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The story of my first experience with inter-library loan has a new chapter. There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is that the local library was not able to obtain a copy of the book I wanted. The good news is that the Geneablogger Gods looked kindly on me and sent a guardian angel to help me with my quest.
After some exchanges via this blog and Facebook, my blogger buddy, Barbara Poole from Life From the Roots, asked me if the New England Historic Genealogical Society had the book in its library because she was planning to go there Tuesday (today). I searched and sure enough, they have it! I reported back to Barbara with the author, title, the call number and location of the book as well as the pages I was interested in reading.
When I arrived home from work this evening, there was a message from Barbara stating that she had obtained copies of the pages I was looking for. And the copies were attached! WOW.
As I started to download the images, I realized how much information I now have to assimilate about this branch of my family tree.
But even more importantly, it reaffirmed my belief that genealogists are the best group of people in the world.
Thank you, my friend. I hope I will be able to return the favor some day.


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Just for Leaders - Working with 4-H Cloverbuds
Publication Number: AKH-00017
Author/Sponsor: Marla Lowder
Price: FREE WEB-ONLY
Short Description:
The Cloverbud program enhances children's development through fun, hands-on activities. This publication will help leaders understand the 4-H policies concerning Cloverbuds and learn about the characteristics of six- to eight-year-olds and how to involve them in the 4-H program. Suggestions for program planning will help leaders enhance the Cloverbud experience for all children.

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(23) Anonymous, February 16, 2012 7:17 AM
Selfish? Liability? Indifference?
Obviously there are situations where one doesn't get involved, but for many people they don't want the responsibility and possible repercussions! Lack of doing is a choice also and if we are responsible for our fellow, it may be a difficult but correct! How many people have the courage or caring to take a stand and make the effort?! I sense from some of the comments a certain indifference. Should we not question our true motives ?
(22) peter kraynik, February 12, 2012 10:45 AM
Negative Commandment 281 Listening to a Single Litigant "You shall not raise a false report"—Exodus 23:1. A judge may not listen to the arguments of one of the parties in a case if the other party is not present. This because, for the most part, arguments presented by a party when not in the presence of the opposing party are false. This mitzvah ensures that the judge doesn't approach the case with any untrue prejudice. From: "Chabad.org" Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
Sidney Strauss, February 13, 2012 1:24 AM
You shall not stand idly next to your fellowman's blood
(See also my response #5) This is not about a court case. There is a clear commnadment in the Torah not to be inactive when your felowman is faced with the potential loss of either life, limb or property. Of course this has to be balanced with not routinely revealing secrets, or not relating derogatory or untrue information. (Since this is a Jewish Forum, priests keeping items secret is totally irrelevant despite what #21 writes.)
(21) SusanE, February 9, 2012 1:51 AM
Ask your Daughter
Ask your daughter what she wants to happen. Does she want you to stop her from being with the other 15 year old? Does she want to know what she can to say to her friend about the inappropriate behavior? Is it possible the daughter is doing some of the same things that the other girl is doing and this is the way for her to open the communication with her father about herself? Too many variables, including the fact that what the daughter said is heresay to the father He doesn't know for sure the information is correct.. To go to the parents with simply the daughters accusation, is just unthinkable. A physician takes an oath to not reveal a patients records. A priest takes an oath to keep secrets of strangers. A Fathers bond of trust with his daughter should be at least that sacred.
(20) Anonymous, February 8, 2012 9:29 PM
I basicly agree. How about consulting an big Rabbi?
I basicly agree with Rabbi Salomon. However, if part of the relationship with the daughter includes Chinuch towards asking Wise Rabbis and submitting to their rulings then I would suggest to my daughter that this situation requires such a consultation. In the very least, I myself would ask a rabbi how to proceed with such a difficult dilemma. Thank you Rabbi Salomon for getting us to think!


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When Editor Cole called me into his office to tell me about the Nova convertible he had just found I was unprepared for the craftsmanship I would soon witness. While most editors are overzealous and jumpy, Terry said the car was neat and I'd like it as soon as I laid eyes on it. So, at Terry's request I gave the owner a call and set up a shoot for the following week.
When I showed up at John Roubian's doorstep, I stepped beyond the threshold into Nova heaven. Inside the walls of his precision grinding shop was the most perfect, well-executed '63 Nova SS convertible I had ever seen. As a magazine guy I have the opportunity to see a selection of cool machines, but the combination of proper elements is what makes a car worth its weight in steel.
John recalls an early childhood memory of a neighbor down the street who-you guessed it-had a '63 Nova SS convertible, Palomar Red, of course. The young lady gave John rides to church on Sundays, and occasionally around the block. While John concedes that his love for Novas probably stems from that car, he had no idea at the time what a profound impact one car can have on an 11 year old. When looking back on his adolescence, all John can recall is the feeling of freedom while cruising to church.
About 6 years ago, John got his first itch to restore a Nova convertible. He began his quest by reading the Sunday paper classified section. One morning John came across an ad for a perfectly original '63 Nova SS convertible. After giving the number a call John was on his way to meet his beauty for the first time. When he arrived, he played dumb and acted as if he knew nothing of cars, hoping that might give him a tactical advantage when negotiating. A few hours later he was on his way home, but not in the car he came in.
After getting the '63 home, John and his brother began formulating a plan for the restoration. As all self-made entrepreneurs say, every task has to have a plan. John wanted a car that resembled the one from his childhood, with a few minor changes, of course. His version had to perform to the standards of a modern muscle machine, while maintaining the pristine look of an original '63 Nova SS. The entire unibody was disassembled, including the bolt-up front clip. The original front end was replaced with a Heidt's tubular independent coilover front end. To handle the horsepower from the retrofit ZZ4, a beefy 12-bolt rearend was installed with KYB shocks and a multi-leaf suspension. Power was transferred through a 200-4R Buick GN automatic overdrive backed by a custom aluminum driveshaft. To make shifting smoother John fabricated a one-off shifter linkage to accommodate the stock SS center console.
After the chassis was rolling John approached a longtime friend to complete the paint and body. After hearing that it would take four months to complete the exterior John saw the end in sight. One-and-a-half years later the cosmetics were completed. The body was straight as an arrow and the Sikkens multi-stage urethane was flatter than a glass lake on a Sunday morning.
While John's patience was wearing thin, the toughest part of the project was yet to come, the search for SS trim. In John's own words, "Finding SS trim is like looking for the Pacific Ocean on the western border of Arizona." Needless to say that 18 weeks of trim searching and restoration was well worth it, but hard on the blood pressure. With the trim, paint, drivetrain, and suspension complete the interior was the only lacking element in John's equation.
In keeping with the theme of his resto-cruiser, John kept all the correct SS interior down to the paint used to coat the inside of the trunk. John's only major modification was the Custom Autosound head unit. When looking at the entire package, John's attention to detail and skilled background in engineering makes for a winning package. We were fortunate enough to flog John's machine for a few short minutes, take it from us the only thing we wished is that we had flogged John's '63 for a few short days.


