Weird History The Shortest Wars in History

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Sources: Listverse, Oddee, Military History Now, World History Timeline

Anglo-Zanzibar War: 46 Minutes

Anglo-Zanzibar War: 46 Minutes is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Shortest Wars in History
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Taking place between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896, the Anglo-Zanzibar War clocked in at anywhere between 38 and 46 minutes. The war broke out after Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini, who had willingly cooperated with the British colonial administration in the tiny island of Zanzibar, died on August 25, and his nationalist nephew, Khalid bin Bargash, seized power. The British delivered an ultimatum ordering Bargash to abdicate. Bargash refused and ordered his troops to fortify the Royal Palace.

Britain would have none of this nonsense, and assembled a fleet, along with landing Marines outside the palace. The Royal Navy ships opened fire on the palace at 9 am, the moment the ultimatum ran out. Zanzibar suffered 500 casualties and surrendered after less than an hour. One British sailor suffered a minor injury.

2008 invasion of Anjouan: Two Days

2008 invasion of Anjouan is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list The Shortest Wars in History
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Fought between the government of the island of Coromos and a small breakaway republic on the island of Anjouan in March 2008, the Invasion saw Cormoros and African Union troops fight a band of about 500 rebels on the autonomous island measuring about 160 square miles.

Three rebel troops were killed before their leader, Mohamed Bacar, escaped via speedboat, and the fighting ended soon after.

Kuwait-Iraq War: Two Days

Kuwait-Iraq War: Two Days is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list The Shortest Wars in History
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The inciting incident behind the Gulf War, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait lasted only two days in August 1990. Iraqi troops, battle hardened and well-equipped from years of war against Iran, crossed the border in the middle of the night, destroyed most of Kuwait’s small army and air force, sacked Kuwait City, and drove the Emir into hiding.

After the fighting ended, Iraqi troops burned 600 oil wells and mercilessly looted the capitol. Even with their technical inferiority, Kuwait managed to destroy over 100 Iraqi vehicles and shot down close to 40 aircraft.

1961 Indian Annexation of Goa: Two Days

1961 Indian annexation of Goa is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list The Shortest Wars in History
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The 1961 Indian annexation of Goa was a brief war fought between India and Portugal over the exclaves of Goa, Daman and Diu, all held by Portugal as remnants of colonial power grabs. The three exclaves held over 600,000 citizens, most of whom identified as Indian and were Hindu. India assembled a massive force to take them back, and launched a coordinated air, sea, and land attack on December 18, 1961.

A day later, Goa was mostly in Indian hands, and despite Portuguese warnings that they’d rather burn the entire exclave than give it up, the general in command of the Portuguese forces surrendered. Casualties were about 50 killed and 100 wounded in total.


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Ways to Framework and Compose an Exposition - The Intro

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This is my initial from a couple of write-ups I am contacting provide simple, very easy to observe composition writing tips to international students. I really run my very own site so I’m properly certified to give you a number of the primary essay writing suggestions I would certainly claim would certainly boost a lot of the essays we have actually submitted.
Today I’m going to talk a bit about essay design for amateurs - very most English essays, coming from GCSE to degree amount, follow a rather identical style for best end results. This will usually be composed of your intro, observed by a rundown of the different disagreements, analysis from each and eventually a conclusion demonstrating the author’s point of view having actually thought about every thing earlier. So just what perform our team need to have to see in each of these sections?
Our company’ll start with the overview in write-up 1, which is widely important regardless of certainly not gaining the most results maybe; this is because the intro is actually where you must present how you have actually recognized the question as well as how you will definitely set about answering it. A really good overview will definitely certainly not waffle on for a whole webpage highlighting all your know-how of the topic as well as it will certainly certainly not merely redo the question. The absolute best essays are generally developed around a concept which is actually after that built right into a concern - if you have actually been given a question presently might must determine exactly what its own really telling you to perform so you can easily answer the question very most successfully.
A good intro is going to:
- Start by renewing the main beliefs within the concern - if the inquiry inquires ‘exactly what is one of the most significant factor?’ this could suggest specifying that there are a variety of elements which we need to look at - eg. ‘The break out of battle in 1914, as well as the main reasons for it, is a widely controversial subject matter between historians as well as other analyses continually deliver different verdicts.’

- After that consist of an explanation from just what the inquiry you are answering is actually concentrating after - this means identifying the concern words and analyzing them. For instance if that is a ‘to what extent …’ inquiry, you will certainly be reviewing the significance of one element to the value from an amount of others. Eg - ‘This essay will certainly try to recognize and study the different aspects, with the aim to contrast the value of each prior to getting to a verdict.’
- Right now explain a number of the different feasible arguments whist fleshing all of them out a little bit of with some history expertise - for instance ‘Other historians proponent as well as different choosing variables for the outbreak of war; the murder from the Arc Battle each other for instance was actually one a short-term pinnacle in a progression from activities; this essay will definitely evaluate the total significance from this, and the various other primary aspects, in bring about war. In the verdict I target to reach my own verdict as to which aspects stand apart as being most important. click here
- You might also quickly evaluate the other standard viewpoints to reveal your knowledge of how the inquiry has been actually answered by others. Relying on the historical instruction from the author; the sources at their fingertip and even hiddening bias, chroniclers typically fall under several other camps on the target.’
Overall my overview could read:’ The reasons from the break out of battle in 1914 are an extremely debated topic in between historians along with different historic analyses constantly delivering different closures. Different chroniclers encourage other making a decision elements for the break out from battle; the killing of the Arch Fight it out for instance was a short phrase end result of a sequence of celebrations and is actually said by many as the primary catalyst, others suggest this was merely the all-natural advancement for long condition variables to meet.
Notification that making use of the personal pronoun ‘I’ is actually merely made use of rarely and also the introduction maintained quick and also simple. All you wish to do is recognize just what the concern is inquiring and describe exactly what you are going to do to answer this - mixing this along with a dropping from understanding of the debates or even topic expertise and also you will certainly possess a great position aspect for the remainder of the essay. If you perform actually have a debate that deserves stating this also so the audience will definitely know precisely just what you presume and also hopefully as soon as you present your reasoning be persuaded.
Many thanks for reading as well as if you have actually anything else you yearn for aid with please explore my internet site; next time I will definitely be actually talking about ways to analyze each disagreement effectively.

Today I am actually going to talk a little about essay framework for novices - most English essays, from GCSE to degree amount, follow a rather similar layout for absolute best outcomes. ‘The break out from battle in 1914, and the reasons for it, is actually a hugely questionable subject matter between chroniclers as well as different studies regularly deliver various final thoughts.’
Eg - ‘This essay will certainly try to determine as well as analyze the various aspects, along with the aim to review the significance of each just before reaching out to a conclusion.’
General my intro could check out:’ The causes from the episode of battle in 1914 are actually a hugely disputed subject matter in between chroniclers with various historical evaluations continually delivering different conclusions. Various historians recommend other making a decision aspects for the break out from war; the assassination from the Arch Duke for example was actually a short phrase pinnacle of a sequence of events and is actually suggested through many as the significant catalyst, others suggest this was just the natural progression for long condition aspects to reach.


