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Disability sucks, sometimes. On a recent Saturday, for example, I had to leave halfway through a dinner party because I'd hit the wall with mental fatigue: a long-lasting symptom of brain injury, the result of a stroke I had six years ago.
But there are upsides to disability, too.
My 19-year-old daughter began studying in Melbourne last year. I live in NSW. Recently, out of the blue, she called to say she was struggling. I told her to sit tight while I made telephone calls to her university and health practitioners. This led to appointments for her to attend over four days. I also resolved, immediately, to fly to Melbourne to be with her for these appointments and stay for the week.
Wasn't I doing what any parent would do? Well, maybe not. In my pre-stroke, work-focussed phase, I would have made sure she knew how to get to her appointments and followed up by phone, but I would have been reluctant to take extended time off for a visit.
Karen Thompson, a social worker with the Northern Brain Injury Service and a finalist in the National Disability Awards, said: "An acquired brain injury changes an individual's life in all its domains, physically, cognitively and socially. Many of my clients have said how this has changed their lives in positive ways, rather than what they've lost. Often, it's a strength that you get when faced with adversity."
Actor Michael J. Fox, diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at age 30, says in his memoir Lucky Man: "If you were to rush into this room right now and announce you had struck a deal-with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever in which the 10 years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for 10 more years as the person I was before — I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike."
What's going on?
Last year, I attended a presentation given by Dr Bronwyn Morris, a psycho-oncology researcher, at the University of Queensland's Compassion Symposium in 2015. She used the term Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) when describing the way people often thrive after a life-changing event.
Typically, she said, there is shock, disruption and distress for the survivor following a life-changing illness or injury. This leads to questions: "What's really important to me?" "Who do I want to be with?" "What work do I really want to do?" "If I can't be who I was before, what now?" When the survivor answers these questions, they gain new perspectives.
I asked Dr Morris why not all survivors flourish. The bigger the shock to the survivor, she said, the more potential there is for them to thrive. Younger people experience more shock than older people because of their sense of invincibility, and females generally thrive more than males. Those individuals with an open, positive coping style do the best.
And while disability can close 'old doors', it can also open new ones. I wouldn't be a writer now –something I really enjoy — if I'd been able to continue in my previous occupation as a clinical psychologist.
PTG does not prevent the restrictions, challenges and distress that living with a disability can bring, but disability does encourage acceptance, patience and gratitude.
Life seems more precious to me now, more in-the-moment, with simple pleasures trumping elaborate ones. But it took two years after my stroke before I started to see an upside. The emotional pain of those dark years isn't something I wish to experience again, but the payoff is this: I like the person I am now better than the one I was before.
My daughter's appointments went well, she's back on track, and I feel reassured. By spending time with her, I was able to help with other needs, ones she'd failed to mention. We enjoyed hanging out together. On our one free day, she chose to go to Melbourne Zoo. I delighted when she asked me to take photographs of her straddling a giant statue of a yellow-striped Corroboree Frog and then crawling into a child-sized burrow to cuddle the sculpture of a wombat — my little girl still there in her woman's body.
It was a real father-daughter moment — you just had to be there.
This post originally appeared on 05/02/2016 on huffingtonpost.com.au
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Well, it long enough, but we finally have a final tally of money raised for the MACC Fund during our Mustache March campaign. Drum roll, please...
$5,964! was raised by our mustache growers and during our chili cook-off where we took donations during the event. Thanks once again to everyone involved.
april 15th
Sorry for the silence lately, but we've been busy collecting and tallying pledge totals and cleaning up after our chili cook-off. In the meantime, be sure to check out the gallery today. We've had a bit of fun with photoshop around the office.
april 1st
Wow, what a turn-out! We had a great time last night at our mustache judging event and chili cook-off. A rough donation tally puts us well over $5,000 raised for the MACC fund. We thank everyone that had a part to play in this fundraiser - the gowers, chili chefs, organizers, our sponsors, clean-up crew, local media, the web community, and all of the attendees.
Please check out the winners gallery posted earlier today. Also, stay tuned for event photos and a final grand tally. Thanks again!
march 31st
Well, today is the day of the judging ceremony and chili cook-off. We're happy to report that we've already raised more that $4,000 for our charity. We expect to add to that toal during the event this afternoon. We've update the gallery with the final before & after photos. Be sure to check them out.
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We just received notice that Mustache March will be featured in a local news spot. TMJ4's Carole Meekins will be interviewing us today for her ongoing "Positively Milwaukee" news segement. Expected air date is March 31st during their 6PM news program.
Also, we've added another update to the gallery featuring some... interesting music, and added a few more links to the site.
march 21st
We've added some links to some event sponsors, and we've added more information about the chili cook-off as well.
march 14th
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the day. Participants are required to be sporting a mustache tomorrow according to the official rules. Please stay tuned for a large gallery update tomorrow as the primordial mustaches take form.
Also, there have been more updates in the gallery and links section of the site.
march 9th
We've added an event page to the site that provides additional details about the mustache juding ceremony and chili cook-off. Please watch this page as details of the event unfold. Also, on Monday we updated the gallery again. Things are getting pretty hairy in there. Get it, hairy?
march 3d
A look at the early progrees of a few contenders is now avaialable in the gallery. Thanks to Betty Blexrud-Strigens for providing the inspirational soundtrack to this gallery update.
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Mustache March is in effect! There is a roster of official participants in the gallery now, and there have been some additional links added to the site.
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Well, today is the international "soft-launch" for Mustache March. The web site is now live and the rules have been officially codified by the Follicle Freedom Foundation. Expect photo coverage of the launch in the gallery sometime tomorrow. Be sure to stop back for a photographic roster of all official participants.


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Therese Borchard of Beliefnet interviewed me about the trait; her article [on Beliefnet] is titled 5 Gifts of Being Highly Sensitive and 5 Curses.
She also published it for her Huffington Post column with the title 5 Gifts of Being Highly Sensitive – which has over 100 comments.
Here are her two questions, and my responses:
1) If you had to name the top five gifts of being highly sensitive, what would they be?
One of the prominent "virtues" of high sensitivity is the richness of sensory detail that life provides.
The subtle shades of texture in clothing, and foods when cooking, the sounds of music or even traffic or people talking, fragrances and colors of nature.
All of these may be more intense for highly sensitive people.
Of course, people are not simply "sensitive" or "not sensitive" – like other qualities and traits, it's a matter of degree.
Years ago, I took a color discrimination test to work as a photographic technician, making color prints.
(But I decided I did not want to work all day in a darkroom.)
The manager said I'd scored better, with more subtle distinctions between hues in the test charts, than anyone he had evaluated.
That kind of response to color makes visual experience rich and exciting, and can help visual artists and designers be even more excellent.
