided kayaking tours on Lake Chelan; easy, moderate, and difficult day hikes; backpacking; biking; fishing; and horseback riding.
With several locations throughout the District of Columbia, Boating in DC is full of fun activities to get you outdoors and loving life. Some of our favorites include the Swan Boats, pedal boating, sunrise yoga, stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, sailing, hydro-biking, and numerous monument tours from the water.
There’s no better way to stay fit than by spending your Park Rx Day paddling around beautiful Massachusetts! Boating in Boston has several fantastic locations throughout the Greater Boston area, so it’s easy for you to enjoy all that the great outdoors has to offer. With canoeing, kayaking, windsurfing, quad-pedal boating, sailing, rowboating, and more, there’s no shortage of fun water activities and adventures at any of the five Boating in Boston destinations!
Although Lake Roosevelt is most famous for the amazing houseboat experience it provides, there are so many other ways to enjoy the rich natural beauty of Lake Roosevelt. The Lake’s wildlife rivals any other major destination in the state. Here you can witness eagles, osprey, bobcats, moose, bears, and a host of freshwater fish. Lake Roosevelt is an ideal spot for animal lovers, but it’s also an excellent destination for all kinds of watersports such as tubing and water skiing.
We can agree that in this super modernized world it’s good to get off the grid and disconnect from our devices. Echo Bluff State Park allows you to do just that! Tucked away in the Missouri Ozarks, Echo Bluff is home to some of nature’s most treasured views. With hiking and mountain biking options galore, Echo Bluff makes it easy to get outside and stay active. Echo Bluff’s Sinking Creek and Current River are also wonderful spots for fishing, tubing, kayaking, canoeing, and paddleboarding. There’s even an Adventure Playground where kids love to make their own fun!
Nestled in the Hudson Valley, Bear Mountain is an idyllic getaway for those looking to lose themselves in the spectacular natural environment. Guests enjoy awe-inspiring views from Bear Mountain’s many hiking trails while fishers rejoice at the world-class fly-fishing opportunities. Other fun activities include boating, cross-country skiing, and ice skating—it’s the outdoor enthusiast’s paradise!
Nothing inspires as much wonder as the magnificent redwood forests of Big Sur. Seated in just the right spot for enjoying the breathtaking beauty of Big Sur, Big Sur Lodge is host to numerous hiking trails and is the perfect location for historical sightseeing, whale watching, bird watching, and day trips to other iconic destinations. Visitors also enjoy long walks on one of the many local beaches, including Pfeiffer Beach and Garrapata Beach. Whichever option you choose, Big Sur Lodge is just what the doctor ordered. | 2019-04-21T14:50:48Z | https://www.guestservices.com/news/2018/04/11/2860/ |
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What RIMM doesn’t say (and, as far as I can tell, no one else has noted) is that Apple has surpassed them in total smartphone revenues. This quarter RIMM reported sales of $4.1 billion in revenue for their whole company. Apple surpassed them, selling $4.6 billion worth of iPhones in Q4 2009 and, more recently, $5.6 billion in Q1 2010. Remember, the iPhone didn’t exist until mid 2007.i Phone sales have gone from zero to $5.6 billion in about 900 days. It’s very hard to compete against that explosive growth. | 2019-04-21T10:09:44Z | http://www.asymco.com/2010/04/04/apple-surpasses-rim-in-total-smartphone-revenues/ |
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Why not just use Quickbooks? | 2019-04-19T00:34:28Z | http://pubassist.com/articles/Index.asp |
Join us this evening as we interview Katie Bassett who is a Pain control consultant nurse in the hospital. Pastor Eric will be asking her about her faith in the work place.
Refreshments will follow the service which are fair trade and free of charge. | 2019-04-20T22:12:38Z | http://vazonelim.org.gg/calendar/event.php?event=5989&monthly_view=grid&calendar_category_id=0 |
This week is a healthy eating controlled diet and my new outlook to completely plan my entire eating from meals to snacks. This will help me prep meals and plan my weekly shopping – with the goal to get healthier.
