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Teen Jumps Into Pool to Save Her Drowning Dog While Filming a TikTok Video
Her dogs were walking around the pool while she filmed herself dancing. She turned around when she heard a splash.
A teen is going viral on TikTok for a video in which she jumps into a pool to save her drowning dog. In the video, Cadence Beavers sets her phone up by a pool and starts to dance. Several dogs are roaming around the pool, and all of a sudden, one jumps in and immediately sinks to the bottom.
Cadence apparently hears the splash because she springs into action. She turns around, sees the dog in the pool, quickly kicks off her shoes, jumps in, and helps the dog to the surface. The whole video is just a few seconds long, but it's been liked over two million times.
"Omfg saved my dog and my shoes," Cadence captioned the video, adding hashtags including "#icantstopshaking" and "she's okay."
Cadence told In the Know, "I didn't know that all dogs couldn't swim so I heard the splash and I turned around and then it clicked that [MJ] was just sinking to the bottom like a rock.
"I totally forgot I was even making a TikTok!" she continued. "It was just my instincts to take off my shoes and check for my phone and them jump in quickly." It really does look scary. MJ, the dog, sinks right to the bottom of the pool. Even though it looks like she was slowly making her way up, Cadence was scared that she had already drowned.
But don't worry. MJ was perfectly fine, probably thanks to Cadence's quick action. She told In the Know, "I was so scared [MJ] was gonna choke on water but she was perfectly fine as soon as we got out. I'm just so glad MJ is OK and I can't believe all that happened on camera."
Indeed, it kind of looks too convenient to be true. But it did really happen. And so many people became invested in the dog's wellbeing. "So glad you were there [at] the right time," one person wrote.
"I was stressing seeing the doggo being under for so long," another wrote. "Good job, girl." I'm sure it was a total relief that MJ was OK.
Since Cadence posted that video, she's gone back to posting videos of herself doing dances by the pool, this time with no dogs around. Also, never fear. She posted an update with her and MJ to show everyone that she came out of this just fine.
In it, she updates everyone on the status of not only MJ but all her belongings too. She also addresses some hate she's gotten since posting the video. "Not only is my dog safe," she says, "my shoes are fine. My phone's fine. I had no idea until that day that some dogs didn't know how to swim.
"So whoever's mad because it was my natural instinct to take off my shoes before I jumped in, you can stay mad because her head wasn't even under the water for five seconds, and her head was popped up before I even jumped in. And second of all, her live was saved ultimately.
"Why can't that just be what it is and be a good thing... You still find something to be mad at. You can stay mad because we're OK."
She then clarified that there is indeed a gate around the pool. The dogs were only allowed in there because she was in there with them.
Cadence then said, "Just because I took off my shoes and checked if my phone was in my pocket doesn't mean I value those things more than my animals and my dogs."
Her dog is fine. She did the right thing. Stop hating on the TikTok teen who saved her dog!


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My hosting service just told me to update to WordPress 2.7 — as the previous version had known security holes. So I did, and after I upgraded, the blog itself broke.
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My son just sent me email that said only, "it happened." Digg.com passed Slashdot in Alexa (probably getting Alexa some new users along the way as well).
by Jeff Jarvis
My son just sent me email that said only, "it happened." Digg.com passed Slashdot in Alexa (probably getting Alexa some new users along the way as well).
Here's a conference I wish I could attend: the prediction markets summit.
Smart mobs, swarms, information markets, crowd wisdom, communities, trade exchanges social networks and knowledge markets — all are getting a lot of popular attention today. Why? Because they are highly effective.
Top knowledge scientists, information market practitioners, business school professors, think tanks and prediction market tool providers are converging for a one-day Summit in San Francisco/Silicon Valley on Prediction Markets.
It's not just about predictions, of course. It's about the crowd's ability to define relevance (see: Google) and taste (see: Flickr interestingness) and news (Digg.com) and topics (Del.icio.us).
: There's a company devoted to prediction markets.
I brought David Weinberger in to meet some folks last week for a conversation about tagging and I was lucky enough to hear his spiel about the Dewey decimal system and the limitations we had when knowledge was trapped on paper. David just wrote about this for the Boston Globe:
The real challenge to traditional publishing today comes not from the digitizing of books, then, but from the very nature of the Web itself. Using metadata to assemble ideas and content from multiple sources, online readers become not passive recipients of bound ideas but active librarians, reviewers, anthologists, editors, commentators, even (re)publishers. Perhaps that's what truly scares publishers and authors about Google Print.