The trait of high sensitivity also includes a strong tendency to be aware of nuances in meaning, and to be more cautious about taking action, and to more carefully consider options and possible outcomes.
We also tend to be more aware of our inner emotional states, which can make for richer and more profound creative work as writers, musicians, actors or other artists.
A greater response to pain, discomfort, and physical experience can mean sensitive people have the potential, at least, to take better care of their health.
Psychologist Elaine Aron, author of The Highly Sensitive Person, estimates about twenty percent of people are highly sensitive, and seventy percent of those are introverted, which is a trait that can also encourage creativity.
As examples, there are many actors who say they are shy, and director Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Academy Award, has said, "I'm kind of very shy by nature."
The star of her movie The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner (who was reportedly shy as a child) has commented that "in social situations she can be painfully shy."
High sensitivity to other people's emotions can be a powerful asset for teachers, managers, therapists and others.
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2) And, if you had to name five curses, what would they be? And how best do we overcome them or co-exist with them?
The biggest challenge in high sensitivity is probably being vulnerable to sensory or emotional overwhelm.
Taking in and processing so much information from both inner and outer worlds can be "too much" at times and result in more pain, fatigue, stress, anxiety and other reactions.
An intriguing neuroscience research study I came across that may explain some of this said people with nervous systems having decreased latent inhibition are more open to incoming stimuli. Which can be a good thing, or not so good.
Actor Amy Brenneman once commented, "I'm too sensitive to watch most of the reality shows. It's so painful for me."
That kind of pain or discomfort can mean we don't choose to experience some things that might actually be fun or enriching.
But I don't mean reality shows.
Another aspect of sensitivity can be reacting to the emotions – and perhaps thoughts – of others. Being in the vicinity of angry people, for example, can be more distressing.
As actor Scarlett Johansson once put it, "Sometimes that awareness is good, and sometimes I wish I wasn't so sensitive."
We may need to "retreat" and emotionally "refresh" ourselves at times that are not always best for our goals or personal growth.
For example, being at a professional development conference, it may not be the most helpful thing to leave a long presentation or workshop in order to recuperate from the emotional intensity of the crowd.
There can also be qualities of thinking or analyzing that lead to unhealthy perfectionism, or stressful responses to objects, people or situations that are "too much" or "wrong" for our sensitivities.
Living in a culture that devalues sensitivity and introversion as much as the U.S. means there are many pressures to be "normal" – meaning extraverted, sociable and outgoing.
Psychologist Ted Zeff, author of The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, points out that other cultures, such as Thailand, have different attitudes, with a strong appreciation of sensitive or introverted people.
Jenna Avery, a "life coach for sensitive souls," counsels people to accept or even pursue being "out of sync" with mainstream society, and be aware of other's judgments of people as too sensitive, too emotional, or too dramatic.
[Learn about the services and programs of coach Jenna Avery, especially for sensitive creators: mentoring, courses, the Writer's Circle and more, at her site JennaAvery.com.
And if we are sensitive, we may use those kinds of judgments against ourselves, and think, as Winona Ryder said she did at one time, "Maybe I'm too sensitive for this world."
[See post Elaine Aron on High Sensitivity and the Undervalued Self.]
Certainly there are extremes of emotions that are considered mood disorders, for example, and should be dealt with as a health challenge.
But "too emotional" or "too sensitive" are usually criticisms based on majority behavior and standards.
Overall, I think being highly sensitive is a trait we can embrace and use to be more creative and aware. But it demands taking care to live strategically, even outside popular values, to avoid overwhelm so we can better nurture our abilities and creative talents.
Here is a related book you might like: A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman.
[Amazon summary:] "One of the real tests of writers," notes Ackerman in this liveliest of nature books, "is how well they write about smells. If they can't describe the scent of sanctity in a church, can you trust them to describe the suburbs of the heart?"
"Ackerman passes the test, writing with ease and fluency about the five senses. Did you know that bat guano smells like stale Wheat Thins?
"That Bach's music can quell anger around the world? That the leaves that shimmer so beautifully in fall have "no adaptive purpose"? Ackerman does, and she guides us through questions of sensation with an eye for the amusingly arcane reference and just the right phrase."
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Also see article: Being Highly Sensitive and Creative – excerpts from my book. Of course, being creative is not limited to people identified as artists, or just those who are pursuing creative ventures. Both creativity and being sensitive are on a spectrum – a range of different levels.
Psychologist Elaine Aron declares, "I know ALL HSPs are creative, by definition. Many have squashed their creativity because of their low self-esteem; many more had it squashed for them, before they could ever know about. But we all have it…One of the best ways to make life meaningful for an HSP is to use that creativity."


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Yesterday, Mark Ames and Yasha Levine revealed a scoop in The Nation about Charles Koch and Nobel prize economist Friedrich Hayek's "secret love affair with Social Security." Newly discovered private correspondence between Koch and Hayek, while appalling and hypocritical on its face, reveals a far deeper problem: the secret corruption of ideas that, behind a "Green Curtain" of payoffs, feed into our politics and damage our democracy. You can read more about their investigation of the correspondence at The Nation's website, and view the original correspondence Koch sent to Hayek at eXiled online.
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For the longest time, I've been trying to come up with a word to describe the "Religionist" behaviour of saying and believing things which are blatantly untrue.
Take for example the recent changes to the law regarding rape in Pakistan. Until now, four male witnesses were needed for a charge to succeed. Otherwise, a woman complaining of rape would face the very serious charge of adultery. This brough an utterly ludicrous reaction from some Fundamentalists:
Islamist lawmakers walked out of parliament, boycotting the vote, after leader Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman told the assembly the change to the law would encourage free sex.The mind boggles.
"This is an attempt to create a free sex zone in Pakistan," he said.
Now, Mr Fazal-ur-Rehman isn't lying here, because he fervantly believes what he is saying to be true. But what does one call this extreme level of cognitive dissonance?
I recently came across a description of what is known as "Tolstoy Sydrome" which seems to fit the bill. It's named after description by that great Russian author:
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."The concept of accepting two mutually contradictory opinions (that tightening rape laws will lead to free sex) was beautifully described by George Orwell in his seminal novel 1984, in his description of Doublethink:
"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary."So, I guess, I don't need a new word. Doublethink and Tolstoy Syndrome (and good old cognative dissonence and blind ignorance) sum up the "religionist" mindset very well.
There's a great example in a recent opinion piece in the wonderfully named Texarkana Gazette, from a chap called Derrell Murphy:
"The liberal Secularists' actions [in banning school prayer, the public display of the ten commandments, et al.] have overthrown centuries of established legal precedent, based on the Bible."Whether you believe that prayer in school is bad or good, or the ten commandments should be displayed in public or not, the idea that the legal precedents involved have been "based on the Bible" is just nonsensical. It's wrong, false and untrue. But people keep believing it, because they are told it repeatedly, and because to accept that this is wrong (which as I may have mentioned it is) would demolish their entire argument.