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I'm looking to have fun in a way that is utterly disconnected from the real world. Civ4 is about as "educational" as I'd be willing to mess with. It gives you the history behind the units and buildings in the civilopedia, but that history is 100% optional to look at. If the game stopped me with a message like "Did you know that ancient bronze-age spears can take down a B-17 bomber if they're thrown real hard?" it would come across as obtrusive and/or preachy.
The best teaching games is all about getting input from multiple sources. So fro any non-profit whose goal specially is to create a range of educational games, it is really all about infrastructure, not creating the games directly, but creating the management infrastructure to combine expertise from wide ranging sources, educational, child psychology and computer engineering.
Step one contact all universities around the world with the aforementioned goal and see which ones wont to participate in a shared
You don't know how much history I learned trying to pass the age check quiz on Leisure Suit Larry.
The OP may want to take a look at Mathletics [wikipedia.org], a popular subscription based Maths e-learning website with a game component.
Disclaimer: I work for the publisher.
Also, sorry for threadjacking.
It kinda makes me wonder though if at that point it's really an educational game, or just a fun RTS that's just vaguely historically themed.
E.g., at Agincourt,
- it wasn't on a hill, it was on flat ground. The hill was at Crecy.
- it wasn't just archers. About 1/5 of the English army were dismounted knights functioning as a heavy pikemen in front of the archers. The hail of arrows and the mud were one factor, but without that wall of pikes the French heavy cavalry would have reached the archers and cut them down. With heavy losses, but they would have.
In effect, what really happened was more of a "the knights lost to combined arms" case than "the knights lost to archers."
- the terrain played a more massive part than just the mud. There also was the fact that it was flanked on both sides by heavy woods, which was as good as impenetrable during a battle. (Anyone trying to make their way through it, would have arrived the next day at best.) Which allowed the relatively small number of pikemen to form a phalanx 4 rows deep and still completely prevent access to the archers, as well as be immune to flanking. (When facing lots of cavalry, flanking is your #1 worry. That's what the cavalry is there for.)
Plus, it severely limited how many french could actually get into melee with the English. Even on foot and packed shoulder to shoulder, there seems to have been room for a little over 200 in a line. Which severely blunted the whole numbers advantage of the French. By contemporary French accounts, those in the third row of the attack wave already couldn't use their swords against the English.
Worse yet, the French ended up packed in a tight formation, which is the worst possible kind against missile fire.
On an open hilltop, the story would have been very different.
- the french heavy armour played a much lesser role in their delay. The heaviest armour (chain or plate alike) at the time was about 40 pounds, and it would be almost another 200 years before plate got to be 60 pounds. Compared to the weight of the human and the horse, that was peanuts.
The terrain there was freshly ploughed earth and literally soaked in water. Some people have actually drowned in that mud, which gives an idea of how liquid it was. Even without armour, marching through it would have been a pain.
On the whole, probably the armour still actually helped. Otherwise they'd be dead even sooner.
- it wasn't really "a few" archers. It was 5000 archers, raining a total of 1000 arrows per second upon the enemy. To give you a comparison, it's the equivalent of over a hundred M-60 machineguns on full auto, non-stop. It wasn't just missile fire, it was concentrated missile fire, the kind that would not be seen again until WW1.
So basically did that game really teach you much history, or was it just a game? I just have to wonder.
The Agincourt map wasn't "on a hill." He misremembered.
It kinda makes me wonder though if at that point it's really an educational game, or just a fun RTS that's just vaguely historically themed.
Oh, the point ws to make a fun RTS, and include soem history wherever it helped flesh out the fun. That said, for all your very accurate points about how the OP was wrong about Agincourt, he knows it exists, and knows that archers were very significant to the battle. That puts him ahead of most folks I know.
To address one of your specific points:
In effect, what really
Well, that's sorta what I was wondering about: how far can you go with making it educational, before it ceases to be fun to play at all.
Since we're in a sub-thread about history, history isn't really just about when some fun (at least in the RTS implementation;) battle happened, but even more importantly the historical political and occasionally economic conditions that led to the conflict.
Ok, Agincourt is easy, but let's take Manzikert. The battle itself would be trivial to implement, but the battle itself
But it didn't even scratch the surface of how the Western Roman Empire really imploded.
Still, unless they're actually in school, how many people think about the fall of Rome? How many think about Rome at all in their lives, or even ancient history for that matter? Reminding people of history and getting people interested is enough to get some to curiously click a link on Wikipedia and get the real history behind the fall of Rome.
Playing the game makes it real to people, and important.. it turns Rome fr
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Art of War by Sun Tzu, ought to cover some objective scenarios.
Age of Empires 2 was great for history.
I remember how it taught me all about how the Scots won the Battle of Falkirk! [wikipedia.org]
You had to win to progress, even though they historically lost.
I think that all of those flash physics games are about as popular as educational games get before they require a long lead in. You can do the first few levels of fantastic contraption and get the basics, then have fun and compare solutions. The replayability is good too. Since you can set up your own rules for beating levels again. All water, no power, etc. There are a couple good ones out there that have a real following.
The next step is those that require an investment to get to know the environment. The
In this case, they can go nuts here http://os.cqu.edu.au/oswinsdvd/ [cqu.edu.au], someone seems to have rummaged all over the web, looking for answers to that exact same question and even created a downloadable disc image, good work by Neville Richter.
Really, Educational and Games seems to always fail.
One of my all time favorite games was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? To this day I still have the theme song stuck in my head as well as more world trivia than I really need.
Does length and depth of gameplay matter to you, or would you rather play a trivial game with subconscious educational value?
In a paper we recently discussed [slashdot.org], researchers noted that
Ironically, they may even be less likely to become game makers themselves, helping to perpetuate the cycle. Many have suggested that games function as crucial gatekeepers for interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
By that logic, almost all games offer children an actively engaged exercise in problem solving. Edutainment games seem to be dry and boring with the ulterior motive easily spoon fed to the player.
I would stress games that have various degrees of puzzle solving but little obvious educational value. Look up the Castle of Dr. Brain [wikipedia.org]. I played the hell out of that and would welcome a web based clone with higher level difficulty! I also feel it gave
I dunno, Where in the Foo is Carmen Sandiego is pretty overtly educational, but it was still fun and successful.
Back on my old 486 there was some math-based educational game that I recall loving. It was a side-scroller with decent graphics. I think I even played it a few times a few years later when the math it was teaching was already below me just because it was a decent 2d game.
I'll be darned if I can remember what the name of that game was.
I also enjoyed "Where in the X is Carmen Sandiego"
was it math rescue from apogee?
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Instead of the absent minded professor and his beautiful-yet-intelligent-and-spunky daughter needing rescuing, have the scientist do the rescuing. Or better yet, have the absent minded professor's hard working apprentice do the rescuing. You know, a young man or woman that your target demographic can relate to.
I'm thinking of Penny, Inspector Gadget's daughter(niece? Niece sounds right). She was always saving his moron ass with her computer book (zomg a portable computer the size of an unabridged dictiona
Other characters. Abraham Van Helsing, Robert Neville (I am Legend) - might be cool setting up traps and learning anatomy. Abraham Van Helsing was based on a character archetype known as the Byronic Hero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronic_hero [wikipedia.org]. By definition, Robert Neville might qualify as well http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/byronic+hero?qsrc=2446 [reference.com].
I'm also quite convinced that Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of The Caribbean, must have an IQ around 140, or at the very least a remarkably high spat
You impress me with your pretty words and brainy thinking, eldavojohn.
Also, I'd like to caution you that we are a extreme set of the population. Opinions here may not be valuable to someone trying to reach the rest of the population.
Which is a way of saying that you don't have a clue how to leverage gaming to edification in science.
Science isn't problem solving, it's problem identification.
An attempt at game-play within the goal of "increasing science literacy and awareness" should constantly present new technical facts and procedural scenarios. That's not game play.
And i
Has it ever been shown that working out puzzles improves intelligence?
From what I understand that's debatable. On one hand you can practice the same sort of puzzles that are on the tests and get better at the tests, but how would one do on equivelant puzzles they haven't memorized? There's supposed to be a strong correlation between IQ and vocabulary, seems best to me. Puzzles by themselves don't seem to cover the breadth and depth that is intelligence. A *functional* vocabulary, that's different.
I think for the age range you are targeting, the style of game that would have the most educational value (as in that something is actually learned and reinforced) works around putting understanding of concepts to use to solve problems within the game. The biggest problem for many students is being taught concepts but not how to apply them or use them to critically think through a challenge. If the game centered around having to discover and then apply scientific ideas/concepts to navigate through the gam
I like *fun* games. If it's fun, then you can make me learn all you want.
The problem is that most educational games start with the lesson and then try to build the game around it. Start with a good game and then make it educational.
The first thing you need to define is: what would be the goal of the game. It's probably not for time consuming leisure but to get the kids to learn something. But what do you want them to learn? Do you want them to learn math, then you'll need to integrate math somehow, for reading you should integrate words somehow, if you want to increase reaction time or cognition then you'll have to probably build a shooter. It also has to be fun and rewarding, if the kid doesn't like playing with it then they are goin
I highly recommend "Mindrover." In this game, you build and program a little robot that goes through obstacle courses, fights other robots, etc. It's got an intuitive graphical programming language (though you can edit the files directly for a more advanced, hands-on approach). You get to program the robot's default behavior, define how it responds to threats, program "hunting" strategies, etc.
The main website appears to be down, but here's the community site [battlespot.com] with a demo for free download. If someone had given me this game when I was a kid, I'd definitely be a better programmer today.
I'm going to have to check that one out. Thanks for the link. I remember programming in turtle quite a bit from 2nd - 5th grade. When I got into "real" high school programming I was able to pick it up much quicker than most of the other kids because of all the time I wasted making programs with turtle.
I also played Project LRNJ: Slime Forest quite a bit to help me learn the Japanese Alphabet. They did a pretty good job of making the game fun though it did get a bit repetitive.
Ah, turtle. I used to prank my classmates by surreptitiously typing commands into their keyboards that sent the turtle into an infinite loop. It would cover the screen with tracks until the confused teacher decided to reboot the machine. Good times...
One has only to look at Oregon Trail to get your answers.