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Eugenio Derbez may not be a household name in the US, but he's no stranger to audiences south of the boarder. And that explains why How to Be a Latin Lover beat out Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at the box office in Mexico on its opening week. The Lover earned $7 million, while Guardians brought in $2.5 million.
This English language film (which does have some Spanish dialogue with English subtitles) also stars Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Raphael Alejandro, Michael Cera, Rob Corddry, Mckenna Grace, Rob Huebel, Rob Riggle, Raquel Welch and Linda Lavin.
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text: If you do an impersonation of somebody, do you owe them a formal and sincere apology? Oh, absolutely. This is the root of all fun and the ultimate denouement of any joke. For example, Ana Gasteyer, whose impression of Martha Stewart has apparently continued to perplex restaurateurs and recent college graduates, apologizes. It's a good thing.


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The Kansas City Chiefs put out a dominating performance in Week 1 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, pitching a defensive shutout with the only Jaguars points in the game coming off a blocked punt. The Chiefs won the game 28-2 and one Chief in particular is being honored.
Justin Houston, who stood out among one of the Chiefs best defensive efforts in recent memory, has been awarded the AFC player of the week award from the NFL.
AFC Defensive Player of Week 1: @KCChiefs LB Justin Houston (@JHouston50)— Randall Liu (@RLiuNFL) September 11, 2013
Hooray! Celebrate! Houston ended with three sacks on Sunday in Jacksonville, including one over No. 2 overall pick Luke Joeckel. Houston is tied for the NFL lead in sacks right now with three. He appears primed to have a monster season and if he keeps it up he will challenge the sack title this year.
Unfortunately, Houston has to share this AFC player of the week award with Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning, who won the offensive version of the award.
Rotoworld recently listed the Dallas Cowboys, the Chiefs Week 2 opponent, as one of three offensive lines that are in trouble.
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Researchers: Prof. Michal Yerushalmy and Dr. Shai Olsher
The Mathematics Education Research and Innovation Center (MERI), headed by Prof. Michal Yerushalmy, is dedicated to exploring how technology can help improve mathematics education - through novel ways of learning and teaching. MERI's research team explores the roles of technology in this process, striving to understand how technology relates to broader educational factors.
The research team at MERI invests extensive resources into innovating technologies that support mathematics education for teachers and students in schools and universities.
Advancing Technology for Mathematics Education
The research team has developed STEP - Seeing The Entire Picture, an automatic formative assessment platform in mathematics that helps teachers and students make use of rich and interactive assignments in the classroom in order to empower the teacher's decision making in real time – during the actual course of the lesson.
The STEP platform is implemented with the use of personal devices (mobile phones, tablets, laptops, personal computers) and provides the teacher with an automatic and accessible analysis of the students' answers to mathematics exercises. The processed data includes an automated analysis of different mathematical and didactical aspects. This allows the teacher to base teaching on the students' answers.
Through the STEP platform, teachers can prepare assignments that encourage the students to meaningfully engage with mathematics, immediately see each of the students' work and receive visual analyses of their solutions. Beyond providing a correct/incorrect overview for each student's work and locating familiar mistakes through predetermined criteria, STEP also analyzes the student's working methods, so that even partial solutions submitted by the student are used to present recommended work methods and illuminate creative and diverse answers for the same assignment.
The visual representation of data for the teacher is provided in an easily accessible interface, so that the teacher is able to make decisions based on information from a student's work – empowering formative assessment par excellence.
The student's accessible working environment with STEP allows independent work, in couples or in groups on mathematical assignments, which include various demonstrational means. The student's working environment is private, enabling the system to analyze only answers submitted, encouraging creative and independent thinking, which can only exist in a free and private environment.
Big Data for Pedagogic Analysis:
STEP data enables analysis and representation of evolving OER (open educational resources) as well as student mathematical comprehension, achievement and learning at the level of classroom, school and district, while protecting student privacy.
Research Status
The STEP system is currently being tested in universities and school systems in the US, Italy and China.
Thanks to generous funding from the Trump foundation, the system is also being implemented in Israel in numerous school systems and with the collaboration of several secondary school teachers. The grant enables implementation with 150 practicing teachers and preservice student-teachers in universities and colleges.
In addition, the STEP system is being used at MERI as a learning and research environment, to further examine how technology can improve education – and especially mathematics education – through new avenues of instruction and learning.
Partnership Opportunities
MERI is currently seeking partnerships to:
• Advance evaluation of the product for school systems
• Design content suitable for specific systems and countries
• Open and support European educational markets
MERI - Mathematics Education Research and Innovation Center website
Related pages
Michal Yerushalmy, Prof.- researcher page


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The question "How real are our photographs?" has never been more topical than it is now. Perhaps our digital photos have the potential to be MORE "real" than film-based photos?