But hey. Such is the world we live in (and, to be fair, and long lived in).


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Hey lovelies, I hope you are all having a great week ?
I wanted to share a card with you today that I created using a Simon Says Stamp set that I have had for ages, and being the weather is getting slightly warmer and I will confess to eating some Ice Cream at the weekend, This card seemed pretty perfect, and who can argue with that sentiment !
I stamped the card onto some Neenah using Simons Barely Beige Ink and then no line coloured using Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers ( Colours are shown at the bottom of this post).
Once coloured I cut the piece out and decided that as I only ever tend to make A2 cards I would make a circle card.
For the plaid I used Lawn Fawn Plaid pad and die cut using MFT Double Stitched Cirle dies, I then die cut some vellum using one of the smaller dies and heat embossed one of the sentiments from the set.
Once I had adhered everything to the card I used Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen on the Ice Cream.
I then finished off with some Doodlebug enamel dots. I really enjoyed making this card…probably because I really do like Ice cream 🙂
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October 27, 2016
In its wisdom, the National Hockey League has proclaimed the 2016-2017 season its "Centennial" and will regale us with lavish commemorative moments throughout the fall, winter, and spring with hopefully the celebration being done and the music ending by the time next summer arrives.
As is often the case in this otherwise wonderful game, the logic behind this grandiose venture is a bit off the wall. Perplexing for openers is how the deuce they came up with 2016-17 as their magic year. A little history needs to be reviewed.
If the first sign of anything approaching organization marks the official beginning, it came in 1893 when Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley himself, Queen Victoria's august royal governor of Canada, her majesty's crown jewel of a province, promulgated hockey's first bylaws. They were aimed at bringing order both to the ice and the chaotic mishmash of rowdy amateur rivalries that had sprouted from vernal Quebec to Manitoba's vast central prairies. Sweetening the pot, his Grace posted a shiny silver cup in his name as the grand prize for the national champion. A year later came the first Stanley Cup playoffs, won, naturally, by a team of roughnecks from Montreal. Essentially, that's how it all began.
Nor did it change much for the next quarter century. By 1914, the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Blueshirts (later renamed the Maple Leasfs) had been hatched. In 1915, eastern teams of the so-called NHA were challenging western teams in the PCHA for the Cup. In 1916, an American team from Portland, Oregon, joined the fray, losing in the finals to Montreal and its illustrious goalie, Georges Vezina. It's in 1917 that the term "NHL" first appears, although nothing else changes, and consisting of only four Canadian teams, it isn't much of a league. In 1919, the season is cancelled right in the middle of the playoffs by the devastating worldwide Spanish Flu epidemic.
It is not until the mid-'20s that the National Hockey League as we know it evolves. That's when competing leagues finally concede NHL dominance and surrender claims to the Cup, and it's when the NHL finally gets serious about responding to the Roaring Twenties-inspired surge of interest in the game coming from the United States.
It's your Boston Bruins who lead the charge, signing on in 1924. By 1926, the Rangers in New York, Pirates in Pittsburgh, and Blackhawks in Chicago have also been conceived. In the 1927 finals, Ottawa, winner of the Canadian Division, sweeps the Bruins, American Division champs, and Lord Stanley's silver bauble officially becomes a prize to be annually contested by all of North America. With 10 stable franchises the game is firmly established on both sides of the border. If the NHL has a true centennial year, 2026-27 would make a lot more sense.
But who needs to wait another whole decade for a good old-fashioned, year-long bender. Certainly not "the New NHL," as it likes to think of itself, with its freshly asserted international acclaim, rigorously enforced parity, revised image, rising TV ratings, and, at long last, increasingly widespread profits. Near a decade after staggering out of their latest near-ruinous labor dispute, the NHL no longer feels "minor league."
Which is not to say they've put all their problems behind them. Expansion beckons. Not everyone is impressed with the choice of Las Vegas demanded by iron-willed commissioner Gary Bettman. Deeply entrenched, Bettman just might be the sporting world's most powerful czar in terms of getting what he wants, and ruthlessly, if need be. Not that the horizon is perfectly clear. Another contract battle looms by the end of the decade and issues bugging the players pile up. Hockey stars, after all, make only roughly the money baseball scrubs command, and they're acutely mindful of that.
But all that's for another day and it's the action on the ice, not in the board room, that still matters most. So, what can we expect from the Bruins? Only five games deep in the new season it's a safe bet it will be neither more nor less than what we've been fed grimly the last two seasons: The cast changes, but not the prospects. Not yet! With luck, they'll again be touch and go for the playoffs, but don't expect more.
At least half the teams in the league are jammed in the middle of the pack, destined to grind away all season, making or missing the playoffs the last fortnight by a couple of points. It's called "parioty" and it can be equally boring and infuriating. Clearly these Bruins are one such team, maybe a textbook example. But it's the road you must travel when you're rebuilding, as the Sweeney-Neely axis is fitfully attempting. You only hope it doesn't last a decade. We've been there before. Watching the kids develop could be interesting; presuming, of course, that they do develop.
Meanwhile, the big Centennial bash rolls on all season, with or without the Bruins having a seat at the head table. A highlight will be the naming at mid-season of the top 100 NHL players of all time. There better be at least three Bruins in the top 10 – all of them defensemen. Or there will be hell to pay. Count on it!


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Lincolnshire Police renew appeal to find man missing for four months
Lincolnshire Police have renewed their appeal to find Christopher Dickinson, who has been missing for nearly four months.
Christopher, 56, was reported missing on January 2 and it is believed he could have been in the Lincoln area.
Christopher, from Mablethorpe, is about 5'7 and of slim build. Officers say it is not known what he was wearing when he went missing, but he often wears jeans and a leather jacket.
A number of enquiries have been made as part of the search to find Christopher but have so far not been successful.
Anyone with information about Christopher, or where he might be, should call 101.
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- Young offenders in 'harmful solitary confinement' in England and Wales
- Domestic violence prevention work 'should focus on offenders'
- Harry and Meghan: No other option but to step back, says duke
- Seven Kings stabbing: Fight 'part of ongoing dispute'
- New UK housing 'dominated by roads'
- BAME foster care shortage in two-thirds of English councils
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- How a boy from Vietnam became a slave on a UK cannabis farm
- Brexit: What is a level playing field?
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You can't go wrong with space kraken. I've only ever seen two in my lifetime. One was the steed of Mon*Star, the most badass 80s cartoon villain of them all.
The other is this one, made out of LEGO by builder Iain Heath, that would make people whimper "that's no moon....it's a space-faring giant squid".
And huge it would be. That looks like an Executor-class Star Destroyer it's got in its tentacles, which at 19km long would make the kraken....very large.