My food bill for this week was just over £50 for 2 adults & 1 Little person. Majority purchased at Aldi with brands purchased from Morrisons and M&S.
All meals will be made from scratch apart from M&S Pork & Chorizo Pie which is pre-made shop bought.
Previous post Getting fitter & healthier? Chances are we are over-thinking things…. | 2019-04-24T04:36:56Z | https://mamafurfur.com/uncategorized/mealplanmonday-week-of-27th-october-2014/ |
Carrie Ogilvie has lived all her life in Harwood Maryland around the corner from Enticement Farm. She has had a love of horses her whole life and was very excited when she started riding around the age of six. Carrie graduated from Southern High School and is now working toward a degree in early childhood education. She has been working with young children at the local elementary school where she volunteers in the kindergarten classes. Carrie has had the joy of being instructed by Deana Tice and learning about horses from her. She has been working at the farm for seven years and has been teaching for six years. Carrie leased a horse named Ziggy for four years. During that time, she learned a lot and had a lot of fun showing. Carrie now has her own horse, Sonny, that she got when she was 17 and loves being able to work near her horse everyday. She also showed Sonny for a couple years after she got him. Carrie was a member of 4-H where she was able to show Ziggy and Sonny at the County Fair. She enjoys riding, being at the barn, and working with her students. She loves to see the smiles on their faces when they have accomplished something new. | 2019-04-21T08:40:23Z | http://www.enticementstables.com/carrie-ogilvie/ |
Just for giggles I signed up for 10,000 untargeted visitors from TrafficTaxi.Net if all goes will I will most likely delete this post and keep the secret to myself. Most likely it won’t be worth the $20 I spent. This is over a 30 day period. I will try another traffic mechanism after this. | 2019-04-21T07:00:46Z | http://www.jaygeiger.com/index.php/2006/03/23/untargetted-traffic/ |
For the first time, I am teaching a course that I designed from top to bottom. The course is called Finance & Investment Law. In the first class, I told my students that I take both full responsibility and credit for this course. I love having control over the both the design and delivery, but it is a lot more work and more pressure.
For the first time, I am teaching a course at a university. Up until now, I have only taught at the college level. Here, in Canada, post-secondary education is organized in two groups: universities and colleges. Universities focus on under-graduate, graduate, and post-graduate degree programs and research. College typically provide applied education in diploma, certificate and, some times, degree programs. I have a feeling that the teaching challenges at the under-graduate university level are very similar to those at colleges. At my first university class week, I was pleasantly surprised that most of the class arrived at least 10 minutes early and many students took copious notes throughout the class. I can get used to that.
For the first time, I am teaching a course in a post-graduate program. The program is a post-graduate certificate in international business. The students in this program already have at least a bachelor’s degree. I am impressed with how engaged and enthusiastic my students are.
Critically evaluate my teaching approaches and actively solve identified problems.
Collaborate with colleagues by sharing ideas and materials.
Be agile and adaptable to students’ different learning styles.
Initiate change where change is needed in course design and delivery.
Always be clear and transparent in my communications with students.
Seek out information from influential educators such as Tony Wagner.
Apply curiosity and imagination in my teaching.
In this festive season, we freely share our good cheer and, not to mention, our wealth with others. Sharing is the one of the most valued of human qualities. Our ability to share and work cooperatively is what distinguishes us from other species. It is what allows us to achieve and build great things.
When we are but mere toddlers, we quickly learn the concept of “mine!”. Our parents then teach us that it is good to share. However, along the way to adulthood, our capitalist society and perhaps our natural tendencies kick in to instill in us the importance of private property and exclusive rights. “Let’s share” reverts back to “Mine!”.
In our professional lives, should we freely share our ideas and work product? It, of course, depends on the situation and your personality. I have in the past encountered professors who take a very proprietary approach. They are extremely reluctant to share their ideas and their materials such as powerpoints and tests, unless there is a clear quid pro quo for them. I guess these professors somehow think that this approach gives them some kind of competitive advantage. It is all too easy to fall into the thinking that this kind of behaviour is the norm and preferred approach.