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Name: Gurhai [gur-HIGH]
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Top Myths about the Overrides

MYTH 1: If I don’t use the library or the transfer station, or the COA, it won’t hurt me if they close.
THE FACTS: Libraries level the playing field. We have a growing income inequity in America; the gap between the richest and poorest citizens gets wider every year. By making all its resources equally available to all members of its community, regardless of income, class, or other factors, the library levels the playing field. This strengthens the whole community and improves living conditions for us all. The closing of the Transfer Station could increase the likelihood of roadside dumping and reduce the opportunities for recycling.  The Town would risk environmental degradation.  The loss of streetlights could allow crime to increase and the reduction in town employees would most likely result in shorter hours of operation and longer waits for town services.  Seniors who rely on the Council on Aging would have to find help, if available, elsewhere.
MYTH 2: I can just use the Athol Library.
THE FACTS: Orange residents would not be able to borrow materials from Athol and most other area libraries.  According to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, when a town’s public library is not certified because of closing or not meeting standards:
1. The noncertified municipality and its library will not receive any State Aid to Public Libraries monies (M.G.L. c.78, s.19A).
2. Libraries in certified municipalities are not required to lend library materials to the library in the noncertified municipality (605 CMR 4.01 (6a)).
3. Libraries in certified municipalities are not required to extend reciprocal library services, beyond in-library use of their materials, to residents of the noncertified municipality (605 CMR 4.01 (6b)).
4. The library will not receive support through the Small Libraries in Networks Program.
5. The municipality is not eligible to apply for funds under the Public Library Construction Program (605 CMR 6.05 (1)(c)), and any existing grant will be invalidated because the library must maintain eligibility throughout the construction process in order to receive grant funds (605 CMR 6.09(7)(b)).
6. The library will not be eligible to apply for grants under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program.

MYTH 3: The override is irreversible.
THE FACTS: It's true that unlike a debt exclusion, the override won't automatically end.  However it is not true that the increase once passed must continue forever.  If the override passes, there are a couple of ways it would be reversible; First, the town meeting could vote not to appropriate the money, either this year or in a future year. There is no requirement that Town Meeting pass a budget that raises taxes up to the limit of what is authorized by the override. Also, there is a process called an underride, where in future years town citizens could vote in a special election to reverse the override in a similar way to which it was passed. Details below from the Mass general laws:
In a city or town, if a majority of the local appropriating authority or the people by local initiative procedure shall so require, there shall be a special election called in order to submit a question to the voters as to whether said city or town should be required to assess taxes by a specified amount below that amount allowed pursuant to this section. The question submitted to the voters shall be worded as follows:--
  "Shall the (city/town) of _____ be required to reduce the amount of real estate and personal property taxes to be assessed for the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and _____ by an amount equal to $_____?
YES_____ NO_____''.
  If a majority of the persons voting on the question shall vote "yes'', the limit on total taxes assessed shall be decreased to the percentage so voted for that fiscal year.

MYTH 4: People can just use Mahar’s library.
THE FACTS:  Mahar’s library is designed to support the education of Mahar’s students.  They do not have materials for the general public.  Their library is not accessible to the public during school hours due to security concerns, and the library is not staffed other times.  They have neither the materials nor the staff to serve non-Mahar younger children, families, or senior citizens.

MYTH 5: The Town could use the override money for something else
THE FACTS: For Fiscal Year 2011, the Town could only collect and appropriate the revenues authorized by the override for the purpose stated in the election ballot question.  Other uses would not be permitted by law.

MYTH 6: The cost of the override would be greater than what I would have to pay for alternative services.
THE FACTS: The cost of private trash hauling equals or exceeds the average cost of all 4 override questions. It costs less to vote yes!  Indirect environmental costs would occur, but are difficult to quantify.  The most recent return on investment figures show that the Orange Public Libraries deliver $1.3 million is services to the Town per year.  Per capita, that is roughly $167 return on an proposed investment of $33.62.  That's less than the cost of two hardback books!

MYTH 7:  The library would get a big budget increase as a result of the override.
THE FACTS: The 2009 Annual Town Meeting approved a library budget of slightly over $280,000 for Fiscal Year 2010.  This was reduced at a subsequent Special Town Meeting when the Town's financial crisis became more apparent.  The amount on the override question id $262,230.00.  This would represent a 7% reduction from our original 2010 budget, and less than a 2% increase over  the current reduced budget.  The amount requested is also the bare minimum required to meet state requirements to receive state certification and state aid.

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Difference between research paper and investigatory project

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similar experiments, answers to your background research questions. If you can obtain this information, your project will be more successful. Credit Where Credit Is Due! Every author feels the same way. Each card contains the source at the top, with key points listed or"d underneath.

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Work by three to five authors (subsequent times) (Kernis., 1993 work by six or more author (Harris. Often, the statement of the problem will also serve as the basis for the introductory section of your final proposal, directing your readers attention quickly to the issues that your proposed project will address and providing the reader with a concise statement of the proposed. Can you use a procedure for your science fair project that is similar to an experiment that has been done before? Step 4 statement 3 Using specific details, show how the situation in step 2 contains little promise of improvement unless something is done. In the latter case the professor provides you a problem to resolve or a question to examine and sets the requirements for the paper. This will build the reality or the situation as it is and establish a gap between what ought to be and what. It should be of interest to the researcher and suit his/her skills, time, and resources. When you find information in a book, on the Internet, or from some other source, you must give the author of that information credit in a citation. The short answer is that the research paper is a report summarizing the answers to the research questions you generated in your background research plan. Science fair judges like to see that you understand why your experiment turns out the way it does. Usually it is a task given to the students at the end of a term and accounts towards the final grade in the subject, sometimes it can even constitute as the only component of the final grade.

A research problem may be defined as an area of concern, a gap in the existing knowledge, or a deviation in the norm or standard that points to the need for further understanding and investigation. In any way it cannot be longer than one sentence and needs to be formed with clarity. For a science fair project, a reference citation (also known as author-date citation) is an accepted way to reference information you copy.


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Biographies definition

Whatever its form or time, however, autobiography has helped define a nation’s citizens and political ambitions. Biographia was not in classical greek (bios alone was the word for it), though it is attested in later greek from etymology dictionary, © 2010 douglas phy in culture phy definitionthe story of someone's life.

Biography description

John foxe's actes and monuments (1563), better known as foxe's book of martyrs, was essentially the first dictionary of the biography in europe, followed by thomas fuller's the history of the worthies of england (1662), with a distinct focus on public ntial in shaping popular conceptions of pirates, a general history of the pyrates (1724), by charles johnson, is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates. Itself an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography, it has been claimed to be the greatest biography written in the english language.

This is a fine example of a e #5: why this world: a biography of clarice lispector (by benjamin moser). All those readers who are going to read her myriad of works for the first time would find this biography interesting, and her life as beautiful and tragic, yet on of function of writing biographies is to provide details regarding the life of a person or a thing in an entertaining but informative manner.

One significant secular example of a biography from this period is the life of charlemagne by his courtier medieval islamic civilization (c. Foxe's the book of martyrs, was one of the earliest english-language the late middle ages, biographies became less church-oriented in europe as biographies of kings, knights, and tyrants began to appear.

Example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'biography. Finally, somewhat analogous to the novel as biography (for example, graves’s i, claudius) is the autobiography thinly disguised as, or transformed into, the novel.