The thing that made Orgeon Trail a success IMO is that little information was forced upon the user. Anything information that was trying to be taught, was presented either in a place that the user had to go and ask for the information, or was a part of the actual game itself. Talking with townsfolk would reveal historic facts. The player did not have to talk with the townsfolk to play the game. However, the key was how much information was stuffed
whose mandate is
I'd like to know from whence this alleged mandate comes.
I think you mean you are another group with a common bond and you have a goal. "Non Profit"? I didn't see any mention of 501C.
Increase science literacy and awareness - maybe you could explain just what metric you would use.
"Science Alberta Foundation operates under the governance of a volunteer Board of Directors composed of accomplished individuals from across the province"
did you get the PR you were looking for?
You have to start with Instructional Objectives if you're going to create an educational game.
The trick is designing these in a way that translates into a teachable experience that's fun and sticks to what you're trying to teach.
The hard part is doing this well. It's kind of like translating a book to a screenplay. Some things translate well (scenery, dialog), but other things have to be reworked into a different presentation (timelines, inner thoughts, points of view, backstory).
If you're trying to teach b
This brings to mind the discussions in the commentary mode in Half Life 2 and company. A big issue with testing was keeping the players focus on something without forcing them to look a certain way, usually by some obvious event in a direction not encumbered with dull scenery.
Another focus, and I've seen this in a lot of games, is never to tell you what to do but make figuring out that the solution easy the first time in a simple form, then being given a much more complex form of it to work with sometime later. Throughout the game, you're given more 'tools' for solutions and they stack up into greater puzzles but never anything so incredibly complicated it'll piss the player off.
Research is the most important part of these massive efforts and contenders like Valve put a Hell of a lot of money into it. In this case I would suggest some of your own research applied to the already improved methods.
Horribly suggestion.
He isn't talking about designing a game, he is talking about what makes it interesting. And based on the many kids games, game developers have no clue how to create an educational kids game that is interesting.
Horribly suggestion.
Horrable grammer.
You can ask Wikipedia too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game [wikipedia.org]
Have fun... and learn!
I would think there are better places to ask this question, if you want a reply from the people the question is addressed at. If it does turn out that this is where 8 - 12's spend their time, then I'm in the wrong place - though it could explain some of the comments that appear.
I doubt there are many 8-12 year olds on Slashdot, but many of us here have children in that age range and can comment on what held our children's interest.
I believe Slashdot would be a good place to ask this. I suspect that I am not along among parents on Slashdot who, when considering a new game or toy for our children, consider how well it maintains their interest as well as replayability.
There are many parents here.
I've always thought that Darwin Pond [ventrella.com] was a cool piece of free (beer) software that could be used to teach evolution. It's a simulation game with swimming organisms that compete for food and mates. There's even assortative mating [wikipedia.org] built in.
What's great about it is there's no fixed goal, it's completely up to the player--maybe you want to try to breed fast swimmers or cool moving swimmers. You can watch the abundance of types change through time, try out your own "designed" types or introduce random mutations into the population.
I would recommend games like this.
That is exactly what Rama did for me. It was an old Sierra game based on the Arthur C. Clarke. You learn two alien number systems which just happen to be octal and hexadecimal. I didn't realize until later how much I actually learned and remembered. Plus the puzzles were a blast.
A game with emphasis on beauty and immersion could teach me a lot of things. Like the Myst games; immersive enough to have me decipher an alien number system. Could as well have taught me hexadecimals or binary numbers.
Yeah, I recall a lengthy sequence in Stephenson's Diamond Age where the Primer taught Nell about binary numbers and encodings, boolean logic, transistor logic circuits, and even lisp programming by analogizing them into puzzles she had to solve to escape a mythical castle. One of the puzzles
The educational part need to be hidden as part of the game. SO they are learning witbhout realiing it.
And the game need to be entertaining.
I would suggest you take a working game and add background information. If you proceed a different way, for example designing the teaching goals first, you put your own creativity to a very hard test.
For example I was recently asked what I would like to see in the "Modern Combat" Add-On to Battle for Wesnoth as unit descriptions. I answered: I want to see the history of these units. But providing history demands quite an effort in research.
My wife is a middle school science teacher. I suggested she should tell the kids that learning science is like learning the cheat codes to the universe.
How about making that a bit more literal. Maybe concepts could be adapted to be "cheat codes" or "upgrades" in actual games. Think of how much time is spent in games trying to improve and optimize character, weapon, or vehicle abilities. What if you had a game that let you upgrade your weapons by applying new concepts. For example, complete a task and you are taught f=ma. You get to modify your weapon by choosing m. Next task and you are given more information, such as how a is a function of m. Start introducing more variables. Every variable and every interaction is a teachable concept.
Heck, eventually you could have some kid working on differential equations for orbital mechanics so that he can kick his buddy's ass during 5th period math. The kid discovers Holman transfers so that he has maximum weapons payload to dump on his friend.
For boys at least you could make a FPS style game. Where in order to reload you must accomplish an arithmetic question. In order to obtain more ammo with which you may reload you have to do more problems, possibly of any sort (reading comprehension, spelling, math, math word problems, the list could go on). You could make almost all interactions with objects in the world involve solving a problem, anything that you'd want done without breaking the pace of gameplay would probably be best left as a simple ari
It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for game mechanics to be intrinsically connected to the content. "Solve an exercise, reload a gun" demotivates the content of exercises, because they are seen as obstacles to some (other) prize. It takes a bit more thought to figure out how to make your content a necessary part of the game play, but it's worth it.
For a good math example in particular, try Zoombinis.
I'm assuming here that education is your primary goal, and the game is simply the means to achieve that goal.
Here's why you're asking the wrong people:
Most educational software is lousy. This is because the people who write it tend to fall into one of two groups:
I suggest you ask some children in your target audience what games they like to play (not strictly video games, all games). You might also take a walk down to the toy store and see what's there. Here are a few timeless examples that translate well in the video game medium:
My oldest is still younger than your target group, but I can tell you a bit about what he finds entertaining and educational.
First of all, he's pre-literate. Computer games have been a real motivator for his literacy and numeracy, though. While our generation's first sight words were things like dog, cat, boy, girl... he recognizes start, next, exit, off, on, and his own name, as well as our names (he started picking those up when we were all playing Peggle a whole lot, and we didn't want him playing under our names!).
So, games that don't require a ton of literacy to play, but where it's going to be easier to do things if you can read prompts or buttons, can encourage sight-reading in younger kids. I wouldn't be surprised if instructions or useful background information that scrolls by at a slow speed might improve reading speed and accuracy in older kids.
Numeracy has been an even bigger thing for our son, though. One day he was watching me play Bubble Spinner. He read off my score: "You have 83 points!" then I shot a ball and got three more points. "86!" I made another shot and got six points. "89-- er... 92 points!" he had intuitively assumed that 89 was next in the series, without being aware he was identifying a pattern or doing math. He can also read off five digit numbers correctly, and thanks to various iterations of Desktop Tower Defense, is learning how "money" works.
So, you can teach a lot about math and numbers just by having a semi-complicated scoring system, such as one where you earn points that you can then spend on upgrades, which cost different amounts of money, have different ammunition requirements, can kill different numbers of creatures (or pop different numbers of balloons, or stun different numbers of monkeys, or whatever) per shot, and so on.
The hardest part is to balance the relatively low tolerance for frustration that most kids have, with the need to be persistently engaging and somewhat challenging so they don't get bored. Something that you can have fun with at first, but can do MORE with as you learn more about it, is ideal.
I think you have to be clear as to whether you're teaching facts or concepts.
For example, the World Traveler IQ Challenge [travelpod.com]
seems largely fact-based. Where is X -- click on it -- get feedback -- improve at an incredible rate. But you're actually learning "concepts", because you build up a map rather than just "X is the capital of Y" etc. The map gives you an implicit understanding of geography, so you don't have to memorise a list to know all the countries neighbouring Eritrea, for example.
Then there's Slime
learn about projectile motion, angles, and parabolas..
Instead of focusing on games, you could expand the card decks available for free/OSS non-linear learning tools and help promote those tools.
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ [mnemosyne-proj.org]
http://web.mac.com/jrc/Genius/ [mac.com]
are ones I have used.
Play Rocky's Boots by Warren Robinett. The almost-perfect educational game. (I had it on Commodore 64, but I believe there's a Apple II image downloadable from this site: http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/ [warrenrobinett.com] )
... would be a great idea. I've often thought the problem isn't "educational games" it's TAKING AN EXISTING GAME adding educational elements and just let the kids play the f'n game and get out of their way.
You can't have a game that isn't fun to play, if you make educational "game" that isn't fun or addictive to play it's pointless because the whole point of education is practice and re-enforcement of the things you want the students to learn.
I think the whole culture of school has done a lot ot kill curio
... Immune attack
http://fas.org/immuneattack/download [fas.org]
THIS game if it was made in higher definition would be fantastic, I remember being intrigued while playing this game and thinking what would happen if you got professional game developers making stuff like this.
There's nothing quite like moving around your immune system and zapping bugs that really reenforced remembering stuff.
You want a shining example of a really good educational game? Try Quarky and Quaysoo's Turbo Science [wikipedia.org], a 1992 MS-DOS game published by Sierra designed to teach scientific concepts to children. Lots of sweet cartoon animation, and stealthfully educational.
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FVSU Bumped Up to Fifth in Region Rankings | News
FORT VALLEY (School Release) --After a convincing win over the Golden Rams of Albany State University in the 23rd Annual Fountain City Classic on Saturday, November 3rd, the Wildcats of Fort Valley State University (FVSU) rose in this week's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Regional Rankings. Ranked sixth last week, FVSU rose to the fifth spot in the Super Region 2 rankings in the next to final poll of the season.
With only the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Championship game remaining, if the Wildcats can maintain fifth place or higher, they will be assured of a berth in the NCAA Division II Region Play-offs which begin on Saturday, November 17th. The top six finishers of Super Region 2 advance to the play-offs. FVSU's last post-season appearance was in 2001.
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How did dinosaurs take to the sky? That's the question addressed in "Flying Monsters 3D," which debuts Monday at Orlando Science Center.
The film is narrated by filmmaker/naturalist David Attenborough, uses GCI technology to re-create scenes starring the pterosaurs of 220 million years ago.
"Flying Monsters 3D" will show daily in the Digital Adventure Theater. Showings are included in regular OSC admission, which is $19 ($13 for ages 3-11).
More info: OSC.org.