Release the KR-KN! [Flickr, via Geekologie]


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Robin van Persie inspired Arsenal to an impressive win over Olympiakos as the Gunners fluent football was too good for the Greeks.
How do Arsenal propose to become more ruthless? By ditching the goalpoacher of course. Obviously Eduardo is more than a fox in the box and fully showed his worth when Arsene Wenger switched to [...]


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F. Metaphysics: 1st Student Essay
Ryan Smith
Must God Be a Realist?
The more I write these little bits of ideas and reflections on questions, the more it seems to me that the answers lie in the way we use the words themselves. Most of the time I find that if we first clear up possible definitions of the terms in questions, answers make themselves manifest. This particular case is no different. When thinking about the question, I immediately had to decide what kind of god I was talking about. The only 'pantheon' style gods of Greece and Rome are useless to the conversation — they were just super people, and there's no reason for them to have a different perspective on realism/ anti-realism than us. Where the gods of Rome knew 'more things', the God of the three monotheisms knows 'all things', which is different in quality, not just amount, to human knowledge. That's the type of God I'll be dealing with here.
Now it seems to me that the quality of God most pertinent to the issue would be His omniscience. Omniscience itself is a tricky thing to pin down — what does it mean to know all things, exactly? Does it mean that for any given proposition, God knows if it is true or false? That would point to realism very strongly, simply by implying that all propositions have a set truth or falsity.
For a moment, let's consider omnipotence. It's really more complex than 'God can do anything.' Since there are quite clearly in theology things which God cannot do (such as lie or sin or be unjust) He can't literally do 'anything'. Most theologians I'm familiar with also agree that God cannot do illogical things like make square circles. A more accurate way to describe the omnipotence of God would be to say 'God has maximal power.'
Back to omniscience. Are there some similar limitations on that? Are there some things that are against God's nature, or illogical to know? Well, we can eliminate senseless 'square circle' questions, like 'God knows how many hours are in a mile.' and questions which contain an error such as 'God knows how Napoleon fared against the Mongol hordes at the Battle of Bitter Creek'. This is instructive, because in scientific fields we don't know how many of our questions will turn out to be of that nature. In other words, we can never know what questions are senseless until we have all the facts.
The crucial thing about these propositions that God doesn't know the answers to is that they don't reflect an aspect of reality, and that's why God cannot answer them. God can still very easily know the location and velocity of every particle in the universe (say) without knowing how many hours are in a mile.
However, realism is the issue here. All that nets us is the rather weak idea that 'God must be a realist if realism is true.' If there is in fact one real world with it's truths and falsehoods, then God would be a realist. However, in an anti-realist world, the Napoleon question may at some point become a pertinent question, if our historical information ever becomes quite a bit more corrupt than it is now.
Except for one catch — IF God knows the answer to a question, presumably He always knows it. If the world 'tried to be anti-realist' for a moment, and reality was subject to change based on perception, nothing would change because God's knowledge is not subject to evidence, faulty memory or other means which can be corrupted. God would always know the things He knew, and thus reality would be preserved.
It seems the closes thing to an anti-realist that God could be something like Berkeley's anti-realism — that existence is dependent on perception alone, but since God perceives everything constantly, things persist. If that were true, then God would surely be aware of it. For this reason I'll have to conclude that God need not be a realist, in other words, a limited kind of anti-realism can be true even if God exists.


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One thing we do well is cars. And here in our showroom, there's a large collection of new Q5, Q7, SQ5, A6 and Q8 models, with each giving you a unique option here at Audi Tysons Corner, serving Vienna,Herndon, McLean, Great Falls, Reston and Fairfax VA. Be it a compact car, sedan, hatchback, crossover, or SUV / fuel-efficient, stylish, powerful, or tech-oriented, we have you covered in our new Audi lineup. You can check them out for yourself in our inventory above. You can also come to us at Audi Tysons Corner with any questions, too. We'd be happy to discuss models in greater detail, along with financing or car service.
The new Audi models here come with both Limited and Powertrain warranties that give you extensive and comprehensive coverage. To discuss these in greater detail, contact us at Audi Tysons Corner. We can give you an overview, and jump in to the finer points, as well. In the end, you'll see that it's quite clear: the warranties and coverage you get are top-notch.
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Buckets Of Money: How To Retire In Comfort And Safety
- Publish Date: 2004-02-23
- Binding: Hardcover
- Author: Raymond J. Lucia
A proven way to financially prepare for retirement
Are you wondering if you can make your retirement savings last?
Concerned about inflation reducing your purchasing power?
Worried about the stock market's violent swings?
In Buckets of Money: How to Retire in Comfort and Safety, nationally recognized Certified Financial PlannerTM and radio personality Ray Lucia offers you a smart and conservative way to protect and grow your nest egg-so you can enjoy a comfortable retirement without worrying about your money running out.
Developed by Lucia over his thirty-year career as a financial planner, the Buckets of Money technique is a proven way to achieve both income and growth, while guarding against the ravages of inflation. Buckets of Money is filled with in-depth insights and practical advice that will help you assess your retirement situation, save the money you need to last your entire lifetime, and adjust your plan to good times and bad.
Regardless of your age, income, net worth, or investment experience, you need to have a solid plan for your retirement years. Buckets of Money provides you with such a plan, and shows you the best way to implement it.


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Echo Blue Hydrangea
by Nancy Medina
Class Demonstration
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
Echo Blue Hydrangeas was one of my class demonstrations in Irving, Texas. This flower is doing a little breezy dance to celebrate 4000 "likes" on my Facebook fan page today! Thanks so much to everyone who follows me there for my daily posts, and congratulations to Pam and to Janet for each winning an original oil painting tonight - I figured it was time to spread the joy around a bit!
I finished final edits on my first video, which also happens to be hydrangeas, late last night, around midnight in Tennessee, and then flew home this morning, took a nap with the puggies and headed straight to the studio. While I was gone, my garden hydrangeas had begun to bloom with all the wet weather North Texas has been having. As soon as the blossoms are a little bigger, I'll share a little garden tour with you.


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Google introduced the Trends feature in 2004. The service has become a popular research tool for web developers, students, and SEO analysts. Google Trends includes an export feature on every results page. Users can export search trends data as a CSV. This file can be easily imported into an Excel spreadsheet or a Google document. Downloading the CSV data file takes only a few minutes to complete.
Open a web browser. Visit the Google home page at Google.com.
Click the "Sign In" button in the upper-right-hand corner of the page. Enter your Google username and password, then click "Sign In."
Visit the Google Trends site at trends.google.com. Enter a search term into the search bar. Click the "Search Trends" button.