Though calling herself, in abject humility, “the creature,” kempe knew, and has effectively transmitted the proof, that she was a remarkable first full-scale formal autobiography was written a generation later by a celebrated humanist publicist of the age, enea silvio piccolomini, after he was elevated to the papacy, in 1458, as pius ii—the result of an election that he recounts with astonishing frankness spiced with malice. However, in the second act of this biography, the author shows that the hero was badly assaulted and ridiculed by a rowdy mob called critics, who are expelled from the conventional theater.

The wikipedia policy on biographies of living persons, see wikipedia:biographies of living volume of a 1727 edition of plutarch's lives of the noble greeks and romans printed by jacob tonson. Many of the authorities on which the biographies of xavier have been based are untrustworthy, notably the peregrinacam of 's other known work was a series of biographies of eastern saints, compiled about of book types or would you define biographies?

Once began a review of george eliot's biography, but left it of the says our author about "biography, autobiography, and history? It is further divided into five categories:This is a more focused writing than an autobiography or a biography.

Reading matter ranged from political biographies to thrillers, she noted, and there were sailing magazines squashed in too. The critical biography aims at evaluating the works as well as unfolding the life of its subject, either by interweaving the life in its consideration of the works or else by devoting separate chapters to the works.

Propose to continue this biography, and include the whole in book 's biography of bach is the only authority for this has divided his biography into three parts, entitled—‘faith, hope, charity. This is one of moser’s biographies, which comes a little closer to finding her true nuances.

Among the most highly regarded examples of this genre are, in the guise of autobiography, robert graves’s books on the roman emperor claudius, i, claudius and claudius the god and his wife messalina; mary renault’s the king must die on the legendary hero theseus; and marguerite yourcenar’s memoirs of hadrian. Your knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the ibe to america's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Sociological" biographies conceived of their subjects' actions as the result of the environment, and tended to downplay individuality. Excluding early quasi-biographical materials about religious or political figures, the short biography first appeared in china at about the end of the 2nd century bce, and two centuries later it was a fully developed literary form in the roman empire.

Click on the icon to tell us what you her will, she requested no biography of her should be written and none was attempted until 90 years after her ured as a series of fragments, the book varies in tone from straight journalism to expressionism and poetic lyricism and in genre from short story to aphorism to biography is currently being piece provides a short biography about the author with author contact details should further exploration of a topic be required. Cathy kelly just between us (2002)he was only too happy to provide what i asked for: thumbnail biographies of the three who were coming to see us today.

In this work famous greeks are paired with famous romans, for example the orators demosthenes and cicero, or the generals alexander the great and julius caesar; some fifty biographies from the work survive. Islamic literature, from the 10th century, produced short “typed” biographies based on occupation—saints, scholars, and the like—or on arbitrarily chosen personal characteristics.

A narrative that recounts the unique sequence of events that made the person who she of drugs and alcohol, insanity, crime, violence, and in general any societal sin, often resulting in an early death are typical elements of the biography of a "pote maudit". The works of frank harris (oscar wilde, 1916) and hesketh pearson (tom paine, friend of mankind, 1937; beerbohm tree, 1956) demonstrate this kind of biographical nalized biographythe books in this fifth category belong to biographical literature only by courtesy.


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United States President, Barack Obama, will nominate Federal Reserve Vice-Chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the U.S central bank on Wednesday, according to a White House official.

If confirmed by the U.S Senate, Ms Yellen would replace Ben Bernanke, who has held the post for eight years.

BBC reports that Ms Yellen and Mr. Bernanke are due to appear with the president on Wednesday.

Ms Yellen, like Mr. Bernanke, is seen as a “dove,” meaning she prefers to prioritise boosting employment by keeping rates low rather than worrying about inflation.

One senior U.S senator, Democrat Charles Schumer, said Ms Yellen had the backing of politicians and would win Senate confirmation “by a wide margin.”

The chairman of the U.S Senate Banking Committee, Tim Johnson, said she had “a depth of experience that is second to none.”


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Mexico: 3 police officers shot dead while eating at market

Guerrero state prosecutors said Friday in a statement that the officers were eating at the market in the city of Chilapa when they were gunned down by unknown attackers bearing high-caliber firearms.

The wounded civilians were hospitalized in emergency wards.

Guerrero has become one of Mexico's deadliest states, wracked by turf battles between rival drug gangs.


Some very good news! – by Jeff Foster

1. You don’t need all the answers right now. The true guru is within.

2. There is nothing wrong with you, and there never was. No matter what they say.

Friend, from the very beginning, you were not broken.

You were not born into sin. You were not destined for the spiritual garbage heap. There was never anything fundamentally missing from your life.

You just thought that there was. Others tried to convince you that you were not good enough, because they too felt not good enough. In your innocence, and with no evidence to the contrary, you believed them. So you spent all those years trying to fix, purify and perfect yourself. You sought power, wealth, fame and even enlightenment to prove your worth as a ‘me’. You compared yourself to other versions of ‘me’, and always felt inferior or superior, and it all became so exhausting, trying to reach those unreachable goals, trying to live up to some image that you didn’t even fully believe in anyway, and you longed for the deep rest of yourself.

But you were always perfect, you see, from the very beginning. Perfect in your total imperfection. Your imperfections, your quirks, your flaws, your weirdnesses, your unique and irreplaceable flavours, were what made you so loveable, so human, so real, so relatable. Even in your imperfection, you were always a perfect expression of life, a beloved child of the universe, a complete work of art, unique in all the world and deserving of all the riches of life.

“Forget your perfect offering”, Leonard Cohen sings. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

3. Enlightenment is not a destination. And it’s not personal.

There is no fixed path to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not a goal, the resting place at the end of a long journey -that’s the mind’s version of enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the lighting up of where you are right now.

This is very good news. It means that nobody is the authority on your path – no teacher, no guru, no religious leader. It means that nobody can tell you the right ‘way’ for you. It means that you cannot go wrong, even if you think you’ve gone wrong. It means that nothing that happens can ever lead you off the path, for the path is whatever happens, without exception. Nothing can take you away from the miracle of life, or bring you closer to it for that matter, since the miracle is all around, already shining brightly, as every thought, sensation, image, feeling, smell, sound, and as the deeper miracle of the one who is aware of all of this.

Be the awareness, shining on the moment, whatever its contents. Doubt, fear, sadness, anger, intense confusion – maybe, just maybe, these are neither enemies nor blocks to enlightenment, but expressions of a deeper intelligence, the same incomprehensibly vast and awake intelligence that gives birth to stars and moves the ocean tides and sends each and every living thing off on its paradoxical journey towards its own being.

Come out of the story of time and space and progress towards a future goal, and trust a sacred moment. Take any moment. Any moment at all. This moment. For any moment is the access point.

There are never any blocks – only access points.

You are not some separate entity on a long journey towards a future completion.

You are pure poetry.

4. Your life cannot go wrong. Even when it seems to go wrong.

In reality, your world is set up so that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you – for your awakening, for your growth, for your inspiration, for your exploration – even if you forget that, or sometimes cannot see it, or sometimes fall into distraction and despair.