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Basics of seals for rotating motion (WE170)
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This interactive tutorial aims to provide a basic introduction to the selection of industrial seals for rotating motion. The study material is divided into six chapters; introduction, industrial seals, operating conditions factors, radial shaft seals, V-rings, and applications.


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AC Milan have joined the race to sign Manchester United and Liverpool transfer target Angelo Ogbonna, according to talkSPORT.
The Italy international recently revealed he was flattered by speculation linking him to Liverpool, but Manchester United are also believed to be keen on the young defender.
The Premier League pair were thought to be scrapping for his signature, but now Serie 'A' giants AC Milan have joined the race. Ogbonna is rated as one of his country's brightest young defensive prospects, and the Torino defender already has four Italy caps.
The 24-year-old was part of the national team squad that manager Cesare Prandelli picked for Euro 2012, as the 2006 World Cup winners reached the final, only to lose to Spain 4-0 in the final.
Milan have endured a difficult start to the Serie 'A' season - they currently lie 11th - and coach Massimiliano Allegri is under pressure to turn it around.
Allegri's side have won just four of their opening seven matches, and their normally resolute defence has looked porous in the season's first few months.
TalkSPORT reports that Allegri could refocus his transfer efforts on solidifying his defence, with Ogbonna potentially a priority for Milan.
But the Italian club are likely to face competition from the Premier League, with Liverpool and Manchester United thought to be monitoring Ogbonna's progress.
United have problems at the heart of their defence. Captain Nemanja Vidic is currently on the sidelines, while Chris Smalling and Phil Jones have been long-term injury concerns. And Sir Alex Ferguson could look to Ogbonna to provide cover for United centre-back Rio Ferdinand - a player who has had injury troubles of his own in recent seasons.
Liverpool look relatively secure at the back, but Brendan Rodgers is believed to be keen on the young defender. The Anfield club already have Martin Skrtel and Daniel Agger, so the Reds could choose to focus their efforts elsewhere in January.
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Steelers battle lower attendancePublished: 11/14/13 @ 12:00
Associated Press
Mike Tomlin isn't much on public gratitude. Still, the perpetually focused Pittsburgh Steelers coach went out of his way to thank the fans who showed up at Heinz Field to watch his team drum the Buffalo Bills 23-10 on Sunday for its third win of the season.
"It's not something we take for granted," Tomlin said.
Good idea.
A crowd of 60,406 turned out to watch two teams with a combined 5-12 record play on a cold, blustery day more suited for late-December than three weeks before Thanksgiving. The 5,000 or so who bought their tickets but chose to not make it through the turnstiles were conspicuous, their absence marked by pockets of open gold seats in certain portions of the stadium tucked tight against the Allegheny River.
Welcome to life in the new NFL, where "sellouts" are the norm but full houses are becoming the exception, and not just in places like woeful Jacksonville.
Blame it on mediocre teams. Blame it on rising ticket prices. Blame in on the comfort of your couch, where it doesn't cost hundreds of dollars to sit, and the cold beer in your fridge, the one that doesn't cost $8 a bottle.
The Steelers (3-6), who have six Vince Lombardi Trophies in the lobby at team headquarters, are in danger of posting their lowest average attendance since 2003, when they limped to a 6-10 record and missed the playoffs.
The franchise is on a similar trajectory this fall in a place that can be tough — by NFL standards — to completely fill even when times are good. Pittsburgh is averaging 61,465 through four home dates, the lowest over the same span since Heinz Field opened in 2001.
It's a trend hitting the league regardless of market size or on-field success. In 2008, only five teams played to stadiums less than 95 percent full. That number has doubled this season at a time when TV ratings are at their best since 2006.
Steelers wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery was on the 2007 Jets that limped to a 4-12 record. As the season wore on and the losses mounted, things got weird.
"Pittsburgh came to town but it felt like an away game," Cotchery said. "It was so loud in there. I remember us doing silent count and all of that stuff at home. But we were a bad team. I probably wouldn't want to take my kid out in the cold and watch a bad team play football."
It can lead, in some instances, to the unnerving realization that players can't simply rely on the juice — or the vitriol — from the crowd to get amped up.
"When we play on the road, certain places are just known for being quiet," Cincinnati left tackle Andrew Whitworth said.
The Steelers plan to add an additional 3,000 seats at Heinz Field, even though they've never averaged more than 63,458 per game since its debut in 2001. All that's left is deciding who picks up most of the tab. The issue remains in the Pittsburgh courts, though whenever the expansion is complete, the same factors that fans face every Sunday will remain in place.
"It's just how it works," Cotchery said. "When you're losing like [we did in New York], those decisions have to be made. Do I go to the game or do I not go to the game? I know it's tough."
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Debian, SFLC Publish Patent Advice For Community Distros 63
An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ, a document meant to educate Free Software developers, and especially distribution editors, about software patent risks. The FAQ has been prepared by lawyers at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) at the request of and with input from the Debian Project. While the document does not constitute legal advice, it provides insights on dealing with software patents, which might be applicable to other community-driven Free Software distributions. The Debian Project maintains a critical stance towards software patents: we consider software patents a threat to Free Software and we believe they provide no advantages in promoting software innovation."