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that question I'd be a rich man! And there's irony in my normal pat answer - what I'm saying is exactly what the questioner is expecting, but what I'm really meaning is something very different! To avoid a time-consuming and mostly pointless debate my usual answer is, of course, "No, and yes". Which almost always produces the predictable "Hah, I thought so!". If I think the questioner is serious and seeking enlightenment - rather than just reinforcement of their entrenched beliefs - I give them the same overall answer, albeit in a longer and more complete form: "No, like any photograph it is not real. But, yes, I did use Photoshop to partially correct the image and to increase its reality." And then the fun begins...
What I'm driving at is that there is a general preconceived notion circulating that digital photography is somehow less "real" than traditional film photography. My belief is that this notion begins with an erroneous assumption, i.e., that ANY photographic image is an accurate record of reality. And I believe the conclusion of film being the "more real" image recording medium is wrong as often as it is right. I believe digital photography can produce final images that are MORE accurate reflections of reality than film images, especially in the realm of nature photography.
Photographic images are often considered to fall into one of two categories: documentary images or fine art images. Documentary images are assumed to be reasonably accurate reflections of reality. The degree to which fine art images are expected to conform to this "reflection-of-reality" standard is usually more relaxed. I contend that the boundary between documentary and fine art images is extremely arbitrary and ignores a large number of "reality-modifying" factors employed in all photography.
There are a number of reality-modifying factors that reside largely within our cameras. Some are unique to film photography and some are unique to digital photography, but most are available to both digital and film photography.
Film Choice: Film photographers have a wide variety of film types available to them, and each has its own unique characteristics. For example, film types vary in grain, contrast, colour balance, and overall colour saturation in predictable ways. And photographers have long matched film type to photographic task, and not always with the goal of "maximizing reality." In nature photography, Fuji's Velvia has long been the number one film of choice. It is a super-saturated, high contrast, extremely fine grain colour slide film which carries a light red or magenta overall colour cast. When projected, Velvia slides are often visually stunning and have an almost 3D look - if you want shockingly blue skies, astonishing greens, and "more-alive-than-real-life" images, Velvia is the film for you! But real? Not a hope! A tagline on a current (as of January 13, 2007) brochure on Fuji's website says it all: "COLOR THAT GOES BEYOND THE IMAGINATION."
Lens Choice: Film and digital SLR cameras (and many medium format cameras) offer interchangeable lenses with different focal lengths. Short focal length lenses provide a wide angle of view (which is why they're commonly called wide-angle lenses) and tend to produce images with crisp, clear focus from foreground to background (take this mountain scene, for example). But, they also tend to exaggerate the distance between objects in the immediate foreground and the distant background. They also tend to make objects appear to be further from the viewer than they actually are.
In contrast, telephoto lenses do pretty much the opposite: they bring objects closer, compress the apparent distance between objects in foreground and background, and tend to have a more limited foreground-background "zone of sharp focus" (or "depth of field"). Super-telephoto lens (those of a focal length of about 400 mm or longer in 35 mm SLR standards) are wonderful at isolating a subject, but the resultant image can be dramatically different from what an observer would see with the unaided eye.
Aperture Choice: The size of the opening of a lenses diaphragm is known as its aperture, and changing it impacts the amount of light striking the camera's recording medium. This, in turn, has a direct impact on the photographer's shutter speed and depth of field. Using wide apertures has the effect of reducing the depth of field of the image, which in turn allows the photographer to isolate the subject from its surroundings. This aperture-related effect of keeping the subject in sharp focus but throwing the background (or foreground) out of focus is more pronounced with telephoto or super-telephoto lenses. It can make for striking images (check out this Grizzly Bear or this Common Redpoll or this Tree Swallow). With images like these the viewer has little choice but be drawn to the subject. But, the resulting image differs drastically from what your eye recorded at the time of exposure. Your eye simply does not throw the background this much out of focus (which is probably a good thing or our ancestors probably wouldn't have noticed that sabre-toothed tiger until it was too late!). Stated another way - our eye never pulls the subject as much out of context as a good telephoto lens can!
Incidentally, serious nature photographers seek out lenses with soft and smooth out-of-focus zones. The term "bokeh" is used to describe this characteristic - if the out-of-focus zones are very smooth and very soft the lens is said to have "good bokeh." And, lenses with good bokeh tend to be very expensive. Ironically, these photographers (myself included) are really paying more for a lens that produces images that are less realistic!