Everything is a gift on this unbreakable path that you call your life – the laughter, the tears, the times of great sorrow, the experiences of profound loss, the pain, the confusion, the times you believe you’ll never make it, even the overwhelming heartbreak of love – even if you forget that sometimes, or cannot see that sometimes, or lose faith absolutely in the entire show sometimes.

But even the loss of faith in the show is part of the show, and even the scene where ‘something goes wrong’ is not indicative of the show going wrong, and so you are always exactly where you need to be, believe it or not, even if you are not.

You are life itself!

With love, Jeff Foster.


Julieta Aranda (New York/Berlin): Exercises on Desire and ‘Exotic Matter’, with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (director Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and Miguel Alcubierre (director Nuclear Sciences Institute for UNAM, Mexico City).

A new exercise of desire

In physics, ‘exotic matter’ is a term used to describe conditions and materials that are difficult to produce, and that have very unusual (exotic) properties once they are produced. No one knows for certain if exotic matter really exists. Currently, it is only a mathematical possibility.

For Aranda, ‘exotic matter’ sets the stage for a new definition of materiality and of material relationships to the world, particularly interesting at this point, where things appear to be uncomfortably straddled between real and virtual versions of themselves.

Julieta Aranda tries to understand the nature of ‘exotic matter,’ by way of transhistorical apples – objects that both define us as beings capable of acquiring knowledge and that represent our material state: bound to the world. An apple to embody the desire to know, and also as the desire to move and trade the acquired knowledge –in boats and planes and spaceships. An apple of discord, as the lines through which knowledge moves get territorialized and transformed into borders. An apple as a repository of energy and desire.

An apple as an object that defines us as beings capable of acquiring knowledge, and as a representation of our material state: bound to the world, attracted by the world, gripped by the world… falling into the world at a steady 9.81 m/s2.


Global Issues TED Talks

Benjamin Barber speaks on the power of mayors at TEDGlobal 2013. Photo: James Duncan Davidson

Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world In this bold talk, Benjamin Barber suggests that we should transition away from nation states towards a system of cities, where mayors rule. Why? Because, he argues, mayors are pragmatic problem solvers who are deeply involved in the issues of the cities they serve. They are “homies,” that is, people who grew up in the city. They get things done: they are responsible for fixing potholes and educating children. In contrast, Barber notes, presidents rule abstractly and distantly, governing imagined nation states from above.

Barber argues that cities are hotspots of potential for solving the challenges that face us. Most of the issues are concentrated in cities, and these governing bodies are best equipped to collaborate and address them together. Where nation states clash, cities mesh.

The 7 talks below — all from mayors who have spoken on the TED stage — put Barber’s theories into practice. Check them out:

Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
When Enrique Peñalosa was mayor of Bogota, Colombia, he radically rethought the city’s transportation balance. Why, he asks, should cars have the priority on the streets when the card majority of citizens couldn’t afford to have them? At TEDCity2.0, Peñalosa shares how he created lanes exclusively for buses, nixed the practice of parking on sidewalks, and created loads of protected bike lanes. His bold democratization of transportation was controversial, but important. “In terms of transport, an advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”

Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities
“Mayors have the political position to change people’s lives,” said Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes as he opened his inspiring talk from TED2012. He shared four commandments of running cities, which in part contributed to Rio’s successful bid for the 2016 Olympics. His accomplishments, which ranged from public health programs to improving the city’s transit system, illustrate a mayor’s unique ability to bring about change in a city.

Jaime Lerner: A song of the city
Cities hold the solution to climate change, said Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Standing on stage at TED2007, Lerner shared how he revolutionized the city’s urban transit system by “metronizing” the bus through a combination of efforts targeting mobility and sustainability. He launched the Bus Rapid Transit system in Curitiba in 1974; now, the system is implemented in 84 cities globally. Don’t miss his catchy song at the end of his talk espousing the possibility of sustainability.

Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
A small art project in Tirana, Albania seeded a renewed sense of citizenship for the city’s residents. As he shared at TEDxThessaloniki in 2012, former mayor Edi Rama took office in 2000 with a minuscule municipal budget; he nonetheless revitalized the town by adding splashes of color onto the city walls. Freshly painted façades had an incredible effect: crime dropped, the streets became safer. Citizens even started paying their taxes. This low-cost urban beautification process gave residents a sense of ownership over their city and put them back at the center of their own urban story.

Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper
How do you communicate with local officials? Write a letter, advised San Carlos, California mayor Omar Ahmad at TED2010. He found that letters presented the best opportunity for honest communication with his constituents. His experience translated into a formula for effectively communicating with politicians.

Christopher Cabaldon: A hard reboot of democracy in the city
In this inspiring talk at TEDxSacramento City2.0, West Sacramento mayor Christopher Cabaldon called for a fundamental redesign of urban democracy. Rather than adapting a slow, plodding federal model of governance, cities should create a system designed for action. The 7-time-relected-mayor proposed a digital democracy, where citizens can engage with the civic issues they care about in a medium that works for them. This system might even allow us to cross municipal borders and collectively engage in the global governance of cities.

Dale Williams: Small town big change
Motorcycle engineer and mayor Dale Williams radically reshaped the education and employment sectors of Otorohanga, a small city in northern New Zealand. Speaking at TEDxAuckland in 2013, he shared how he turned a paradoxical crisis of unemployment and low labor availability into an opportunity for the city’s young people. He designed a school-to-work program that helped support graduates in finding and keeping a local job or internship. The program has twice the retention rate as the national average, and has grown into a model copied internationally. Just as Benjamin Barber suggested, Williams illustrates how mayors are uniquely positioned to innovate solutions to local and global problems.

Note: This talk originally ran on September 20, 2013. It was updated on December 6th to include Enrique Penalosa’s talk.


Early Days of NASA: In Photos

With space tourism a growing industry and the Mars Rover’s journey to the Red Planet captivating the world, interest in space is the highest it’s been in decades. A recent exhibition in London, “For All Mankind” reveals over a hundred rare photos from NASA’s first pursuit of a successful manned moon landing, spanning from 1964 to 1983. The photos—all shot on film—offer both an intimate glimpse into the experience of the astronauts and also a broader perspective on the sheer tenacity and pioneering spirit of NASA’s cavalier beginnings.


Trading Platform

Margin Trading

At present, centralized exchanges which facilitate margin trading are mired in the traditional challenges of establishing trust, preventing fraud and enhancing transparency. The centralized exchanges have been left to handle collateral management and ensure that traders do not default. Essentially, these exchanges have opted to bypass blockchain strengths which are premised on decentralization, perhaps as a minimization risk to the protection and global anonymity. These exchanges have had a fair share of their problems.

In a centralized exchange, borrowing funds for trading require a trader to manually place a margin call which the exchange makes to the trader. Ideally, the maintenance margin helps to rebalance the margin account. CoVEX’s Margin trading platform will allow users to trade using cryptos borrowed from other traders which will be supported by collateral funds. These funds will be computed based on the borrower’s token share and portfolio. Margin traders will be allowed to open long and short positions by borrowing money which they can either buy or sell. Later on, traders will close the positions by settling the loans. Obviously, the lender receives interest from the margin trader as an incentive for lending funds while CoVEX retains a percentage for providing a platform lender.