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Bradley Speech Team Showcased 66th Annual Norton Tournament
November 4, 2013
This past weekend the Bradley University Speech Team invited 47 universities from 21 states to our campus for the 66th Annual LE Norton Memorial Collegiate Speech Tournament. Over 600 students, coaches, and alumni came to Peoria to make the event a memorable one. Our students put on an amazing event serving as hosts to institutions of higher education from all across the county, all while learning immeasurable lessons in event planning, partnering with organizations, and public relations. Below you will find links to local coverage of the event along with an attached picture of today's front page of the Peoria Journal Star:
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It does seem like Biden does say some things that he doesn't think through, but that is a bit extreme calling him an idiot. He has helped us, and saying intimately is an ok way to say that, right? Maybe I've confused my own English.
I think what I am saying and what I have very thoroughly convinced many of my cohorts is that Obama is carrying on most of the same values that were normally considered republican ideas. Low taxes for the most of us, strong military and effective employment when provoked internationally. While at the same time embracing gay marriage, equal rights, healthcare, equal pay for women, accepting those 11 million illegals who live here anyway, immigration reform to keep it from happening again like after Reagan accepted all the illegals that were here. Essentially Obama looks like a moderate republican or a Socially liberal conservative.
I think for this country to go forward we need a progressive party that is leaning left and pushing for outrageous ideas about how much the government does for the people while at the same time having a sane conservative party that keeps it fair minded. That is not what we have but it is what I would desire.
Ask any true liberal and they will agree Obama is much more conservative than they would have guessed and it is not just because of the republican house or the crazy ass tea party. That is just the way Obama believes things should be in many instances.
HA! All the conservatives are Democrats these days!
All Hail the Green Party!
I was being funny, but there is no universe in which Libertarians are progressives. A lot of them are pissed off Republicans and they have been known to nominate virulent homophobes for president.
Say what you will about tree huggers, but they always support your right to be you and equal.
Or more specifically Goldman Sachs.
I read recently that the Libertarian Party is giving up Presidential Politics and will be focusing on local elections from this point forward.Originally Posted by JayHawk
I tried to find a link to support my statement, but they're still all over the place...even when "googled."
And it was (is?) entirely possible to serve in a President's Cabinet (Even if you were an opposing party's nominee). Last I check.
I differ in the semantics somewhat, in that Obama asked for the consultation because he was just as in the dark as the rest of America.Originally Posted by bankside
You gloss over the fact that Obama wasn't speaking to the Clinton's, his election team, his wife's election team, or having anything to do with President Clinton beyond a few tired campaign warriors who got Democrats elected, and needed a job.Originally Posted by banksise
Just trying to keep it real.
Except to fuck each other over, and to toss one of your caucus bases under a bus for "political expediency."Originally Posted by bankside
Sounds a lot like Republicans in a way, except they'd rather do it on a broader scale, while not having to make a commitment unless you're a hair on fire Right Wing Evangelical, our a tin foil hat wearing Tea Party Member.
And that.Originally Posted by bankside
Oh! Oh!Originally Posted by bankside
First off it would make a few heads explode to discover that many of us aren't as "far apart" as either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party would have us to believe.
Secondly, neither of the political parties, or their "media owners" (regardless of their political leaning) are eager for us to know that truth.
Let's face it!
Compromise, reconciliation, and Bipartisanship doesn't sell!
It doesn't help to raise campaign funds.
it doesn't keep us hating on each other as groups, or as Americans.
So yeah!
The sooner we get on THAT bandwagon, the sooner we might actually start seeing some change.
I'm must saying.
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
Before we blow too much sunshine up Christie's ass:
"I'm a guy who tells the truth all the time," Christie said Wednesday after visiting a volunteer fire department on Long Beach Island, which is still under a mandatory evacuation order. "If the president of the United States did something good, I'm going to say he did something good.
"But it doesn't take away for a minute the fact that I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney, that I traveled literally tens of thousands of miles for him, raised tens of millions of dollars for him and worked harder than any other surrogate in America, other than Paul Ryan," Christie said.
"I'm extraordinarily disappointed," he added. "I put a lot of time and effort into the Mitt Romney campaign from last October when I went to New Hampshire until my last trip for him the Friday before the storm when I went to North Carolina."
I don't remember this non-partisan Christie who didn't toe the party line either.
I can't name a democrat that didnt carry water for their party. That is what it is to align yourself. He still spoke genuinely and truthfully instead of complaining. If Christie had complained that Obama was ignoring his needs or being less than resourceful then the two million votes could have turned.
The two issues that could have toppled Obama if the republicans had a viable alternate was Benghazi and Sandy.
Whatever dems may or may not have done it's CERTAIN that Christie supported a hateful liar wholeheartedly. He wasn't forced and he's not recanting, in fact he himself says exactly that.
So lets not canonize the man just yet shall we.
Sugarpie, I'm not the one getting catty.
He's in my black book for the gay marriage veto. The difference between 9 states and a FIFTH of the country is so much bigger than NJ...
That we are capable only of being what we are, remains our unforgivable sin.
- Gene Wolfe
There's not fluster to be found around here. Christie is a Republican, he's going to stay that way, he had no problem with the platform or the Romney train wreck - he was extremely supportive. Yes he said some nice things about Obama, yes he had to.
He's not Governor of Georgia, what would happen to his career if he came out saying nasty things about Obama and FEMA?
Toast. That's what would have happened. Is he sincere? None of us know really - but as long as he WHOLEHEARTEDLY supports the Republican agenda, he is no friend to me.
Oh I never claimed he was a friend. I don't think any of these people are my friends. They court power and power alone. I am a stepping stone on their way. Obama executive ordered no deportations to solidify his Latino vote and he endorsed same sex marriage to grab our vote. It really is quite that simple.
There were plenty of horrible stories on the shore that could have been used to vilify a federal response. He saw a effective response and said so and he did not have to do that. He could have simply let it occur and said no kind words at all. None. He was genuine and I like that.
Why wasn't Christie's Veto overridden? There are gays everywhere, and local politicians are always the most pragmatic.
Well, I'll give you that he's not venal like Romney, stupid like Bush or a total loon like Bachman, but those are the people he chooses to run with.
There is no way on earth he didn't completely understand that to come out swinging at Obama in that situation was political suicide. Kudos for not being an idiot, there are some of his fellow Pubs who would have done just that.
Doesn't mean it wasn't good for Obama, but he didn't do it because his politics are somehow more palatable than they were back in September.
"How has the federal response been Governor"
"The President has allowed FEMA to adequately respond to New Jersey"
Then a few days later as the power outages continued make a demonstrated show of getting support to places getting less than adequate FEMA resources. It would have been easy as pie.
Christie was thoroughly behind the Party so he had their blessing in 2016. he knows the real math behind campaigns.
I hope you're right about Christie thinking there will be moderate Republicans in 4 year, I hope if that's the case that he's right. I'm not going to bet on it though.
Whatever his level of actual altruism. He was smart to do what he did politically speaking. Doing otherwise would have cost him.
Because in this country we have a two party system, in government. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country. They both propose possible solutions to our real problems.That is the essence of the problem. the factual bubble the republican party and half the nation is living inside.There are real knowable facts in the world. Let's accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let's move on from there. If the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we will all be better off as a nation.
Does the word "mandate" mean something different in american, like "to table a bill" or "liberal" or "poll tax" all mean different things to folks from the US.
He is there. He won most of the electricians in the electrical college. He has a mandate.
Mandate is kinda fuzzy, but it basically means super-majority, that authorizes a president to pursue a more partisan agenda.
Obama had a mandate his first term because he clobbered McCain in both the popular and Electoral votes, AND the democrats clobbered the Republicans in congress. In this election, Obama's election was a fair bit narrower, and dissatisfaction with his policies was still very high.
If he had won resoundingly in the popular vote, as he did the first time, he would have a mandate. But he didn't.
See this is where the fuzzy comes in because mandate implies more than just a big victory, it implies that the president in question was elected to DO something.
People will argue with the above for a variety of reasons, there is no specific definition and whether or not a President has a mandate will depend on how many people believe he has one.
It's kind of a consensus thing.
If Obama has a mandate now, it is to attempt more bipartisanship (a mandate the republicans also received), and focus more effort on jobs and the US' economic situation.
Also, it would be hard for Obama (or Romney for that matter) to be elected on a mandate to do anything, since neither gave us any specifics about what they wanted to do. The only overriding theme for both was Jobs, but any mandate would end there.
I don't think he does have a mandate, and if he does, I'd contend that it would be not to follow the right off the crazy cliff.
Scratch that, he has a negative mandate, a mandate not to be a whirling wing-nut asshat trying to drag us all back into the 1400's.
Republicans are not demoralized.
It will take a while to recoup. But they will be back -- just like the dem's came back from 2010.
^ I used to read 'Latin Inches', more my type1
Mr Obama has a mandate, and I agree with Paul Krugman that he should not be blackmailed by them.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/ec...ke-a-deal.htmlSo President Obama has to make a decision, almost immediately, about how to deal with continuing Republican obstruction. How far should he go in accommodating the G.O.P.'s demands?
My answer is, not far at all. Mr. Obama should ... hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy. And this is definitely no time to negotiate a "grand bargain" on the budget that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. ...
Why? Because Republicans are trying, for the third time since he took office, to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process. In particular, they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy... So they are, in effect, threatening to tank the economy unless their demands are met. ...
It's going to take a bit of time to see if the Republicans decide to either change their world view to erode the Democratic Party's dominance in cultural diversity, or they are going to double down and seek an aparthied Gov't.
The reality is that either they accept what this election means, or they will continue to lose relevance. The new young voter is turning out to be far more reliable than pollsters believed. They and the Women, specifically the Latino women, are going to be the big swing voting block in the coming years. The engaged youth vote is computer savvy and communicates in a way that overrides special interest money.
No matter how you cut it, the GOP has some house cleaning to do.
- It has to sever itself from Grover Norquist.
- It has to stop engaging in morality legislation,... rape abortion
- It has to stop fighting science.
- It has to separate church and state.
- It has to offer Attractive business legislation to small business in America.
One in six Latina's own their own business in America, and are conservative catholics. That they are out of the tent of the GOP because of papers please legislation, self deportation... blah blah.... That they are not part of the voting GOP block is incredible, and has everything to do with main street versus wall street, and legislation that affects their right to decide what to do with their own bodies.
Latina's are overwhelmingly anti abortion, yet pro choice. This nuanced change in the GOP position would make them more competitive.
There are ways for the GOP to ease into this, but either they do, or a new party will wind up being created to replace them. My intinct is that the GOP will survive, but to do so, it will have to shed the obstruction.
I guess I think that its about sixty percent possible that they can pull out of this and redirect.
I don't see how gay people will ever fit into their coalition, though. They have too much to lose if they disenfranchise the religious right.
There's no question that if the GOp doesn't play to the religious right, the latter will form a 'party of God' or some suck nonsense as they try to drag America to Armageddon. Which would be a good thing. The US needs to marginalize the extreme right and the extreme left, but give them enough room to have a voice so that they hopefully don't just start blowing shit up.
A mandate is when enough of the people support the president that if a member of Congress is opposing the president's program, the words "The White House is calling" should cause a cold sweat.
"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "
--Jonathan Rauch, Salon Magazine, March 13, 2000
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So, I came across this video, which is making its rounds on the old internet machine thing. It's got some serious NSFW language.
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How Do Find a Reliable Medium in the Adair IA Area?
How To Tell If a Psychic Is Genuine in Adair IA
People ask me how they can be sure that they are consulting a good psychic instead of one of the many ungenuine ones. One of the mistakes they make is in assuming that the ungenuine ones are those after a lot of money who are only after money – they could not be more wrong. There are a lot of ungenuine ones who are on an ego trip, there are others who want attention, there are others who like the power, some are mentally ill and need medicine to stop the voices they hear and like to believe are spirits, some are lonely and bored and would do anything to feel their life has some sort of purpose. They are as much fakes as the ones who lie and pretend to be good, knowing they are no good, just for the money near 50002 Iowa.
There are things you can watch out for so that you only get to speak to real psychics instead of those who lie and pretend to be – knowing they are not – and those who are deluded, strange, mentally ill or with some other ulterior motive.
Nowadays you can find people advertising on some of the major sales sites where they say pay me through my bank account and I will do you a reading. Most of these are not at all genuine and simply doing it as a paid hobby and chancing their arm. The proper ones would have a proper website, they would do it full time, they would not be offering it at ridiculously low prices because they are popular enough not to need to. They would be busy with regular clients who are happy to pay them properly. Which is another reason why you can be sure that the fakes are not going to be chatting away on Facebook or on other sites or forums giving free chats to potential clients or free consultations instead of paid ones.
Think of it like this, fellow Adair – if you were seeking a doctor, a plumber, a builder or any other professional person and you came across someone who did not have a proper address or website and was always instantly available and never busy with a client you would run a mile. So use the same rule of thumb with the clairvoyants.
Unfortunately, some of the clients who seek out psychics are also not genuine. They go looking for free consultations yet also want the person working for free to be the creme de la creme, the best of the best. Recently I saw a review of one of the more professional clairvoyants around, a properly qualified one, the woman who wrote the review said she had paid a lot for an email consultation with this guy. She then went back to have another email consultation with him but his price had gone up.She was so angry at this that she wrote bad reviews everywhere she could saying how terrible his readings were. Yet she wanted a second consultation – so it was a good consultation but became a crap one when the price went up. Consultations are either helpful and accurate or not, they cannot be good if they are cheap but crap if they cost more.
There are just as many ungenuine clients as there are readers. Some would write for a free reading nagging to get out of paying then turning nasty when told no, others would pay for one consultation and then keep nagging for further follow ups to be free, despite knowing that the person is a professional and all of their other clients pay properly each time.
Did you know that there are bodies that can test clairvoyants to see if they are true or false? That any clairvoyants can go to them and ask to be tested and either pass their tests and become verified and accredited or fail their tests and be thrown off their list? Did you also know that most so called psychics are not aware of these tests and those that are aware of them refuse to take these tests. The tests are not legally compulsory so they can just dodge them. But if they had your welfare at heart and if they really cared about giving good consultations they would take those tests and they would be genuine and big enough to stop offering consultations if they failed them. Anyone who is arrogant enough to say they do not need to be tested is unbelievable. Anyone who takes the tests and fails them and carries on advertising and offering is a fake and knows it. But they often try to convince themselves that as they need the money that makes it OK, or as they have a friend who tells them they are good all of the test results must be wrong.
A good clairvoyant will have years of experience in Adair IA
Young ones can show a lot of promise but the longer they have been reading the better they get. You can also get ones who have been around a long time but are rubbish and always have been and will never get any better.
- A good Adair clairvoyant will be caring, not just psychic, caring enough to be able to understand the clients, be tactful and kind to them, not too blunt, but honest too.
- A good clairvoyant will be able to help their clients. Some are excellent at reading the tarot cards or crystal ball but useless with people. They may be too judgemental or bossy.
- A good clairvoyant will have their own website, not desperate for clients, not eagerly waiting for one person to contact them.
- A really good clairvoyant will have more endorsements than simply being accredited to an organisation having passed their tests. In my case I have been through all of that successfully but have also passed the tests of newspapers, magazines and experts and have celebrity clients.
- A good clairvoyant will be good with words. If they umm and ahhh and pause too much and keep repeating themselves or cannot string a sentence together properly then it does not matter how clairvoyant they are, their consultations will not help anyone.
- A good clairvoyant will have a good grasp of psychology, many of the best have studied and trained in it and/or therapy.
- A good clairvoyant will be well educated and knowledgeable when it comes to the World and what goes on in it. Clients often ask for guidance and insight into their relationships and business matters. If the clairvoyant is no good at business and unable to sort out their own relationship they cannot help others.
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Eating Clean Foods: Eat Clean 2013
365 Days of Unprocessed Foods
With a New Year comes 365 days to make different choices or continue a healthier lifestyle. Eating clean foods and unprocessed foods is a big step toward achieving your goals.
We get that a lot of people see January 1 as a great time to tackle losing weight. Instead of promoting dieting, we thought it might be a good time to consider eating clean foods that are whole and unprocessed. We worked with three registered dietitians to craft weeklong menu plans to show that eating clean, unprocessed foods in 2013 can be delicious and easy.
Find the weeklong menu plan that seems to fit your lifestyle best and check it out.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney said Sunday that Republicans need to look to a new generation of leaders as the party deals with poor approval ratings following the government shutdown.
The former vice president said Republicans have faced challenges before and it's healthy for the party to work to rebuild.
The GOP "got whipped" in the 2012 presidential campaign, when President Barack Obama won re-election over Mitt Romney, and the party needs to build its base of supporters and find "first-class" candidates and turn to a new generation of leaders, Cheney told ABC's "This Week."
"It's not the first time we have had to go down this road and it's basically, I think, healthy for the party to be brought up short, say, OK, now it's time to go to work," Cheney said.
He predicted that his daughter, Liz Cheney, would win her Senate primary challenge against Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming next year. The former vice president said it was "simply not true" that he and Enzi were "fishing buddies," and asserted that Enzi has received the vast majority of his campaign funds from Washington-based political action committees.
"Washington is not going to elect the next senator from Wyoming. The people of Wyoming will elect that senator," Cheney said. He said his daughter's campaign is "going full speed. She's going to win."
Cheney's comment about Enzi not being a fishing buddy drew a response from Kristin Walker, an Enzi campaign spokeswoman. She said Enzi and the elder Cheney had anchored the One Fly Fishing event together in the state and most of their conversations focused on fishing. "Senator Enzi regrets the loss of any friendship. He thought he and Dick Cheney shared a love of fly fishing and Wyoming," Walker said.
Asked to name a prominent Republican who can attract Democrats and independent voters, Cheney said he was "not going to predict or endorse anybody. We've got a long way to go to the next presidential election."
On foreign policy matters, Cheney declined to weigh in on surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, saying he hadn't been regularly briefed in five years.
He expressed skepticism that the Obama administration would be able to force Iran to comply with demands that it show its nuclear program is peaceful. Asked if military action against Iran was "inevitable," Cheney said he had "trouble seeing how we're going to achieve our objective short of that."
Cheney faulted the Obama White House's handling of Middle East politics, saying the U.S. presence in the region had been "significantly diminished" in recent years. "I think our friends no longer count on us, no longer trust us and our adversaries don't fear us," he said.
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2012 Pacers Foundation Golf Classic
Pacers Foundation Golf Classic
by Eddie White
September 27, 2012
The Indiana Pacers Foundation Charity Golf Tournament, sponsored this year by Katz, Sapper & Miller, was held on Sept. 27 on one of central Indiana's most famous tracks—the Brickyard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Over 140 golfers came together for the annual golf classic to raise money for the Pacers Foundation, an organization set up to help children in need. Whether its contributions to groups that serve youth at-risk; scholarships to deserving students; free tickets to Pacers & Fever games; or a partnership with nonprofits, the Pacers Foundation has always been about helping Central Indiana youth.
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Since its inception the Pacers Foundation has given away more than $5.5 million in cash and tickets to the youth of central Indiana. And the Golf Classic, combined with an auction on site, is one of the major fund raisers.
The Pacers organization was well represented at the golf tournament. Pacers President Jim Morris and Pacers CFO & Tournament chair Kevin Bower were on hand in addition to Pacers Basketball president Donnie Walsh and GM Kevin Pritchard. Head coach Frank Vogel and all his assistant coaches were on hand as Vogel spent the day driving around the course playing a shot or two with each group.