Click the plus sign at the bottom of the page next to "Export This Page to a CSV File." Choose "CSV with Relative Scaling" or "CSV with Fixed Scaling." The CSV file will begin downloading to your computer automatically. The relative scaling option scales the graph data to the average traffic amount during the entire time period you chose to examine. The fixed option scales the graph from the average traffic amount during a fixed point in time in the graph. The options affect the appearance of the graphs only and do not alter the data.
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Household Waste Recycling Centre
ContactOperated by Lancashire County Council08450 500957
AddressHousehold Waste Recycling CentreJameson RoadFleetwoodLancashireFY7 8TW
Opening times1 April to 30 September - Monday to Sunday 8am - 7pm1 Oct to 31 March - Monday 8am - 5pm
This scheme offers:Full and part full cans of paint
About the scheme
If you are a resident within this local authority and you have leftover paint from your home you can use the drop off point on site to pass your paint on to your local scheme in Wyre and Fylde. The scheme regularly collects paint from the drop off paint. The paint is then taken back to their premises where it is made available to individuals and groups in need. Unfortunately, our schemes are unable to take paint directly from individuals.
This site is open to Blackpool residents only. If you pay your Council Tax to Fylde then you will have to use their HWRC site on Saltcotes Road, Lytham – FY8 4LS. If you pay your Council Tax to Wyre then you will have to use their HWRC site on Jameson Road, Fleetwood – FY7 8TW.
Please note, if you are not a member of this local authority you will not be eligible to access the site. If there is no drop off point in your local authority area you will need to contact them for guidance on what to do with your leftover paint. You can also adapt this template letter to encourage them to consider collecting leftover paint for reuse at their sites.
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American financial planning company Ameriprise has experienced a major data leak, after information on investment portfolios worth millions of dollars was exposed on the Internet. Chris Vickery, a security expert at MacKeeper, detected this leak on 5 December using the Shodan connected device database.
Professional data on an incorrectly configured storage device
Chris Vickery reported discovering a large number of confidential documents containing data on Ameriprise and its clients: social security numbers, funds transfer authorisations and decryption keys concerning more than 350 clients and accounts worth several million dollars.
Example of a leaked client portfolio. Image credit: Chris Vickery
These documents had been stored on a network-access storage (NAS) device belonging to one of Ameriprise's financial advisers. His professional NAS was set to synchronise to his personal NAS – and neither were protected with a user ID or password.
Poor backup security practices
Ameriprise reacted by taking both storage devices offline and informing the customers concerned. The company apparently supplied one device to the employee, which would indicate an internal security issue. Both devices are now being analysed by an internal IT lab.
Ameriprise denies using external storage devices. However, security documentation saved on the device itself contained information on how to secure external hard drives. The security documents therefore appear to disprove the company's statement. Consequently, it is not yet possible to determine whether the leak is due to human error or structural issues at the company.
A list of client names and account numbers. Image credit: Zdnet.com, Chris Vickery
Data leaks – serious but increasingly frequent
This data leak shows the difficulty of securing data outside of the company's perimeter. According to a 2016 report by law firm Baker Hostetler, employee negligence is the biggest cause of data security incidents.
In addition to raising employee awareness, companies can secure their external perimeters by scanning for data leaks on the dark web and open servers. This ensures they quickly become aware of any employees or partners who fail to respect security practices.


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e-Learning Digest No 130 - Jun 15
Cloud created by:
Jim Ellis
15 June 2015
UK Conferences & Workshops
1 Jul, London, Competition and regulation in higher education. [HEFCE]
2-3 Jul, Liverpool, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Conference. [Clayton Wright]
1-3 Jul, Exeter, The Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network (ELSIN) Conference. [CONAL]
1-5 Jul, Brighton, European Conference on Education 2015. [CONAL]
1-5 Jul, Brighton, European Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2015. [CONAL]
3 Jul, Doncaster, Digital Pedagogies Conference 2015. [Will Woods]
3 Jul, London, Managing Change in Higher Education. [Clayton Wright]
6 Jul, London, Researching and Evaluating Widening Participation - Next Steps. [SRHE]
7-8 Jul, London, Flipping the Institution: Higher Education in the Post Digital Age. [ALT]
7-9 Jul, London, EVA: Electronic visualisation technologies in art, design, the sciences and more. [Clayton Wright]
7-9 Jul, Leeds, Standing Committee on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults. [Clayton Wright]
8 Jul, London, Maximising Mobile Technology and Learning in Higher Education. [Inside Government]
9-22 Jul, Online, Mobile Learning: Effectively Integrating Handheld and Wearable Technology into Learning Spaces. [EDUCAUSE]
10-12 Jul, Lancaster, Association for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference. [Clayton Wright]
13-16 Jul, Brighton, The European Conference on Arts & Humanities. [Clayton Wright]
16-17 Jul, Durham, Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship.
20-21 Jul, London, Global Studies Conference: Power and Participation in the Age of Big Data. [Clayton Wright]
20-24 Jul, Oxford, 2015 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. [Clayton Wright]
24-25 Jul, London, 2nd International Conference on eBusiness, eCommerce, eManagement, eLearning and eGovernance. [CONAL]
28 Jul - 5 Aug, Online, Looking for the Pedagogy in Blended Course Design. [EDUCAUSE]
3-6 Aug, London, ICBTS 2015 International Sciences and Technology Research Conference. [Clayton Wright]
7-9 Aug, Online, 2015 Moodle Moot Virtual Conference (MMVC). [Clayton Wright]
19-20 Aug, Online, Online DemoFest: Real People, Real Projects, Real Solutions. [eLearning Guild]
e-Learning MOOCs
22 Jun (7 wks) Human-Computer Interaction Design, UCSD (Coursera)
22 Jun (5 wks) Teaching Online: Reflections on Practice, Kirkwood Community College (Canvas.net)
22 Jun (6 wks) Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction to Student Assessment, Commonwealth Education Trust (Coursera)
1 Jul (8 wks) Big Data in Education, Columbia University (edX)
1 Jul (8 wks) Teaching With Technology and Inquiry, University of Toronto (edX)
6 Jul (5 wks) Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals, Prof Lloyd Rieber (Canvas.net)
6 Jul (5 wks) Foundations of Virtual Instruction, University of California (Coursera)
6 Jul (6 wks) Learning to Teach Online, UNSW (Coursera)
20 Jul (5 wks) Web Accessibility for Educators, Colorado Community College (Canvas.net)
9 Aug (4 wks) Teaching with Moodle: An introduction, Learn.Moodle
28 Sep (5 wks) Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom, University of California (Coursera)
MOOC News
[Audrey Watters; Stephen Downes; EdSurge; eCampus News; World Bank; Forbes]
Google announced at last month's I/O conference that it will be designing curriculum for Nanodegree courses offered by Udacity, the first being a program in Android development. The Android Nanodegree will comprise six courses and is expected to take nine to 12 months to complete. It costs $200 per month, and top 50 students will be invited for a three-day career summit at Google's headquarters.