Danes in the Midwest

Danish historian Jette Mackintosh visited in the early 1990s Elk Horn and Kimballton in Iowa to make studies for her book published in 1993. The book describes how Danish immigrants settled in the area from 1868 on-wards and how they coped in the new environment.

Here you can read an English summary of the book (PDF)


The Cave

5 July 2018 Thursday 7:37am

“You can have faith and just wait without doing anything. Um..No comment. You’re on your own on this one. Good luck!”

I tweeted that the other day. I’m thinking—that’s what those twelve boys and a coach did when they got stuck in that underground cave. But they got results anyway. They were found and are now waiting to leave that cave. So does that mean just having faith and just waiting works?

They’re waiting to leave? What are they waiting for?

The cave is still flooded. The rescuers are helping to drain the water but it’s a slow process. At the moment, the rescuers are helping the boys and the coach gain back their strength and confidence. So they can swim or dive out of the cave despite the flood. It seems the rescuers are thinking of two options: One—find another exit. Two—teach the group how to swim and dive out. But the experienced divers say that even for experienced and expert divers, the flooded cave is super dangerous. And these kids’ health and stamina are not exactly to the max at the moment. I understand the rescuers have brought in 2 weeks worth of supplies, just in case. Man, being stuck in a cave for one day will already freak me out! Poor guys. Luckily, they will also be provided with some communication cable soon, if they haven’t already. Communicating with their loved ones will definitely be a big boost for their morale. So to get back to my question—so this situation just proves that having faith and waiting works after all, yes?

Are they still waiting?

Well, technically yes.

Are they not doing anything?

No. They’re doing plenty! Especially on the rescuers’ side—which I believe has become an international affair.

So to answer your question—Yes, it may work. And no, it may not work.

I think you misunderstood my question. I’m talking about the time before they were rescued. They just waited in that cave for 9 days for someone to rescue them. They probably just had faith and prayed a lot and waited. And yet rescue showed up. Isn’t that doing nothing but have faith?

How did anyone know they were stuck in that cave?

That’s a silly question. Their families would have worried about their disappearance, of course.

So they actually let their parents know where they were going?

Most probably.

That is considered doing something, my dear. Even if they didn’t inform their parents—that is still doing something. Because their very existence as a member of a loving family is doing something. Their presence being missed in the comfort and love of a family is “doing something.” From the day you are born you are always doing something. Even before you are born you are doing something. Your soul is energy which is forever “doing something.” The energy of the soul can only be felt and not seen because it is an energy that is at a different frequency as compared to energy that is produced by your physicality—which is your body. You are never “not doing something.” You are always doing something. This “doing something” that you are doing is forever because your soul is forever.

So are you telling me that the statement “have faith and just wait” is wrong?

Nothing is ever wrong or right, my dear. That statement is not possible.

So that statement is an impossibility? That it can never be done? That no one in this world can really do such an action?

Having faith in itself is an action. Faith is a thought. Faith is a feeling. Your thoughts and your feelings are the most powerful energy in your universe. Energy in itself is “doing something.”

So what you’re saying is…Oh man, I don’t know what you’re saying! Help!

You came into this world for only one thing—and that is to help each other. When those boys and that coach decided to go into that cave, their soul already planned to get stuck even before they were born. We’ve mentioned it before—it’s called their “agenda.” Their soul’s agenda is to one day get stuck in a cave in order for the world to know who they really are. And in turn, they are giving the people of the world a chance to be who they really are.

Hence, the international coverage and the international oneness to rescue them.

Yes. So are the boys and their coach out of that cave yet?

Not yet, I think. Soon, hopefully. We’re following the updates very closely. It seems they’re in good disposition, so that helps the situation a lot.

Mindset is everything.

I know, I know. Frustration slows everything down. Love all around is better.

Much, much better.

My Access Solutions Provider

18 June 2018 Monday 10:22pm

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Try turning it around. Your provider solutions access.

Not everyone writes, my dear.

I know that. But some people don’t.

The Followers & The Challengers

12 May 2018 Saturday 3:55pm

“Dear Neale…I have been wondering about the role of personality in the mechanics of the mind and system of the soul. I observe that some people have personalities that seem to make it easier for them to operate successfully in our culture — i.e. follow rules and religious doctrine while others are challenging rules and not accepting of structures that govern and make the rules. Can you discuss the role of personality?”

This was on Neale’s website. Neale wrote an explanation but it’s sort of complicated for my kind of intellect.

What is your kind of intellect?

Um…I’m simple? I’m of a simple intellect.

No, dear. You wouldn’t have come as far as you have with just a simple intellect. The soul is simple but complex.

But I just said that Neale’s reply to the query was complicated. And now you’re saying my intellect is simple but complex. If I was also complex then I would have understood what Neale was talking about.

I said the soul is simple and complex. The soul knows no rules. I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say that rules make life complicated. Therefore the soul is simple because the soul is free. The soul is also complex because the soul knows everything. The knowing of everything is immense, to say the least. And isn’t the soul life? Isn’t life complex? Therefore the soul is also complex. Now, let me ask you – do you always know exactly what your soul is up to?

Why do you think that is so?

At first, I think I know what I’m doing because I’m thinking of the conscious purpose of what I’m doing while I’m doing whatever it is I’m doing. But later on, I’ll realise that what I was doing had a different purpose altogether. It was a subconscious or even superconscious purpose – the purpose of the soul. Does that make sense?

Read it again – what you just wrote. Does it make sense to you?

Yeah, it makes sense.

You have just created a simple explanation of something complex such as what the soul is up to. The soul is me. The soul is capable of anything. In your world, the body, mind and soul have to act as one in order for you to experience your life agenda. It is these acts which are the physical evidence or components of your personality. Your personality is actually what others observe of you. When others see you act out kindness, they will say you have a kind personality. When they see you act out gratitude, they will say you are thankful or polite. When they see that you’re a forgiving person, they will say you have a generous or tolerant personality. When they see you act out violence, they will say you have a violent personality.

Woah! That was quite a leap there. From kindness to gratitude to forgiving to generous, then bam – violent! C’mon, you gotta ease me into it, God. Maybe put in anger or resentment, or piqued in there somewhere before we jump into violence.

My apologies. But you must agree, dear one, that violence in your world does show up violently out of nowhere sometimes.

I agree. Anyway, we haven’t really discussed the real query – what’s the role of one’s personality in connection with one’s mind and soul? And why are there personalities who prefer to practice religious beliefs & doctrines as compared to those that challenge them?

Let me quote the exact words used because they are key in explaining exactly what the topic is about – which is about personality. The exact words are “some people have personalities that seem to make it easier for them to operate successfully in your culture — i.e. follow rules and religious doctrine while others are challenging rules and not accepting of structures that govern and make the rules.” Do you know of any personalities who are examples of the first group of people mentioned? Let’s call them the Easy Followers.

Never mind. It doesn’t matter. How about the other group of people? Let’s call them Challengers.

Yeah. Neale and his friends, I guess.

Are you one of Neale’s friends?

I like to think so.

He does too. So do you call yourself one of The Challengers?

Like yeah.

Have you always had a personality that is a trait of being a challenger?

Nope. I’ve only just recently become a challenger. Like about 5 years ago. That was when I realised my life purpose. Before that, I would have called myself an Easy Follower because at that time I was operating by following rules and religious doctrines.