Shutter Speed Choice: When photographing moving objects the act of choosing a specific shutter speed has a direct impact on how that subject is perceived by the viewer, and definitely impacts on the degree to which the image mimics reality. Extremely high shutter speeds (of about 1/1000s or less) can provide tack-sharp images of moving subjects that show detail far beyond what a human eye can perceive. I'm sure most of us can remember those images of a bullet emerging from the side of an apple that appeared in popular magazines and science textbooks. Your naked eye could never capture this image, and while these type of images are fascinating, they represent an extension of our visual reality (assuming that the ability of our unaided eye to capture images shapes our perception of reality).
Choosing extremely slow shutter speeds also produces images that can be visually interesting, but the images differ from what we would have perceived with our eye. We're probably all familiar with creatively blurred images of runners (or birds in flight) or of those soft, silky waterfalls, all of which are produced by slow shutter speeds. Creative? Definitely. Visually pleasing? Hopefully. Accurate reflections of what we can see with our eye? Decidedly not!
Overall Exposure Choice: Any camera that can have its overall exposure manipulated by the photographer allows manipulation of the final image of that scene. We can produce images that are not only darker or lighter than the original, but also scenes with more or less colour saturation. And, in the hands of a competent photographer, the mood of the scene, and our emotional response to it, can be dramatically modified.
Optical Lens filters: SLR and medium format camera users, and especially those shooting black and white negatives, understand the profound effect that filters that are placed in front of the lens can have. Everything from overall contrast to colour balance to reflection reduction to tonal range - and more - can be manipulated through careful use of optical filters.
I have little experience in a traditional darkroom - at best only a tiny fraction of the time I've spent within my digital darkroom. But, if you have any doubt about how much film-based images can be manipulated just pick up and skim through any in-depth treatment of the zone system employed by many serious black and white aficionados (e.g., The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography by Chris Johnson or Beyond the Zone System, Fourth Edition by Phil Davis). The photographer can have a huge impact during film "development" (by choice of developer times and dilutions, actual chemical choice, etc.) or during print production (through paper choice, lightening or darkening specific regions using dodging or burning techniques, etc.).
Digital photographers have access to virtually all of the reality-shaping tools found in a traditional darkroom, plus many new ones. And, these tools do tend to be more readily available, and fall into more hands, than did those found in a traditional darkroom. But the vast majority of the images in the hands of the bulk of today's recreational digital photographers rarely see the light of day, or, if they do, normally have an audience base limited to a small group of victims (normally family and friends/soon-to-be-ex-friends). And, only a small subset of today's consumer-level digital photographers actually have the ability to open an image in Photoshop, let alone successfully (or convincingly) manipulate it. So, I would argue, the millions of the digitally-manipulated images of amateur digital photographers have minimal impact on public perception of the reality of digital images.
So what's my point? Simply this: NO photograph, whether film-based or digital, should be considered an accurate reflection of reality. All photography is a creative endeavor, and all photographs - including both documentary and fine art images - stray to a varying degree from reality.
Another interesting assumption made by many digital photography skeptics, and especially of dyed-in-the-wool film photographers, is that any digital manipulation of an image is in the direction of reality reduction (as opposed to in the direction of reality augmentation)! The reality is that digital images have the potential to be more accurate reflections of reality than film-based images. I believe there are many reasons for this, but I'll limit my argument to one aspect of an image - the brightness (or dynamic) range of an image. And while I'll focus primarily on nature photography, I believe the same argument applies to other photographic disciplines.
Dynamic range refers to the brightness range of a scene or photograph. While you can find different estimates of the limits of human eye's ability to record image detail over a brightness range, most sources suggest that the human eye can record detail over a brightness range of at least 2000x. This means that we can simultaneously see detail in shadows and highlight areas that differ by a factor of 2000x in brightness. In photographic terms, we can say that our eyes have a dynamic range of about 11 f-stops.
But what do our cameras see? With film cameras it varies with the film type. Some black and white films can capture detail over a brightness range of 1000x (they're normally rated as having a dynamic range of about 8 to 10 f-stops). Colour print film doesn't stack up quite so well. Kodak Gold print film (which is a high quality film) can capture a brightness range of only about 128x (7 f-stops of dynamic range). But most serious nature photographers shoot slides, and the preferred film is Fuji's Velvia. How does it stack up in this single parameter? Not so well - Velvia can only record detail over a dynamic range of about 32x to 64x (5 to 6 f-stops). Does this mean that images shot with Velvia capture only 10 to 20% of what contributes to our impression of a scene? Of course not - most of what we perceive in a scene IS in a small brightness range and, although the detail is technically visible in both dark shadows as well as in well-lit portions of a scene, we tend to ignore a LOT of that detail. Our eyes and brain tend to focus on a very small subset of any scene.