Matt Crosslin considers whether MOOC retention problems relate to student motivation. He notes that much of education relies on motivation that is predominantly extrinsic in nature (grades, credits, fees, gold stars, etc) whereas MOOCs tend to rely much more on intrinsic motivation. In other words, "What if MOOCs are just a mirror that shows us the sociocultural problems we don't want to deal with in our system? What if the problem is not with the learners, but the way they have been programmed through the years? You can say MOOCs are failing because they lack sufficient 'student motivation', but what if it was actually the case that society has been failing for decades and MOOCs are just exposing this?"
Canadian researchers are digging beyond the headlines and analytics to discover much more about MOOC learners and learning experiences. Through a series of interviews (70 so far), three initial findings have emerged that contradict the initial hope that MOOCs can help anyone, anywhere, anytime learners. Firstly, MOOC learners possess sophisticated study skills (e.g. note taking, investigating new or unfamiliar subject matter). A significant proportion also either live flexible lives that enable them to participate, or appear to be exceptional in their abilities to create time to study. Finally, many say that learning experiences are deeply emotional, with the potential to offer not just pleasure and appreciation but occasional anxiety and embarrassment as well. They believe these findings call into question, "whether open courses, in their current form, are the democratizing forces they are sometimes depicted to be – and even whether 'educating a billion' with MOOCs is a laudable goal."
EdCast has announced a new social media platform that allows people to post mini-MOOCs, or video snippets of educational content plus short text comments. EdCasting is a less formal version of online courses, and is akin to tweeting, "with the difference being that each post is based on a video or link that can be described without being limited to 140 characters"; however, there is no 're-tweeting', meaning that content will not get diluted. The launch platform includes 10 channels ranging from entrepreneurship, architecture, robotics, technology, and health, filled with insights from over 100 "globally renowned experts and influencers".
With a population of 1.4bn, it's not surprising that the Chinese online education market increased by 700% between 2013 and 2014 (compared to 9% in the US). Part of this growth includes MOOCs, and one of the Chinese government's goals is to train 13 million K-12 teachers on education technology skills in the next five years through MOOCs.
A new survey, Leveraging MOOCs and Open Learning Assets in The Workplace, sought the opinions of 222 heads of HR, Corporate Learning and Talent Management on the benefits and barriers, and the long term impact of MOOCs on corporate learning. Key findings are that MOOCs are seen as innovative and attractive (to staff and externals) but many companies want to go further and curate a wider range of open learning assets. Barriers to developing MOOCs include budget, technical and security issues, a lack of MOOC design skills among corporate learning professionals, and resistance amongst in-house L&D professionals.
Two-thirds of Udemy's seven million students come from outside the US but the company has just raised $65 million in new funding to further expand its global presence. Udemy currently offers 30,000 courses and those taught by its top 10 instructors generated $17 million in revenues, with between 25-97% of course fees distributed back to instructors.
The CourseTalk site lets users find, rate and comment on MOOCs, and more than 74,000 user ratings for over 7,500 courses from 46 providers have now been analysed in What Reviews Divulge About Online Education. It's not big on detail but the findings on pp3-9 give a succinct overview of what users are saying. To summarise: low rated courses (1-3 stars) are confusing, boring, outdated (or wrong) and predominantly free; whereas those scoring 4-5 stars are easy to navigate and digest, fun and interactive, flexible and charge a moderate cost. On average, paid courses were rated 1.4 stars higher than free courses.
According to Daphne Koller, "If you put an instructor to sleep 300 years ago and woke him up in a classroom today, he'll say, Oh, I know exactly where I am".
[BBC; The Guardian; University World News]
A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation tonight at 8:00 describes how shady practices and in some cases outright fraud are woven into the fabric of UK education. This includes, over the past four years, more than 58,000 undergraduates have been investigated by their universities for plagiarism, of whom 40,000 were disciplined, 12,000 had marks deducted and 400 were expelled or excluded from HE.
Some 46% of UK academics said they have been pressurised to mark students' work generously, according to a Guardian survey of university staff, while 43% said they did not feel supported in their job and 37% did not believe teaching was valued by their institution. Nearly a third (31%) of women said they were worried that taking maternity leave would jeopardise their career progression and, among Russell Group staff members, 32% lacked faith in their vice-chancellor.
New Universities and Science Minister, Jo Johnson, is behind a crackdown on 190 bogus universities that are known to be offering fake degree certificates in order to, "protect the reputation of the UK as a provider of high-quality education". After a BBC investigation last year found fake University of Kent degree certificates on sale online for £500, Radio Kent discovered a website in China selling degree certificates from dozens of UK universities and, in the first quarter of 2015 alone, Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) added 42 bogus institutions to their database.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills faces cuts of £450m, with the Treasury saying that this will include "savings in higher education and further education budgets", but the Department for Education has indicated that this will include savings based on underspends in existing budgets, rather than cuts. The savings in education spending were announced by the Treasury as part of a £4.5bn package to reduce public debt.
A new report from PwC, London Calling: International students' contribution to Britain's economic growth, estimates that international students in London are contributing £1.32bn on fees to the UK economy, £1.36bn on living costs and a further £121m from visiting friends and families. London has "more world-class universities than any other city in the world" and as the "most popular city in the world for international students", hosts 40,000 from continental Europe and 67,000 from the rest of the world. More than one in five of the 310,000 international students in the UK studies at a London university and 18% of students in London are international, representing 39% of the total fee income of London's universities and supporting an estimated 70,000 jobs in the capital.
Commercial News
[The Independent; FT; Audrey Watters; EdSurge; VentureBeat]
Aberdeen University is to become the first British HEI to open a campus in South Korea, co-funded by the South Korean government and specialising in teaching engineering relating to the off-shore oil and gas industries. British universities and colleges have set up a number of overseas campuses, such as a Lancaster University in Ghana, Nottingham University in Malaysia and Leeds Metropolitan in India.
…but UCL is considering closing its expensive international physical campuses in favour of creating partnerships with existing institutions overseas. First to go will be UCL's Australian campus, which was originally established seven years ago, and Kazakhstan, with Qatar also under review. According to UCL Vice Provost Dame Nicola Brewer, having a physical campus "is very expensive, and if you only have a limited number of students it takes time to build up funding for research, and usually research funding only covers about 80% of costs."
British investment company Sandbox Partners has bought Pearson's Family Education Network, a platform designed to provide engaging learning activities for parents, teachers and students through games, activities, stories, homework help, and other resources. One of the most popular features is Poptropica – a virtual world that draws 3.2m monthly unique users in 200 different countries.
Epigeum – a 2005 spin-off from Imperial College which offers online courses on teaching, research, leadership and management to over 200 universities – has been acquired by Oxford University Press for £10.7m.