You forgot the word “successfully” in there somewhere – operating successfully by following rules.

I don’t think so.

Fair enough. So to get back to the query: What role does personality play in being Easy Followers or in being Challengers?

I’m not sure. But I think one can already deduce by what we call each group. Which I think is not very nice of us to do so.

Do what, dear?

You know, call people names by their personalities.

What do you think the names mean?

One name may mean that the personality of the person prefers to follow rules because it’s easier – easy life. While the other is not so easy – a challenging life.

Don’t you consider yourself one of the Challengers?

Is your life challenging at the moment?

At this very moment, yes! This conversation we’re having is really tough! I’m afraid of offending someone.

You, afraid?

But tough?

I try.

Would you consider the role of your personality as being afraid and being tough when it concerns the “mechanics of the mind” and the “system of the soul”?

I suppose so. Being afraid is of the mind. Being tough is of the soul. Afraid and tough – that’s an odd personality combination, though.

Not really. Love and fear go hand in hand in your world.

For now.

Yes, dear. For now.


The story behind a song

Tonight’s blog is bought to you care of a workmate yesterday, who knowing my love of most things American, asked me if there was actually a midnight train to Georgia, as in the song? So fine, I took a look this morning, knowing there were all sorts of long distance trains on Amtrak, that there might be one, somewhere. In fact, no there isnt, and nowadays at least (and reputedly wasnt in the 70’s) there is no train direct from Los Angeles to Georgia anyway. The closest at the moment that I could find, was the overnight Silver Meteor train which calls at Rocky Mount, North Carolina at 11.50 pm, and gets to Savannah, Georgia at 6.34 in the morning. Mind, it might have left a few nights at midnight, but anyway…lol!

And no, the train from Los Angeles to New Orleans, from where you could, in theory, connect to a train to Atlanta, leaves at 9.00 pm on the nights that it runs anyway! So clearly, no is the answer.

The thing is, when you dig into these matters on the internet, you find all sorts of intriguing information. As in, in this case, that wasnt the original name of the song! It was, as I will prove shortly, originally called ‘Midnight Plane to Houston’, and yes, they have existed in the past! Not sure if there is a current one, with all the night flying regulations we have now, but back then…there was!

Seemingly, what happened was that some artists came along, who wanted to tweak the title to something different, and a new title was born! The fact that said train never existed, mere technicality lol! So yes, the next time you hear Gladys Knight, or Cissy Houston singing that song, just remember it wasnt always about a train to Georgia, but a plane to a whole different state.

Fine, you want proof? Here you go, the Country version, as sung by the songs writer, Jim Weatherley. Sorry, unsurprisingly, no live video!

Going down to San Diego

Riding on the bus

And by that, I dont mean the public transit service around the towns, and cities on both sides of the Atlantic, though its a reasonably well known fact that generally I think the public transit service in the big cities, in the US, knocks ours for 6, both in terms of prices, and generally reliability too.

But in the US, long distance travel is a whole different ball game! Yes, if you have the inclination, flying between the major cities in America isnt too much of a challenge either. But you try to get from ‘smaller point’ A, to ‘smaller point’ B, and apart from the main coastal strips, it becomes a whole different challenge.

I know, most people wanting to get from those bigger cities, well, its still cheaper, and quicker to fly between the 2 points (even with a change of flight) than it is to travel long distance by train, or by bus, but all the options are generally there.

I mentioned it at the time I visited, but do you know the extent of public transit, into Cherryvale, Kansas? For passengers, pretty much zero! Freight trains, yes, but passenger trains, sorry…

Anyway, to get to the point. Medium distance travel, for non drivers.

I’ve actually crossed America, and back, by train. Fine, the last stretch from Philadelphia, to Atlantic City came about 6 years after the rest, but I’ve done it. And yes, you dont measure the journey time in minutes, or indeed hours, more like days! I liked Amtrak, though admittedly, I havent needed to use it since that day I completed that epic trip, back in 2009.

But, when people in the US talk about taking the bus, they dont mean the service bus into the city centre, they mean riding the coach, the Greyhound bus, to be exact.

Me, despite all my trips to the US, never done that. I’ve generally been in one city, or I’ve travelled with Kate, by car. And yes, I’ve seen ‘the bus’ a few times, I must admit. But now…

I’ve told you already about a friend, who is planning to hypnotise me, if we can get together on this trip. I’m pretty certain if he gets hold of my mind, not only will I look (a bit) like Jean Harlow, I’ll think I’m her too! Just one snag, I’ll be in Albany, NY, he’s near Manchester, NH (fine, not THAT close) but I cant give too much away…about 200 miles apart.

Over here, between those 2 points (both reasonably large cities), you’d probably have a number of coaches in a day, connecting them, either directly, or with one change. Today, I looked to see how practical getting to him would be. Albany, to the connecting point, yes, fine, plenty of choices. From there, to err, near Manchester, just one! Early evening going north, very early morning coming back south. Thats it!

Why, because most people drive, of course! Except, little old me! The fare (even Thanksgiving week, so I suspect it might be more than normal, is pretty reasonable. The number of services though…

So, to visit him, be hypnotised, do my past life regression, and become Jean Harlow for a while at least, becomes a logistical challenge. Lets see, the only way to do it, go up on the Monday afternoon/evening, stay overnight, then have my mind ‘played with’ on the Tuesday. Then the first chance to come back, is Wednesday morning, at the unearthly hour of 6.40 am! And we’d to leave his town before then, to get to that point anyway!

Of course, he might turn me into Jean-bot, and I never return, but somehow…lol.

So I might at last, get to ride ‘the bus’, or I might not, we will see. But I do wish the US had a decent long distance coach service like we do over here.

The only song I could immediately think of, that mentions Greyhound buses, was this one. So sue me, its Simon and Garfunkel, so I’m biased!


Shale Lures Retailers to New, Burgeoning Markets

In the midst of the American shale oil and gas boom, a curious new trend has emerged in the retail industry. As Shelly Banjo notes in her recent Wall Street Journal article, companies such as Home Depot and Wal-Mart are opening new stores in regions that were once isolated and sparsely populated, but now are home to booming oil and gas towns with healthy appetites for retail and real estate.

Whereas intense competition from online shopping platforms is pushing down in-store traffic and new store openings across much of the U.S., these new, highly concentrated markets in states such as North Dakota, Texas and Louisiana now offer retailers a timely opportunity to expand domestically and boost their brick-and-mortar sales. In turn, these companies are largely servicing those in the energy sector, while providing significant retail job growth and new opportunities for real estate development.

To provide some additional, in-depth perspective, I asked Charles Dewhurst, partner and leader of BDO’s Natural Resources practice, and Stuart Eisenberg, partner and leader of BDO’s Real Estate practice, to weigh in on this trend and its impact across industries. Here’s what they had to say:

Charles Dewhurst: “There’s a reason we think of the oil and gas industry as being an economic powerhouse: Its growth and impact is rarely limited to the energy sector. Not only has the shale boom put money back into consumers’ pockets by creating well-paying jobs; it also has helped stabilize the price of oil and natural gas, making downstream energy more affordable for Americans and freeing up discretionary income to funnel back into the economy. It’s no surprise that those industries that rely directly on consumer dollars are benefitting.”