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The Kohler K-T10301-4M-CP is a Polished Chrome Thermostatic Valve Trim that features a ergonomic Lever handle for easy control. This Valve Trim, from the Finial Collection, has a graceful classic design that will give you a nice elegant touch to your bathroom decor. This trim is constructed out of Brass construction construction that is enhanced with a beautiful Polished Chrome Finish, this valve trim will not corrode, rust, or tarnish through rigorous daily use. This valve trim features the ability to Create a personalized shower experience as you can run the water temperature within one half of a degree of the initial temperature that you set it at. This feature was designed mainly for your safety and not for comfort. This Thermostatic Valve Trim is the trim only you must purchase a Mastershower thermostatic valve in order for this product to function. Kohler, founded in 1873, is an innovative company dealing in both bath and kitchen products. They are a company that you can truly count on for quality products that will give you that bold look you have been looking for.
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Funny How All The Senators Supporting Anti-FCC Bill, Have Raised Lots Of Money From AT&T
from the just-saying dept
So, let's see. The bill's main sponsor is Senator Jim DeMint. Over the course of his career... AT&T is the second largest contributor to his campaigns. Ditto for Senator Tom Coburn. John Cornryn no doubt knows that AT&T is the 4th biggest contributor to his campaigns over the years, and Orrin Hatch must be happy that AT&T is the fifth largest contributor to his campaigns over the years (amusingly, AT&T is the only non-healthcare company in the top 8 on Hatch's list).
There are three other co-sponsors who don't have AT&T among their top contributors, but apparently they all want to start. If you drill down and look at campaign contributions this year all three -- John Ensign, Jeff Sessions and John Thune see AT&T appearing on their list of top contributors after being absent in previous years.
Funny how that works.
Now, of course, you could argue that AT&T contributes to politicians who have the same views as AT&T, rather than that these politicians are responding to AT&T's bidding. But, either way, it's hard to argue with a straight face that this particular bill has anything to do with protecting consumers, when it's pretty clearly designed to protect AT&T.
I've seen people suggest in the past that elected officials should have to wear "sponsorship patches," like Nascar racers, to show who funded their campaigns. While I think the idea was a joke, I have to admit, it's growing on me. Also, a special thanks to Karl Bode for inspiring me to write this post, in noting that none of the press coverage of the newly introduced bill seems to note the AT&T contributions to these Senators...