In contrast, at my current college, I freely share ideas, advice and materials with my colleagues, and vice-versa. Somehow, I think this collaborative approach benefits everyone: me, my colleagues, the college, and especially the students. It is far better than each of us working separately in isolation.
I freely share my thoughts and experiences through this blog. However, I admit that it is not an altogether altruistic exercise. What do I get in return? I certainly don’t make any money from this blog. This blog requires me to reflect on my approaches to teaching. It motivates me to develop and follow through on new ideas. I get feedback from other educational professionals. It provides a useful reference as a written journal. In other words, it helps me be a better educator.
Sharing is good. Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
We’ve all heard them: “My grandma died”, “I was vomiting all last night”, “My third cousin had a wedding”, “I had pink eye”, …. If I was a grandparent of a college/university student, I would be afraid for my life around exam times. Then again, the grandparents of some students seem to have the miraculous ability to reincarnate and die many times over.
Whenever a student provides an excuse for missing an exam or missing a deadline for an assignment, as a professor, I am put in a difficult situation. If a student’s excuse happens to be valid and honest, I do not want to be insensitive to the student’s challenges. I am aware of the reality that many students must cope with many stresses in their school, personal and work lives. On other hand, I do not need a sixth sense to realize that too many students fabricate excuses as a part of their MO for success in school. For those students, I want to ensure that they do not get an unfair advantage relative to the other students in the class. However, I also do not want to take on the role of Professor PI to check the veracity of students’ excuses.
She also said she was spending at least an hour every day dealing with students requesting sick notes.
What is my teaching philosophy? In the five years since I started teaching at the post-secondary level, I suspect that my teaching philosophy has evolved substantially. A couple of months ago I started on a personal reflective journey by starting a blog (reflectiveprof.com) to share my thoughts and experiences in teaching college students. I wanted to create a written chronicle of the various disparate thoughts and ideas I usually have throughout a semester. Forcing myself to put my ideas in writing on my blog for everyone to see has made me much more proactive and motivated to implement new approaches in my teaching. As well, at a more profound level, I wanted to use the blog as a tool for reflecting on who I am as an educator.
I recently completed a Teaching Perspectives Inventory (“TPI”) (teachingperspectives.com). The TPI is a reflective online tool for assessing an educator’s approach to teaching based on D.D. Pratt’s five teaching perspectives: Transmission, Apprenticeship, Developmental, Nurturing and Social Reform.
My TPI results indicate that my dominant perspectives are, equally, Transmission and Developmental. This is consistent with how I see myself as an educator. With regard to Transmission, I consider myself to be an expert in my field with an ability to communicate complex concepts in understandable and relatable ways. From the Developmental perspective, I challenge my students to develop their abilities to problem solve and to critically analyze situations.
Overarching my teaching philosophy is my personal philosophy of “kaizen”. Kaizen refers to a philosophy of continuous improvement. The degree of each improvement may range from incremental to substantial. Every semester, I re-evaluate how I teach a course with a view towards improving how knowledge is explained to my students (i.e. the Transmission perspective) and how I can better engage my students to develop their problem-solving and analytical skills (i.e. the Developmental perspective).
– Bringing real and current examples and issues into the classroom. In the aftermath of the US financial collapse, I brought in a guest speaker to help my students make sense of what happened. Most recently, for my online course, I created case problem discussions on Charter of Rights and Freedoms issues arising from the proposed Quebec Charter of Values and defamation tort issues related to the news stories on the Rob Ford crack cocaine video.
– Improving powerpoints by presenting information more concisely, and by using animations to graphically explain concepts. The latter is especially helpful for more visually-oriented learners.
– Using storytelling to illustrate abstract concepts.
– Providing lecture videos in the form of narrated and animated powerpoints. I have received very positive feedback from my students about my videos, especially from students whose first language is not English.
– For my face-to-face classes, I create a course website that is as useful and easy to use as a website for an online course.
– Creating crossword puzzles as interesting review exercises.