Stuart Eisenberg: “Local real estate markets can be significantly impacted by growth in another sector. When companies in large, influential industries, like natural resources, expand into a market, jobs are created, resources are needed and other companies follow to meet the demand. This spurs both the performance of existing property assets and new property development. The positive movement will likely not just be limited to retail spaces; the residential rental and hotel real estate sectors should also experience notable improvement.”

With shale oil and gas bringing new growth opportunities across multiple sectors, what are your thoughts on this trend’s long term impact? Let us know in the comments section below.


Restaurant Insurance

Restaurant Insurance for Risks That Can't Be Controlled

All businesses are subject to risks and exposures during the course of daily operations and restaurants face their slew of concerns from both an operational standpoint, and an economic one as well. Operational risks are associated primarily with accidents or injuries within the facility itself. Slips and falls are a common concern for both customers and employees.

Workers may injure their backs, cut fingers during food preparation, or be burned by hot liquids. Kitchens are perhaps the most common place where injuries happen, and there’s also the risk of a fire breaking out. Many operational risks associated with restaurants can be controlled through sound risk management strategies, but Restaurant Insurance will provide the necessary funds to keep the operations up and running.

Ways to reduce injuries, health risks, and other dangers

Employees need to demonstrate rigorous cleanliness and safety practices, which are the result of employee education, and should include frequent washing of hands, proper use of sharp utensils and other cooking tools, as well as having protective devices in place, such as sprinkler systems for cooking equipment. Proper maintenance is also an important consideration.

A single outbreak of food poisoning or contamination will likely be devastating to your operations, causing customers to no longer support your business. Therefore, exercising proper cleanliness and employee education are critical in order to maintain customer confidence.

Neighboring businesses can actually impact your success

The part of town where a restaurant is located can certainly have an affect on the restaurant’s reputation and value to the community. If the restaurant is located in a resort community, for example, that may serve as added incentive for people to patronize your restaurant. By the same token, if an anchor store leaves the facility, and the mall receives less traffic, this could have the opposite effect.

The restaurant industry generally continues to grow, especially in large metropolitan areas, which means increased competition. In an effort to attract new customers, many offer additional services such as entertainment and catering. Still, restaurant owners need to consider risk management practices along with maintaining adequate amounts of Restaurant Insurance.

Many risks are difficult to control, but by having a sound strategy in place and quickly dealing with the risks associated with that strategy, you can make a difference in just how successful your venture will remain, and avoid costly claims along the way.


(1797 - 1828)

The son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna, Franz Schubert was educated as a chorister of the imperial court chapel and later qualified as a schoolteacher, briefly and thereafter intermittently joining his father in the classroom. He spent his life largely in Vienna, enjoying the company of friends, but never holding any position in the musical establishment or attracting the kind of patronage that Beethoven had twenty years earlier. His final years were clouded by illness, as the result of a syphilitic infection, and he died in 1828, leaving much unfinished. His gifts had been most notably expressed in song, his talent for melody always evident in his other compositions. Schubert's compositions are generally numbered according to the Deutsch catalogue, with the letter D.

Stage Works

Schubert wrote operas, German operas or Singspiel and incidental music for the theatre. His best known compositions of this kind include the music for the unsuccessful play Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern (Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus), mounted at the Theater an der Wien in December 1823. The ballet music and entracte from Rosamunde are particularly well known.

Church Music

Among the various works Schubert wrote for church use particular mention may be made of the second of his six settings of the Mass.

Choral and Vocal Music

Schubert wrote for mixed voices, male voices and female voices, but by far the most famous of his vocal compositions are the five hundred or so songs, settings of verses ranging from Shakespeare to his friends and contemporaries. His song cycles, published in his lifetime are Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill) and Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey), while Schwanengesang (Swan-Song) was compiled by a publisher after the composer's early death. Many of these songs by Schubert are very familiar, including Der Erlkönig, the Mignon songs from Goethe and the Songs of Norma from Sir Walter Scott.

Orchestral Music

The Unfinished Symphony of Schubert was written in 1822, but no addition was made to the two movements of the work. Other symphonies of the eight more or less completed include the Great C major Symphony and the charming and classical Fifth Symphony. His various Overtures include two "in the Italian style

Chamber Music

Of Schubert's various string quartets the Quartet in A minor, with its variations on the well known Rosamunde theme and the Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden, with variations on the song of that name, are the most familiar. The Piano Quintet "Die Forelle" (The Trout) includes a movement of variations on that song, while the great C major String Quintet of 1828 is of unsurpassable beauty. The two Piano Trios and the single movement Notturno date from the same year. Schubert's Octet, for clarinet, horn, bassoon, two violins, viola, cello and double bass was written early in 1824. To the violin sonatas (sonatinas) of 1816 may be added the more ambitious Duo for violin and piano, D. 574, of the following year, and the Fantasy, D. 934, published in 1828, the year of Schubert's death. The Arpeggione Sonata was written for a newly devised and soon obselete stringed instrument, the Arpeggione. It now provides additional repertoire for the cello or viola.

Piano Music

Schubert's compositions for piano include a number of sonatas as well as the Wanderer Fantasia and two sets of Impromptus, D. 899 and D. 935. He also wrote a number of dances for piano, waltzes, Ländler and German dances. His music for piano duet includes a Divertissement à l'hongroise, marches and polonaises.

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Digital Creative Attributes Framework

[The framework, handbook and associated guidance can be found here: – a PDF of the core framework can be downloaded here

One weakness of a ‘graduate attributes’ approach for student development is that it looks lovely in strategy documents but can be difficult to respond to on a day-to-day basis, especially in digital contexts. For example, a graduate attribute that talks about students becoming ‘agile connectors’ sounds positive but how does a course leader respond to that when designing curriculum? They might have a sense of what agile connecting looks like in their discipline but add digital to the mix and it suddenly they are casting about for the latest app or platform as a placeholder for teaching practice. Unfortunately, this fuels a demand for a more ‘skills focused’ approach in which a list of this week’s popular technologies is drawn up with advice on what it can be ‘used for’. With the best will in the world this approach always puts the tech before the teaching and course leaders feel a pressure to ‘introduce technology’ to ‘keep up’.

DCAF Handbook

So, we often end up with the macro of ‘attributes’ and the micro of the tech-list. What is missing is a ‘meso’, or middle level, connecting the two. Connecting high-level aspirations through to practical activity is the principle behind the Digital Creative Attributes we have developed at the University of the Arts London. These are an extension of the Creative Attributes Framework at the UAL which lays out nine key attribute areas in three groups. The Digital Creative Attributes Framework (rather pleasingly the ‘D-CAF’) is a digital expression on the CAF, not a whole new framework. It provides a meso layer of digital practices for courses to build on or map to.

There are four significant advantages to this approach:

  1. DCAF practices are stable. Digital platforms, apps and software might change but the practices we require to thrive in the digital environment remain the same.
  2. DCAF is not discipline specific so each group can contextualise relevant practices in a manner which makes sense for them.
  3. DCAF can be used to articulate current curriculum in digital-practice terms. It’s not a list of ‘things you haven’t managed to include’ but a framework which can highlight to students the value of engaging in the curriculum in certain ways.
  4. DCAF provides a shared language which works for staff, students and the creative industries.