UCL has launched UCL Press, the University's in house publishing arm and the first fully open access university press in the UK – with all books, journals and monographs freely available online.
The EU has opened an official antitrust investigation into Amazon to determine if the company is abusing its power to distribute electronic books. The investigation will focus on Amazon's contracts that obligate publishers to tell the company if someone else is offering a better deal on electronic books. The EU worries this may be hampering competition and reducing consumer choice.
TES Global has acquired Hibernia College UK, a provider of online teacher training courses, professional development and qualification services with offices in the UK and Ireland.
KPCB Internet Trends Report 2015
[Stephen Downes]
Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends Report (196 slides) is always a feast of facts and figures. This year's begins with a story of reach, with 2.8bn global internet users (39% of the world population) and 5.2bn mobile phone users (73%) – and with the greatest annual growth currently in India (web +33%, smartphones +55%). Worldwide desktop traffic has peaked, but there is big growth in mobile data. Consumer use of technology is solid but "government, health care, and education have the longest way to go". And "six of the top 10 mobile apps globally are messaging apps ... messaging apps could evolve into the central hubs for communications".
UNESCO Framework for Action
[Campus Technology]
UNESCO has released a proposed set of 42 "thematic indicators" to monitor global education progress and equity. Almost 200 organizations and individuals from 67 countries participated in a public consultation from Nov 14 to Jan 15, leading to the publication of Education 2030. Indicators relate to: inequalities in education systems; education relating to global citizenship, HIV, sexuality and human rights; availability of ICT in schools; provision for people with disabilities; physical safety; and the effects of conflict and displaced populations.
The Human Capital Report 2015
[Stephen Downes]
The World Economic Forum's Human Capital Report 2015 investigates how countries are developing and deploying their people, evaluating the levels of education, skills and employment available in five age groups across 124 countries. It's rich in detail (319pp) but thin on humanism, with terms such as 'human capital' and 'talent' abounding. The model behind their Human Capital Index (p4) is also interesting, especially as I note that global workplace learning apparently ceases at age 54. Top countries? Finland, Norway and Switzerland, with Australia at 13, the US at 17 and the UK at 19.
Students 'Cannot Multi-Task With Mobiles And Study'
[BBC; The Guardian; The Telegraph]
Mobile Phones in the Classroom: Examining the Effects of Texting, Twitter, and Message Content on Student Learning reports on a series of tests conducted with 145 undergraduates to investigate how well they coped with multiple tasks such as watching a lecture on a video and then taking notes and answering questions, while facing a series of interruptions on their internet-connected mobile phones. Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that those sending and receiving messages while studying scored lower test results and were less effective at tasks such as note taking. They described an effect where students are, "physically present, yet mentally preoccupied by non-course-related material on their mobile devices." Last month, an LSE study found that schools in four English cities which banned phones saw test scores increased by more than 6%.
But research from Miami University suggests using phones in class could actually be beneficial, provided students stay on topic. Students used mobile devices to respond to messages that were relevant to classroom material, revealing a direct relationship between note taking and engaging in social media discussions: "Even if students are responding to messages from others, if that activity is related to class content, those students will take better-quality notes than students responding to unrelated content." Researchers believe this is because, "the related content allows students to engage in behaviours similar to note-taking: focusing on the material at hand, processing that material to determine key parts, and recording the important information."
Learning and Teaching in European Universities
[Stephen Downes]
The European University Association (EUA's) Trends 2015: Learning and Teaching in European Universities is a mid-2010s survey of trends in European HEIs, based on a questionnaire to which 451 HEIs from 46 countries responded. The result is a detailed (133pp) PDF which covers a number of elements including a section (4.3) devoted to e-learning and its impact. From this we learn that the most important objective is to "provide a more flexible learning offer, leaving it to the student to decide whether they learn on or off campus" (24%). Only 16% of respondents offered institution-wide online courses, while 38% offered them in some faculties; 20% did not offer online courses. MOOCs are currently only offered by 5% of respondents but this genre attracted the greatest "Not yet, but we are planning to" score of 24%.
Hardware Update
[Campus Technology; TechCrunch; Matthew Moran; BBC]
Analysts IDC expect worldwide shipments of tablets, e-readers and two-in-ones (laptops that can convert to tablets) to decline by 3.8% in 2015 although, within that declining market, the percentage of cellular-connected devices is expected to grow compared to WiFi only devices. Sales of small-screen tablets (currently 64% of the tablet market) are also expected to decline as a result of the growing popularity of phablets.
Chromebook sales in 2015 will improve by 27% over 2014 shipments to hit 7.3 million, according to forecast from Gartner. Most sales of the devices tend to be in North America (84% in 2014) and about two thirds are destined for educational use.
Ofcom reports that 54% of UK households now have a tablet, up from just 2% in 2011. This proportion rises to 64% among people aged 35-54 and a further 21% of households currently without a tablet said they were likely to get one within the next 12 months. Many households own multiple tablets, with 34% of kids aged 5-15 having their own device and 11% of 3-4 year olds now have their own tablet to keep them entertained.
The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) predicts that 3.2bn people will be online by the end of this year – nearly half the world's population of 7.2bn – and about 2bn of those will be in the developing world. There will also be more than 7bn mobile device subscriptions, with 78% the US and Europe already using mobile broadband, although that falls to an average of just 17.4% in Africa.
The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
An analysis of 45 million documents indexed in the Web of Science over the period 1973-2013 shows that in both natural/medical sciences and social sciences/humanities, Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, and Taylor & Francis increased their share of the published output, especially since the advent of the digital era (mid-90s). The top five most prolific scientific publishers combined account for more than 50% of all papers published in 2013, with social sciences papers having the highest level of concentration (70% from the top five publishers) while the humanities have remained relatively independent (20% from top five publishers). The paper also examined turnover and profits, both of which continue to head northwards.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Developer Portal
[Campus Technology]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has introduced the HMH Developer Portal, a new online interface where developers, designers and educators can access the company's APIs to create new learning applications and integrate them with HMH applications. HMH's Identity, Assignment and Document resources are currently available through the API, and the company will expose additional resources throughout 2015, "to provide greater opportunities for interoperability and ultimately an elegant, streamlined user experience for our customers".
Moky Keyboard Will Offer Invisible Touchpad
Moky is a [prototype] Bluetooth pantograph keyboard with built in gesture-supporting touchpad functionality in the area above the keys. Embedded Infrared laser sensors create a field over the entire keyboard that responds to swipe, scroll, pinch, drag, click and tap. Shipping is expected around Oct and the device supports Windows, Mac and Android. It will work as a keyboard only with iOS because iOS doesn't currently include mouse input.
Should Actors Replace Academics as "On-Camera Talent"?