How about digital cameras? If you're shooting JPEG images (which are saved by your camera as 8-bit images) you do a little better than colour print film, but not as well as black and white prints. JPEG's capture detail over a dynamic range of 256x to 512x (8-9 f-stops). You do better if you record RAW images, which are normally captured and stored by your camera as 12-bit images (and can be converted to 16-bit TIFF files). RAW images can capture detail over a dynamic range of 2000x (11 f-stops). Hey...this closely mimics the human eye (you say)! Yep. By the way, if you doubt me (as a sales manager from Fuji did during a recent seminar I gave), feel free to check out the dynamic range numbers that are readily available (two good starting points for the technically inclined are www.normankoren.com and www.clarkvision.com).
Now is the time for a film diehard to go red in the face and scream "...but you'll always blow out the highlights with digital capture" (just like the Fuji sales rep did). Yep, you're right - but only if the photographer doesn't know what she or he is doing! The solution with digital is simple - shoot RAW images, expose for the highlights, and process for the shadows. Using Photoshop's "Merge to HDR" command or other multiple-RAW-conversions-with-compositing-and-merging techniques (which I like to use) you can MANIPULATE the image to much more closely mimic the brightness range that you saw! And you're manipulating that image TOWARD REALITY! How 'bout that!
So why does your local nature photography club accept film submissions in ALL their categories of competition and digital submissions only in a smaller set of categories? It's hard to say. Maybe they're just trying to protect their remaining members who haven't (or won't) try shooting digitally. Perhaps they're simply resistant to change. Or perhaps they just haven't read this commentary yet! The ultimate irony is that by not accepting digital images they're inadvertently saying "...but we just don't want to accept images that are THAT realistic"!
January 12, 2007.
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I read both your articles regarding "digital manipulation" and "digital reality" with interest as these two subjects (more or less one central theme) have been debated for the past few years with no apparent resolution. You raise a few good points and I appreciate your effort in trying to settle the discussion. When I first started shooting digital I had similar questions of my own work and, through the club and colleagues such as yourself, debated the issues but the answers avoided me.
However, in the past year or so I have shoved the debate into the closet and really could care less about the final outcome. You talk about honesty and that is the really the gist of the whole matter. But how honest do we need to be?
If I were a photo-journalist then I would certainly feel obligated to tell the true story. No objects removed; no objects inserted - the scene would represent what the individual experienced at the time. Sure the photographer would be allowed to clean up the image by removing dust spots (they weren't in the scene anyhow) and to crop the image to reinforce what he wanted to portray. State the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
However, I see myself as an an artist and, as an artist, I have can state that I have "artist liberty". I capture the scene with my camera and, for the most part, very little change is required. Afterall, it was the dynamics of the scene that compelled me to take the shot in the first place. However, I feel that it is acceptable to make adjustments to the image to improve the final product. I am creating art where mother nature was the source of inspiration and Nikon and Photoshop are my pallet and brushes. The boundary for me is where do my artist liberties end and false storytelling begin. As a rule I will:
- adjust contrast and saturation to improve the feel of the scene and to better define the subject;
- balance exposure through the scene;
- remove any dust spots on the image;
- crop the image to add dynamics, improve the scene and to remove unwanted objects;
- remove distracting elements in the scene such as power lines and other such irritating objects; the odd branch; erroneous highlights and catchlights; and lens flare;
- I do not add objects to a scene (zoo bear to wilderness bear, etc.)
I am creating art and I feel comfortable that I am doing so in an honest manner with good intentions. My goal is to create the most pleasing scene with what nature provided me; with the Nikon in my hands; and with Photoshop at my disposal. I do not lie but the truth is buried in the RAW file in my archives...
My mom was a painter and she enjoyed a career in paints for nearly thirty years. I don't ever recall hearing her and my dad discuss the honesty in her work. She painted a scene as she saw it; she added light as she felt is was needed and she omitted objects that didn't add to the value of the scene. I can only imaging that 99% of the painters in history worked as she did. However, like many couples, they did debate color versus B&W TV; paved versus gravel roads in the country; natural versus processed foods; yellow versus white cheddar; and, and and.... Endless discussions in which there is no simple answer - the wheels of progress just turn and those that resist slowly fall beneath the wheel...