The last point was extremely important to me because I’ve been in too many meetings where the lack of a shared language around digital has seriously disrupted meaningful progress. Essentially, when we say the word ‘digital’ in an institutional context everyone thinks of different things and wants to set different priorities. The tech folk call for more kit, senior folk want a clear ‘vision’ and everyone else just wants some support and guidance. Saying ‘let’s talk about digital’ is the same as saying ‘let’s talk about the university’ both these topics are far too big and neither of them can be ‘solved’.

The DCAF is designed to focus these discussions around a set of practices we know the students want/need to develop. It respects the importance of disciplinary context and avoids the techno-solutionist trap.

We have released the DCAF under a Creative Commons licence to open it out to all. It gives a good insight into the digital practices which underpin creative working and as such is relevant to anyone taking a creative approach to teaching and learning.

Coalescent spaces

Designing pedagogy which coalesces digital and physical spaces

The keynote at our UAL Learning and Teaching day last week explored ‘Creative Learning Spaces’. As the images of new and co-opted spaces flashed by I started to think about how many of them would exist it it wasn’t for Wifi, laptops, tablets, smartphones and ultimately the Web.

Traditionally learning spaces would have been constructed around specific modes of knowledge transmission and proximity to knowledge. The main independent learning space being the library because it was useful to be adjacent to knowledge in the form of books.

It seemed obvious to me that the new physical environments we are designing in universities are a reflection of what the digital provides us and the way in which this has disbanded the geography of knowledge. Even so it was clear that this influence on physical spaces hadn’t been closely considered.

This comes about, I suspect, because the digital is commonly seen as a set of tools not a series of spaces or places. When I’m introducing the Visitors and Residents idea I’m careful to define ‘space’ as ‘any location where other people are’ or ‘any location where we go to be co-present with others’. It’s then clear that our motivation to go online is often very similar to our motivation to go to particular physical locations. The implications for teaching and learning are significant, especially when we take the example of students using connected devices in traditional face-to-face spaces such as the lecture theater.

It we think in terms of the digital as a set of tools then our perception on the room might look like this:

If we think of the digital as a set of spaces then it might look like this.

My view (if we exclude digital tools for a moment) is more along these lines:

This is because I tend to think in terms of presence rather than attention. As the tutor I could become preoccupied with how much attention students are paying to me or how ‘distracted’ they are by their screens. This is a very limited and unhelpful way of modeling the situation. A more interesting way of framing this is ‘where are my students?’ Just because I can see them sat in front of me doesn’t mean they are ‘in the room’. When they are looking at their screens they could be present in another space altogether.

This is where the digital/physical overlap becomes really fascinating. When we go online in Resident mode we are present in multiple concurrent spaces. We are always present in the physical world to a certain extent because we are embodied. However, we may be more present in the space on our screen than in the physical environment. This isn’t specifically a digital phenomenon, being multiply present is a human capability we are all strangely good at. How many times have you been transported into the world of the film or the novel you are gripped by? And yet when we conceptualise the digital it is often not along these lines. I suspect this is because the digital is still quite new culturally (even though it is well established technologically) so we don’t like the idea of the digital as immersive or captivating. For example, it’s acceptable to say that you ‘lost yourself’ in a book but to say that you ‘lost yourself’ in Twitter or on a website is still seen as suspicious or second rate (this is an extension of the books = good vs screens = bad problem).

A coalesced pedagogy would lead to this:

Here are a few suggested coalescent designs:

Discussing student work that has been created by students in the digital space when f2f.
A good example of this comes from our foundation course at Central St Martins in which students use our eStudio platform, Workflow, to gather research and to write reflections on their design plans. During f2f sessions student areas of Workflow are brought up on screen for discussion. Students can browse round their peers work in the platform and update their work during f2f time too. Obviously this could work well for any course in which the process of student work is captured as they develop it in an open or quasi-open online space. I think of this as a ‘soft-flip’ if we are talking in flipped classroom terms. Soft, because the f2f session is also bringing in the digital.

Online discourse while ‘in the room’
The best example of this is when a class or group join in with a live hashtag discussion. If the course has been designed in an open manner then it might be possible of the student’s themselves to promote and run a live discussion in this manner. The real advantage here is that a relatively small class can connect with a larger group which ensures a wider range of views and a good critical mass to drive discussions. The tutor can pick out salient points and convene a meta-discussion in the room in parallel with the hashtag discussion online.  This is an event driven format which can be extremely engaging but it also has the advantage of being reviewed and reflected on in a more measured fashion after the f2f session.

Collaborative, critical, knowledge construction
This is as simple as putting a Padlet up on screen and then asking students to gather relevant resources on a topic into the space. They should also be encouraged to contextualise the resources they bring in. Once the Padlet starts getting crowded a f2f discussion can be started around how best to cluster resources into  categories or sub themes. Again, the Padlet can be revisited after the session to support ongoing project work, acting as a co-constructed pool of resources or references.

Active knowledge contribution/construction
AKA a Wikipedia mini-editathon. Getting a room full of students to live edit specific Wikipedia pages to improve them or to create new pages. This is quite technical to get set-up as Wikipedia is likely to block sudden activity from a single place but Wikimedia UK are more than happy to provide support to get you started. They also have loads of good resources online to get you started on Wikipedia in an educational context.

There are just a few possible approaches that coalesce the digital and the physical around learning. For me the principle concept here is providing opportunities to be communal across the physical and the digital and to not get to hung up on the idea of collaboration. The communal is both easier to engender and potentially more engaging than the collaborative. It also allows for elegant lurking and doesn’t discount the notion of being present and engaged without ‘visible’ participation. Yes, students want access to the ‘stuff’ they need to get their courses done but unless we design communal digital spaces and coalesce the digital and the physical they will have a fractured and disconnected experience.

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Slides from the talk:

That Was an Interesting Experience

“Teaching and learning in virtual worlds is an experience.”

Phase 2 plans for our Philosophers

Stage One (framing the debate):

  2. students to post kneejerk response in blog
  3. Marianne to respond one to one
  5. second kneejerk to be posted on Moodle

Stage two (dynamic in world discussion):

  2. People read these and reflect as everyone arrives
  3. Marianne asks each student in turn to comment
  5. final statements to be sent to Dave

Stage three (reflection):

  1. Marianne to annotate final statements, and add comments

Learning from the Games Designers

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College signing: Makenzie Lukehart: PSU DuBois softball, basketball

Name: Makenzie Lukehart

High school: Glendale

Hometown: Utahville

Sport: Softball, basketball

Position: Centerfield, guard

College choice: Penn State DuBois

Other colleges considered: Clarion, Messiah

Why I picked DuBois: “They have a great PTA program, I like the small campus, and I get to continue playing both softball and basketball.”

Greatest high school achievement: Getting first-team all-state and the most hits in a season for softball and holding the record for most steals at Glendale for basketball.

How I got my start playing: “I have played basketball since I was in third grade, and I’ve played softball since I was 6 years old.”

Favorite college growing up: Florida

Other interests: Hunting, fishing, cheerleading

What playing in college means to me: “I have always wanted to be able to play sports in college, and to be able to play both of my favorite sports is a dream come true.

College major: Physical therapist assistant

Parents: Melissa and Rodger Lukehart