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Hey guys, I'm running into some trouble using the .show() and .hide() functions. I have 3 divs I am using as "buttons" and 3 divs with content. Of the content divs I only want to show one at a time depending on which "button" div was clicked on. I figured I would keep it light using jquery and css.
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Best Provision Co., Inc. Website

This web site was the first site I have ever created. A company located out of New Jersey contacted me, they were in deserate need to update their web site. After about four weeks of work, I finished this client-side website. It was written in xHTML, CSS3, and JavaScript using the jQuery library. No server-side code as this was specifically for client-side use only. I continue my work with the company as changes are needed, and I aspire to write more web applications for this website in the future.

Studio 4 Designs Website

This was a project I designed/developed my sophomore year for my Server-Side Web Development. It is a demo website for a website design company. It includes a newsletter, as well as a web application to manage files on the server as well as databases using mySQL and PHP. The entire site was validated HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript including the jQuery Library, and of course mySQL and PHP.

Dawn's My Favorite Deli Website

Dawn's My Favorite Deli is a very fun, and ongoing project. The owners contacted me and asked to design and develop them a web site for their newly purchased deli. The site is written in HTML5, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. A cool thing that I implemented on this site is the specials page. The deli owners have a GoogleDrive account on which is a document with all of their daily specials. Every day, they update the specials document on the Google Drive and the changes are instantly, and automatically updated on the website's specials page.

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Portfolio Makeover Week
Are you looking for tips on improving your portfolio? As part of Morningstar.com's Portfolio Makeover Week in May, director of personal finance Christine Benz will be making over five real-life portfolios to show how investors of all stripes may streamline and upgrade their holdings.
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Jason Stipp: I'm Jason Stipp for Morningstar. At the close of the first quarter, Morningstar's equity analysts characterized the market as fairly valued overall, but not so across the board with certain areas of opportunity. But you have to be selective. So if we are in a so-called stock-pickers' market, what are some funds that could benefit? Here with three notable ones is Morningstar's Christine Benz, our director of personal finance. Christine, thanks for joining me.
Christine Benz: Jason, it's great to be here.
Stipp: So our equity analysts do think the market is about fairly valued, but they still see some 5-star stock opportunities, some places where you might do better than the market in such an environment. [Managers of actively managed mutual funds] also tend to perennially say, "Oh, we are in a stock-pickers' market" because that's what they do, of course. But this time that could maybe validity?
Benz: It could. So, I think, you do have to be selective. I've been covering funds for, gosh, almost 20 years now, and I think if you invest with a manager with whom you have a lot of conviction and you've really done your due diligence on his or her process, you should feel comfortable investing with that manger, and comfortable with the possibility that he or she could outperform a market index over time.
Stipp: So you came today with three funds that you think are really notable. Stock-pickers have had success in this area. The first one is from Longleaf, and this is a fund that really doesn't look like the market at all.
Benz: It doesn't. In fact, I own Longleaf Partners Fund, and whenever I look at performance or the portfolio, I'm never quite sure what to expect. It could be at the top; it could be at the bottom. And when you do look at the portfolio, it's completely idiosyncratic and non-index-like. So in terms of its sector weightings, right now it's very heavily weighted toward the basic materials, financial-services and communication-services sectors, and notably underweight in the some of the defensive sectors that actually our Morningstar equity analysts think look relatively expensive right now. So I think it's a good fund.
You have to be prepared, however, for these periods where it looks awful relative to its peers, relative to the market benchmark, where it has absolute losses that are high. So you have to be prepared for that, you have to be prepared to hang on or even add more during those periods. I noticed that it's got [a Morningstar Rating for funds of] 1 star currently, meaning that its performance has been super-streaky and it hasn't necessarily rewarded investors for that streakiness. But it also gets a Gold Analyst Rating, and Morningstar analysts like its stewardship, for example, the fact that the managers invest heavily in the fund and that they treat shareholders like owners. And the analysts like the consistency with which they employ their process. I think there is a lot to like under the hood if you can get past the weak near-term performance numbers.
Stipp: A second fund that you brought today may behave a bit more like a core fund, and that's from Primecap, its Primecap Odyssey Stock.
Benz: That's right. This is a fund run by the great Primecap team that runs some funds for Vanguard, as well as some of its own branded funds. This fund is more core than some of the other Primecap Odyssey funds that they run. So in terms of its sector weightings, it hews more closely to the index, but it does use that patient contrarian growth strategy that this team is known for. It also does have a big emphasis on the health-care sector and on the technology sector, where these managers have historically distinguished themselves. One thing we like about this fund is that even though it's not a Vanguard fund, its expenses are very, very low for an actively managed product. We think that helps stack the deck in its favor. It should be a long-term tailwind for the fund. And one reason I recommended it, especially right now, over some of the other Primecap Odyssey funds is that it hasn't done quite as well. It's done great year to date, but in 2012 it looked a little bit slow. It's not as aggressive as some of its siblings, so I'm a little more comfortable recommending it because its recent performance hasn't been quite as white hot as some of its peers, some of its siblings.
Stipp: If you're looking for some expertise in stock-picking on a global scale, you recommend Oakmark Global Select. This is run by a couple of very notable managers, one of whom was our Manager of the Decade a couple of years ago.
Benz: David Herro was our Manager of the Decade for international-equity funds. He runs half of Oakmark Global Select. Bill Nygren, the noted stock-picker who runs Oakmark Select, which is a domestic-equity fund, runs the other half or little less than a half. This fund is really kind of a best-ideas fund for these two great managers. The idea is that they pack a lot of assets behind their individual holdings. This is another fund where I have a lot of comfort recommending it in a market that might be fully valued because they do look for companies that are trading at a discount to what they think they are worth. That's very similar to how our equity analysts think about evaluating companies' prospects. I think it's a sensible way to do it, and knowing that they have packed a lot of assets behind one of these names gives me some confidence that it is reasonably valued. So I think that this fund has a lot going for it. It will be streaky because it is quite concentrated in individual holdings, but I think it's a good pick for someone who is looking for a globalized portfolio.
Stipp: You're very inclined to believe that we are in a stock-pickers' market; three notable funds definitely worth a closer look by investors. Christine, thanks for bringing those ideas today.
Benz: Thank you, Jason.
Stipp: For Morningstar, I'm Jason Stipp. Thanks for watching.


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Residence Hotel Montegargnano
Residence Hotel Montegargnano has a hillside location in Sasso in Gargnano, overlooking Lake Garda and the surrounding mountains. It features a seasonal outdoor pool and free Wi-Fi in public areas. The Montegargnano offers both rooms and chalets. While rooms include free Wi-Fi and a private bathroom, the rustic chalets come with a private patio and fully equipped kitchen. A sweet and savoury continental buffet breakfast can be enjoyed daily at the Montegargnano. The restaurant includes a bar and serves traditional cuisine from the region. Hiking trails start right on the doorstep, and the area is also ideal for cycling tours. Gargnano and the shore of Lake Garda are a 15-minute drive from Hotel Montegargnano Residence.