I believe that much of the debate on whether or not we are truthful in our work is sparked by those who do not understand our tools or our goals. Photoshop for many appears to be a complex tool, difficult to understand and, from my perspective, the possible root of the problem. There have been many examples of images that have been 'created" to prove a point but obvious mistakes in the image reveal a false representaion of the facts. The dishonest mistakes of a few spoil the honesty that many of us try to portray.
Ah Hah - caught ya, is the typical response from two sources - the digitally naive and the "shot it as I saw it" photographer. I've met both and I respct their options, to each his own and I wish them the best of success. Many people are set in their ways so who am I to judge them. However, I have seen many images where a tiny bit of "manipulation" could have improved on the work and no one would have been misled, tricked or taken advantage of.
Like you I disrespect those who falsify their work in an attempt to prove a fact or to mislead the viewer. All you have to do is look at a model in a magazine; there are certainly many lies on each page. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but is that the "holder" of the magazine or the "holder" of the RAW file.
|Reality in the Age of Digital Photography
|Digital Manipulation vs. Digital Correction
|Nature Photography as a Resource Extraction Industry
|My Top 3 Reasons for Shooting in the RAW
|On the Value of a Wolf
|On the Cost of a Wolf
|The Challenge of Being a Green Nature Photographer
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Brad Hill and do not necessarily represent those of any other group, organization, or corporation. In fact, it is possible they do not represent the views of anyone else on the planet - yet!


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Certification from IQS is considered a mark of quality excellence in many industries. It helps you advance your career, and boosts your organization's bottom line through your mastery of quality skills. Becoming certified as a Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence confirms your commitment to quality and the positive impact it will have on your organization.
The Certified Quality Manager (CQM) leads and champions process improvement initiatives—that can have regional or global focus—in various service and industrial settings. CQM facilitates and leads team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, supports strategic planning and deployment initiatives, and helps develop measurement systems to determine organizational improvement.
Educational Requirements
Depending on the employer's preference, certified quality managers should have at least an associate's degree in quality management or similar training. CQMs with a bachelor's degree in engineering or business can obtain more job opportunities due to their four-year degree. Some of the college courses that students can take include math, statistics, computer-aided design, and science. It also helps if CQMs have some experience on a production floor analyzing quality control methods.
certified quality managers should obtain certification to develop their professional skills. Quality managers without a degree who are looking to get certified should have at least ten years of professional experience. Managers with a degree need to prepare for the exam by studying the body of knowledge. The exam consists of two parts, an essay response and multiple-choice, and takes about four hours to complete. IQS offers practice exams, reference lists, books, and training to help individuals prepare for the exam. It is also recommended that certified quality managers be re-certified every three years to keep their skills current.
Want to prepare for the CQM exam, but don't have the time or money for a classroom course? This self-paced course helps you understand the CQM Body of Knowledge and prepare for the material on the test. The format provides the flexibility and convenience of working on course materials online.
This self-study program features everything you'll need to prepare for the Certified Quality Manager (CQM) exam. It includes a pre- and post-test as well as a printable PDF download of the entire course which you can take into the CQM exam. Please note: no multiple choice formatted questions are admitted to the exam room.
Learning Objectives:
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Prior knowledge of quality or quality management is recommended as this course is designed as a review of the subject areas needed for the CQM exam.
Who Should Attend:
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Each certification candidate is required to pass a written examination that consists of multiple-choice questions that measure comprehension of the body of knowledge. The Quality Manager examination is a four-hour, two-part examination—150 multiple-choice questions and two constructed response (essay) questions. It is offered in the English language only. The multiple-choice portion of the exam is 3 hours 15 minutes; the constructed response portion is 45 minutes.


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Grantsville Softball
The Grantsville softball team extended its early-season record to 4-0 with a win at Spanish Fork Tuesday.
Grantsville scored a run in the top of the first inning en route to a 3-0 shutout.
Whitney Turner came in to run for pitcher Whitney Fields, and Turner moved from first base to second base on a passed ball. Later in the inning, Turner scored on a base hit by Amy Matthews.
Grantsville's other two runs came in the top of the fifth inning. Jamie Hamby singled with two outs and then stole second base. Then Teagan Critchlow singled to send Hamby to third base. Critchlow then stole second as well so both runners were in scoring position. Fields came up to bat and knocked a base hit to score both runs, and help her own cause as the winning pitcher.
"We're happy for the girls," Grantsville coach Heidi Taylor said. "They're doing good and working hard. They're excited to start off so strong. We talked about practicing like you want to play, and we had good senior leadership."