– In a face-to-face course, I incorporated weekly online discussions of case problems. While we still have in-class discussions, the online discussions always involve many more students and have a higher quality of interaction since students’ thoughts must be put into written form. Students learn by preparing their posts and also by reading what other students have written. I also provide my students with detailed written feedback.
– I recently experimented with a “flipped classroom” approach which required my students to learn the course material on their own before coming class by watching lecture videos and to apply that material in class by working through case problems. Under this approach, I noticed that my engagement with my students became more interactive and more personalized.
– To facilitate better classroom discussions, I have used various online tools such as Socrative (socrative.com), Today’s Meet (todaysmeet.com) and Twitter.
My overall teaching goal is to reach and develop as many students as possible by continually improving how I teach. In so doing, I recognize the different learning styles and needs of my students.
Today, I heard Malala Yousafzai speak. She was being interviewed on The Current (CBC Radio One). To listen to Malala is to be inspired. I am awestruck by her courage, her humanity and her force of conviction. It is no wonder that the Taliban were so afraid of this teenager that they tried to silence her with bullets. She said in the interview, ““They wanted to silence one Malala, but instead now thousands and millions of Malalas are speaking.” She has indeed given a voice to millions of girls deprived of basic education. Malala is a role model not just for all girls, but for us all. | 2019-04-18T21:16:48Z | https://reflectiveprof.com/page/3/ |
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Man has won out against the machine in a two week tournament that saw some of the world’s best poker professionals take on artificial intelligence at Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold’em.
Nearly 20 years ago, IBM’s famous chess computer, Deep Blue, marked the rise of the computer when it beat Russian chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov, but it appears computers can’t yet win all games, despite the growth in processing power over the last two decades.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University developed their own artificial intelligence software, dubbed Claudico, to compete in a 80,000-hand poker tournament against players such as Jason Les, Bjorn Li, Dong Kim and Doug Polk in a battle for a $100,000 (£63,600) purse at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The tournament pitted the poker players’ experience and human creativity against a machine that can process millions of moves and probabilities per second, and raised an interesting question about how a player’s ability to read their opponent’s “tells” and strategies affects the outcome of a game.
Claudico’s unorthodox gameplay may be like “playing a Martian” for the poker players as the machine performs “real-time reasoning while playing a hand and improves its strategy during the match by continuously computing,” Sundholm explained to CMU News.
Another edge the computer holds over its flesh and blood competition is its inability to experience fatigue or lose its concentration on the game. The two-week tournament required each player to go through 1,500 games a day with only one day of rest. An all-night poker game can be enough to exhaust most players, so going against an opponent that never gets tired and never needs to take a break can intimidate even the most die-hard poker fans.
However, this does not appear to have phased the players, who won a very slim victory over the machine.
After over a total of 80,000 hands and $170 million (£108m) of virtual currency being bet, the humans were up $732,713 (£465,698). Li finished in first place up $529,033 (£336,243), while Polk finished up with $213,671 (£135,805) and Kim with $70,491 (£44802). Les was the only player who lost to Claudico, dropping $80,482 (£51,156) worth of virtual chips.
The close results show that “poker is now a benchmark for artificial intelligence research, just as chess once was”, and the technology has a wide array of applications argues Sandholm.
“It’s a game of exceeding complexity that requires a machine to make decisions based on incomplete and often misleading information, thanks to bluffing, slow play and other decoys. And to win, the machine has to out-smart its human opponents.
Whilst Claudico or its successors may soon be beating even the best human opponents, poker remains popular with people both online and offline. Despite its popularity dwindling slightly since its boom in the early 2000s, when the spectacular growth of online poker brought the card game into the public eye, thanks in part to the film Rounders as well as a number of amateur-turned-pro players like Chris Moneymaker, the number of people playing the game remains high. This is evident on Betfair’s poker site, where nearly 12,000 users are playing within the tournament section alone, and although none of their matches will be as seemingly endless as the one against Claudico, it’s easy to imagine that some of them would relish the opportunity to take on the world’s most complex AI machine. | 2019-04-18T17:31:52Z | https://descrier.co.uk/technology/man-beats-machine-in-brains-vs-ai-poker-tournament/ |
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