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Sweet Pineapple Cider Recipe
I think the best thing about this recipe is that you can make it hours ahead of time so you can spend more time with your guests. And you can keep it warm on the stovetop or in a slow cooker throughout the party. —Mary Price, Youngstown, Ohio
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- 2 small apples, divided
- 10 whole cloves
- 1 bottle (48 ounces) unsweetened apple juice
- 4 cans (6 ounces each) unsweetened pineapple juice
- 2 cinnamon sticks (3 inches)
- Core and cut one apple into 10 slices. Insert one clove into each slice. In a Dutch oven, combine juices. Add apple slices and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until flavors are blended.
- Discard apple slices and cinnamon sticks. Core and cut remaining apple into 12 slices. Ladle cider into mugs; garnish with apple slices. Serve warm. Yield: 12 servings (3/4 cup each).
Originally published as Sweet Pineapple Cider in Healthy Cooking October/November 2012, p14
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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotelHarbor-front colonial grandeur
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Rejuvenated legend
This hotel evokes 1920s colonial grandeur in Kowloon's Golden Mile shopping mecca, within 2 blocks of the Star Ferry, cultural center, and museums, and convenient to trains and ferries to China.
Spa, fine dining
The hotel features a Roman-themed spa, sundeck with harbor views, and 7 restaurants, including French haute cuisine in Gaddi's. Designer shops are located off the lobby.
European elegance
High-ceilinged, European-style rooms feature subtle Asian accents, DVD, free WiFi, and bedside control of curtains, TV, complimentary long-distance calls via VOIP, air conditioning, and lighting. Additional beds are also available (except for superior rooms).Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Opens in a new window.
The Peninsula Hong Kong
Renovations & Closures
- Dining venue
- Swimming pool
- One of the dining venues
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel, opened in 1928, evokes colonial history, from the crisply attired bell staff to the framed photos of past celebrity guests. The lobby retains its 1920s grandeur and ambiance, while the 30-story tower extension features extensive recreational facilities, including a fitness center with yoga classes, a Roman-style swimming pool with sundeck, the 12,000-square-foot Peninsula Spa with sauna and steam room, the Felix entertainment complex designed by Philippe Starck, and a helipad with its own check-in lounge.
International designer brand boutiques are located off the lobby. A fleet of 14 Rolls-Royce limousines is available for luxurious airport transfers, and 2 MINI Cooper S Clubmen reflect the legendary hotel's youthful spirit, while the hotel's own helicopter service provides the ultimate in speed and style.
Free WiFi, laundry facilities, 24-hour room service, and a conference center are on site. There are 7 onsite restaurants, a bar/lounge, and a poolside bar. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center, conference space, and meeting rooms. Valet parking (surcharge) is available onsite.
- Express check-in
- Library
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Rooftop terrace
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Poolside bar
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Conference space
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Meeting rooms 7
- Express check-out
- Year Built 1928
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Coffee shop or café
- Steam room
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Sauna
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Luggage storage
- Hair salon
- Number of restaurants - 7
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Snack bar/deli
- Conference center
- Shopping on site
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 300
- Number of floors - 30
- Arcade/game room
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Free long-distance calls
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Room service (24 hours)
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Free international calls
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Rainfall showerhead
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- First-run movies
- Free bottled water
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- iPod docking station
- Private spa tub
- In-room massage available
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Pillow menu
- Espresso maker
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
Where to Eat
Gaddi's - French haute cuisine with a fine wine list. Rare artworks including pieces by Marc Chagall and George Chinnery, as well as a 16th-century Chinese screen and antique silverware dating from the hotel's opening in 1928. Live soft jazz in the evenings, and a small dance floor. Open for dinner and lunch Monday to Saturday.
The Verandah - Mediterranean cuisine in a relaxed setting overlooking the forecourt fountain. Ceiling fans and palms recreate 1930s-era tropical elegance. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as weekend afternoon tea.
Chesa - A little piece of Switzerland in Hong Kong since 1965. Modeled after an Alpine chalet and specializing in Swiss regional specialties, particularly raclette and fondue. Open for lunch and dinner.
Spring Moon - A recreation of how the hotel's authentic Cantonese restaurant would have looked in 1928, with stained glass, wood paneling, and art-deco highlights. Tea masters match dim sum specialties to a large selection of Chinese teas. Open for lunch and dinner.
Felix - Designed with an offbeat sense of humor by Philippe Starck. Several themes under one roof, including the Wine Bar, Balcony, American Bar, and Crazy Box. Pacific Rim cuisine, and panoramic harbor and city views. Open every night.
Imasa - Contemporary Japanese cuisine with tableside preparation of sushi and tempura. Fresh seasonal ingredients are flown from Japan. Open for lunch and dinner.
The Bar - A relaxed setting for a quiet drink, with deep armchairs and wicker furniture evoking images of Somerset Maugham. Open late afternoon to midnight.
The Lobby - Nothing is more evocative of the olden days of Hong Kong than Afternoon Tea beneath the neo-classical arches of The Peninsula Lobby. With The Lobby Strings for musical company, your toughest decision will be when to visit this most elegant rendezvous for a drink or a meal.
Nearby Things to Do
The Roman-themed Peninsula Spa features a 60-foot pool with waterfall, two spa tubs, and a sundeck overlooking the harbor. A retractable glass screen allows year-round use. The health center offers extensive facilities, including saunas, steam rooms, spa tubs, and massage rooms. Towels, robes, and work-out wear are available for guests' use.
Jogging is available along the promenade, opposite, or in Kowloon Park, three blocks away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Helicopter/airplane tours on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
Located on the 7th and 9th floors, the Peninsula Spa offers a tranquil oasis in bustling Hong Kong. All treatments include use of thermal suites to relax, cleanse, and prepare the body for treatments, as well as use of relaxation lounges overlooking the city's famous Victoria Harbour and skyline. Contemporary design married with elements of traditional Chinese décor create a spacious and inviting getaway.
The spa menu reflects an influence of Eastern, Ayurvedic, and modern European concepts. Treatment therapists undergo intensive training to provide services and packages that seamlessly blend together, promoting a true retreat for the body and mind.
Peninsula Ceremonies – Signature Body Treatments (90 minutes):
This array of treatment ceremonies, especially designed for The Peninsula Spa, is intricate, sophisticated, and holistic. Begin with a Peninsula Tea Ceremony, an in-depth consultation, and a fresh ginger foot buff to promote spiritual grounding. A salt and oil body scrub follows, before warm oils are poured onto the body and hot volcanic basalt lava stones are used for intensive massage. Jade stones massaged on the forehead and scalp refresh the skin and restore tonicity. Herbal concentrates blended with heated body masks of oshadi clay, marine algae, or mud are smoothed on, and the body cocooned in natural linens. Acupressure facial massage helps revitalise the skin, and peace of mind is achieved with a luxurious Oriental head massage.
Ayurvedic Influence – Chakra Balancing with Volcanic Stones (90 minutes):
An herbal tea infusion and foot cleansing ritual begin the ceremony. Skin brushing, exfoliation and an express facial begin the treatment. Specific placement of volcanic stones on the energy centers achieves new balance and grounding. A total body massage with aromatherapy oils and Ayurvedic herbal concentrate rebalance and re-energise.
Detoxifier Massage (50 or 80 minutes):
Detoxifying body oil is used with a blend of citrus oils, which have natural diuretic properties to flush away toxins.
Destressor Massage (50 or 80 mintues):
Specially blended soothing aromatherapy oils are used, which have relaxing and calming properties to help guests destress.
Jet-Lag Eliminator Massage (50 or 80 minutes):
This treatment helps to rebalance energy levels by lifting spirits with energising oil and relaxing the body into untroubled sleep with soothing oils.
- Number of treatment rooms 14
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Sauna in spa
- Steam room in spa
- Thai massage
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Valet parking fee: HKD 800 per night
Hotel Name
- Hong Kong Peninsula
- Peninsula Hong Kong
- Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong
- Peninsula Hong Kong Hotel Kowloon
- Peninsula Hong Kong Hotel
- Peninsula Hong Kong Kowloon
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work.
Awards & Affiliations
- The Peninsula Hong Kong is listed in the 2017 Travel + Leisure 500.
- The property is a member of Historic Hotels of the World.


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The Noodle And Dumpling Chronicles
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Like an Italian with a bowl of spaghetti or tortellini, nothing satisfies a Korean more than eating a bowl of noodles or dumplings. In Korea, slurping is not only permitted, it is considered a compliment to the cook. This episode features a restaurant in Seoul known for its nenngymyun, an unusual dish of elastic buckwheat noodles served with ice-cold beef broth. Marja also visits a spot known for the best kalgooksu, or hand-cut noodles, and another beloved restaurant famous for its hefty portions of mandoo (dumplings) . At home in New York, Marja prepares jajangmyeon her favorite comfort food of chewy noodles with savory black bean sauce. Both Marja and Jean-Georges interpret refreshingly cold noodle soups and Jean-Georges puts his spin on chapchae, the popular Korean noodle and vegetable stir-fry. Let the slurping begin.
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