The Cowboys take on Juan Diego Friday at 3 p.m. in a battle of top teams in 3A. Although still in the non-region schedule, Taylor said she and the girls are excited for the fight.
"They have good pitching, and they're shortstop is really good," Taylor said. "They've got some big hitters so we just have to go out and execute our gameplan, and hopefully we get a win, but if not at least we're seeing a good team and getting some good experience."
Juan Diego currently has a No. 3 ranking in 3A with a 3-1 overall record. Juan Diego defeated Copper Hills 9-4 to open the season, then it defeated Sky View 6-3, and finally beat Manti 9-5. Juan Diego's only loss came against Layton 6-5 in a neutral site game down in St. George.
Stansbury Softball
On Tuesday at Stansbury Park, the Stallions shut out Hunter 3-0 with Beth Chipman gaining the victory in the circle. Stansbury allowed on three hits and were led on offense by Kilee Christensen who when 2-for-3 including a double. Katelyn Robinson smacked a triple.
Stansbury is scheduled to play five games Friday and Saturday in St. George against Riverton, Lone Peak, Canyon View, Herriman and Alta. Stansbury will host Ben Lomond on Wednesday for its Region 11 opener.


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Violating the Code of Ethics Can Get You Sued
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Realtors who ignore the Code of Ethics do so at their own peril. Angry buyers & sellers who believe they suffered financial damages because of a real estate agent are quick to instigate lawsuits to recover their alleged losses. Lawsuits can be costly in time, money, and reputation, and are always emotionally stressful. But prudent Realtors who learn and then abide by our Code of Ethics can avoid the mistakes, pitfalls, and temptations that lead other licensees to litigation nightmares.
After we've been in the business a few years, most Realtors seem to forget that we once swore to be guided by the Realtors' Code of Ethics. We don't remember that the promise to do so is the heart of the oath we took when we first joined our local board.
Because our memories of Code specifics usually turn to dust, the NAR instituted a mandatory Ethics review that each of us must attend every four years in order to keep our membership alive.
The trouble is, not all Realtors take the Code seriously, and their failures to do so frequently result in miserable, nasty, expensive lawsuits as buyers, sellers, and other licensees become plaintiffs who claim financial injury and initiate actions at law.
You may ask how this is possible when the harshest punishments available to a board's Professional Standards Committee are summary expulsion from the board and/or a $1,000 fine.
On the surface, that seems like a good question, which I will answer with another. What makes you think that the injured parties are going to be content with simply filing an ethics complaint?
The fact is, lots of people never even bother with filing ethics complaints and go straight to attorneys, who are all too happy to advocate for them in a court of law. After all, that is what litigation attorneys do – they either sue or they defend those who are sued – at the rate of $200-$350 per hour.
As a Realtor called upon by attorneys to offer expert testimony in lawsuits involving Realtors, I have seen the good, the bad, and the loathsome. In case after case where the evidence supports the plaintiffs' claims for damages, I have stated my opinion that the Realtors conduct violated one or more articles of the Code of Ethics. And that is just the half of it.
You see, each of those relevant Code violations also constitutes a breach of one or more duties imposed upon licensees by Florida Statute 475. It's easy as pie for most experts to connect a violation of one to a breach of the other because 475.278 (2) (a) is both simple and crystal clear. Among other requirements, It declares that the duties of a Transaction Broker to buyers and sellers include (1) dealing honestly and fairly, and (3) using skill, care, and diligence in the transaction.
Now here's the big news for most readers; the fact that you no longer have to disclose your status as a Transaction Broker does not relieve you of your lawful statutory duties.
When consulting to attorneys, I find that nearly all are ignorant of our Code of Ethics, and they are happy to add that fuel to their fire when focusing on a Realtor's misdeeds. But sometimes, a Realtor's adherence to the Code will let me come to an opinion that, in fact, the Realtor's conduct is ethical and he or she is being unjustly accused by a disgruntled buyer or seller.
Some Examples
Case 1: Buyer sued the listing office that was handling sales at a large town home community, claiming substantial damages because the broker and salesperson did not inform him of the presence of a sewage lift station and a community trash compactor near the several units he had purchased. An examination of the evidence showed that the clearly visible lift station enclosure had been there for years, and that the huge compactor construction stood out like an elephant at both the buyer's agent's many inspections during construction and at the buyer's walk-through.
Article 2 of The Code prohibits us from concealing pertinent facts, and our corresponding FREC duty requires us to disclose known but hidden defects in the property. Inasmuch as the two items were out in the open, I testified that there was no concealment on the part of the listing broker, and no requirement to disclose that which was clearly visible and obvious.