[Campus Technology]
Let's be honest, not all academics make natural film stars. But does the authenticity of having the module chair or main author in a video outweigh any thespian deficiencies they may have? A recent trial by Purdue University saw an end to 30-40 min filmed lectures, replaced by sub-7-minute clips using a pair of actors in a studio setting. Scripts were read from autocue and a subject expert was on hand to catch any errors or mispronunciations. Feedback from the Purdue trial supported the use of actors: "We love our instructor, but we love what she does in the course content. Go with the actors because we love to watch them".
Cut a Long Story Short
[Catherine Chambers]
Catherine Chambers' new Cut a Long Story Shortblog reflects her passion for short-form visual storytelling as a way of bringing complex concepts to life. Each post identifies a key element of video storytelling, exploring the creative process (with a focus on, but not restricted to, educational content), supported by examples of content both OU commissioned and elsewhere, and identifying why they are effective in engaging audiences. Take a look, and she'd welcome any feedback.
Windows 10 Coming Next Month
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will launch on 29 Jul and, for most Win 7 and Win 8 users, this means a free upgrade is available during its first 12 months or release. What will you get (apart from a Start Menu)?
Word, Excel and PowerPoint built in
Microsoft Edge browser, brand new and designed for speed and collaboration, although IE11 will also be available
Xbox Live and Xbox app for interacting with friends, recording gameplay and streaming games to the desktop
Windows Continuum, allowing you to sync and move between multiple Windows 10 devices
Windows Hello, providing face, iris or fingerprint recognition to login
...and Cortana voice control, so shouting at your PC while it attends to 14 really important background tasks will take on a whole new dimension
Copyright Changes Afoot?
[The Guardian]
Current copyright legislation limits the amount of data that researchers can "mine" – using a computer to scan for facts and data within thousands of relevant articles to discover connections – because the process requires the mining program to download and copy content first before scanning it. Not surprisingly publishers are resisting any changes to laws in case content is used under the pretence of text mining but then re-published and charged for elsewhere. However, the EU is consulting this summer with a view to updating its 2001 copyright laws to better suit the digital age, thus giving researchers greater access to published work.
But every day, millions of Europeans may be unwittingly breaking copyright law. Due to an obscure rule known as Freedom of Panorama, those innocent snapshots of modern buildings you've taken in countries such as France and Belgium are breaches of copyright. While the UK does have this freedom, we may be at risk of losing it in the ongoing copyright reform negotiations taking place in the European Parliament.
Data Visualisation
[Visualising Data]
If data visualisation is your thing, Andy Kirk collates an extensive monthly digest of visualisation exemplars, news, tutorials, articles and other useful goodies. Too many to comment on here but I found The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050 quite impactful.
iOS 9 public beta arrives next month with a full launch in the Autumn for iPad2 and iPhone 4S upwards. [TechCrunch]
Intel's Innovation ToolBox aims to "help drive the next generation of inventors, creators and entrepreneurs in your classroom." [Intel]
There are calls for a global fund to make alternative provision for education during times of war and other disasters. [University World News]
Users of Google Photos can now backup up full-resolution photos and videos to Google's cloud at no cost. [TechCrunch]
Oliver Haslam has collated 25 iOS features you probably didn't know about. [Redmond Pie]
Education Week has published a special issue on accessibility, special education and the transition from (US) K-12 to college. [Education Week]
Brian Neese describes 15 assistive technology tools for students with disabilities. [TeachThought]
I mentioned unusual Google street views last month. Here are 40 new remote islands and underwater locations. [TechCrunch]
What would you like to see in a Using technology to enhance learning CPD course? FutureLearn is seeking your views. [ALT]
Twitter will next month remove the 140 character limit on direct messaging. [TechCrunch]
Vodafone is entering the UK home broadband market in selected areas, with preferential rates for existing customers. [BBC]
Tenders are invited (by 6 Jul) for delivery of learning and development opportunities in the education and training sector. [ALT]
Apple's App Store now offers 1.5 million apps, has passed 100bn downloads and paid over $30bn to developers. [TechCrunch]
Oxford's last remaining all-male college, St Benet's Hall, will open its doors to women. Although not for weepy science subjects, obviously... [Reuters]
And Finally…
[Rafa Hidalgo]
360 deg videos have been around for a while now but YouTube launched its 360 player back in March. The technology is aimed mainly at the growing VR market (Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, etc) but the videos work well on iPads and Android tablets, where you can swipe or simply move your device around to see left, right, up and down. Search within YouTube for "360 videos" or you might want to check out the wingsuit flying experience, Okinawa underwater, or some of the rides at Parc Asterix.
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David Wilson of Mauds and his production staff
Visitors arrived in groups of twenty throughout a three-day event that featured an exquisitely decorated marquee which was entered through a fridge!
The attendees were fed and watered and treated to crepes and American popcakes as well as tasting the latest flavours from Mauds which included Lemon Cheesecake, Strawberry Cheesecake, Banana and Hazelnut Crunch,
Coffee and Hazelnut Crunch, Jaffa Cake and Jammy Dodger.
After receiving a full presentation on the new Mauds brand story and the company's 31 years of success, they were given a tour of the top-secret manufacturing plant where they watched the talented Mauds team make the famed Poor Bear ice cream by hand, using methods unchanged over 25 years and 70 year old Mauds stalwart "Jack the Sugar Boiler" making the legendary honeycomb that has made this flavour the award winning delight that it has been for decades.
Mauds owner David Wilson said "this is the first time we have created an event like this and we are delighted it was such a huge success. Our customers were very impressed with the whole branding package and reaction to our new flavours was excellent. This marks the beginning of a new marketing push for the Mauds brand and we intend to expand the business over the next two years.
In the current climate, consumers want provenance and premium quality that they can trust and our products use only the best of local ingredients like the finest milk from Coleraine cows and special additions like prime Belgian chocolate".
Long standing Mauds customer Linda McCormick who runs Spar, Crawfordsburn commented "I have been a fan of Mauds' superb product range for many years and this new point of sale package and brand personality takes it into a new era. Seeing around the factory was a privilege and totally underpinned this company's reputation for an artisan ice cream of remarkable quality".
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are deposited the remains of
Coln. CHARLES W. BULOW
of Charleston So. Ca.
who died on the 1st of May
aged 44 years.
A prominent native of Charleston, South Carolina, Bulow came to Florida during the transfer of government from Spain to the United States. He purchased more than 4,000 acres about 30 miles south of St. Augustine where he raised sugar cane, cotton, indigo and rice. He also owned a house on the bayfront in St. Augustine.
Col. Bulow did not get to enjoy watching his holdings grow and prosper because he died in 1823 (May 1st on his grave, but May 7th in his published obituary). His son, John, who was 17 and studying in Paris at the time of his father's death, would take over the Florida enterprise and turn it into the largest sugar mill in east Florida. In 1836, the plantation was destroyed by Seminole Indians.
Today it is protected as Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park – part of Florida's state park system.


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