Case 2: Buyers sued a listing Realtor and the sellers for damages after their offer to purchase her listing at full price without an appraisal was not accepted, but a lower offer was. My examination of the evidence revealed that the agent had negotiated a secret agreement with the sellers providing for a lower commission if she also procured the buyers, which is exactly what happened. Dual or variable commission arrangements are not illegal, but according to Article 3 of the Code of Ethics, they must be indicated as such in the MLS and the details have to be disclosed immediately to any cooperating agent who plans to present an offer.
So, in my sworn deposition, I declared that this breach of the Code also led to a violation of the FREC requirement that licensees deal fairly and honestly. The sellers also lost thousands of dollars when they dropped the price to meet the lower appraisal, and they joined the buyers' suit against the Realtor.
Case 3: Buyer sued Realtor for substantial damages (claiming lost potential profit) charging that the Realtor unfairly failed to inform him of better competing offers. This was an easy case. It turned out that the buyer neither asked if there were any competing offers, nor did the seller give the required permission for his Realtor to reveal their existence. Article 1 of the Code says that conduct is o.k., so I concluded that – insofar as meeting the standards of FREC -- the listing Realtor was both fair and honest.
Cases 4, 5, & 6: I will spare you the details, just be sure to have your Seller's Disclosure forms signed by the buyers, get the signed forms back to sellers, and keep copies for both yourself and your broker. This will protect you from charges of violating Article 9 of our Code, and thus insulate you from FREC charges that you failed to exercise skill, care, and diligence in the transaction. More importantly, such taking care of business can also help shield you from nasty claims of "failure to disclose a hidden defect" (Article 2) if the seller itemized one in the disclosure, and a count that you were unfair and dishonest. We're talking FREC here.
The Right Side
The Realtor Code of Ethics and our duties as spelled out by Chapter 475 do not dovetail in every respect. For example, FREC does not give a hoot if you recklessly make false or misleading statements about your competitor or former partner -- conduct that is outlawed by Code Article 15. But if a Realtor violates Code articles that relate to any type of real estate transactions from residential to commercial to leasing to management, there's a chance that one or both of the principal parties might suffer financial loss and, just as bad, serious emotional distress.
That's how lawsuits begin. And the next thing you know, an expert is hired who will tie the violations of the Code of Ethics to particular violations of Florida Statute 475, and then tell the jury all about it.
Believe me; I would much rather help your attorney defend you than help the plaintiff's attorney prosecute you. Study the Code, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be on the right side.
By Larry Lowenthal
Realtor at Century 21 Rose Realty West, Cooper City, Florida
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Real Estate Expert Witness: Broker Conduct, Realtor Ethics, Standard of Care
Real Estate Expert Witness: Broker Conduct, Realtor Ethics, Standard of Care
Larry Lowenthal is Real Estate Expert Witness / Broker in Gainesville, Florida, home of the University of Florida. A native Chicagoan, his University of Chicago degree is in Economics.
Following a notable 1st career as a creative professional in the advertising agency business, Larry earned a broker license and later completed Coldwell-Banker's training course in Miami. He analyzed hundreds of complaints as Chair/member of his board of Realtors Grievance committee, and tried many as a hearing panelist. He is mostly retired from the brokerage business but stays current on the law.
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Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this publication, it is not intended to provide legal advice as individual situations will differ and should be discussed with an expert and/or lawyer.For specific technical or legal advice on the information provided and related topics, please contact the author.


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A Standard for Pottery Studies in Archaeology. This standard, produced with funding from Historic England, was compiled by the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group, the Study Group for Roman Pottery, and the Medieval Pottery Research Group with the aim of creating the first comprehensive, inclusive standard for working with pottery. It is intended for use in all types of archaeological project, including those run by community groups, professional contractors and research institutions. Click the link above to download a copy.
Guidelines for the Archiving of Roman Pottery. The aim of the Guidelines is to establish common methods of approach and some standardisation of recording.
Illustrating Samian Ware. Guidelines for the recording, illustration and publication of samian ware, in particular decorated vessels and stamps. It focuses on rubbings as the principal means of illustrating samian, though provides information on other techniques, for example photography and conventional line drawing.


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Crime News
Photos: Housewife Kills Husband On Lagos Island For Partying With Another Woman
A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband on Lagos Island.
The suspect, 23-year-old Ayeni Damilola who accused her husband, Olumide of infidelity allegedly stabbed him to death shortly after he arrived home from a party on Friday the 3rd of August 2018.
According to sources, the 36-year-old Pharmacist assistant was murdered after his wife told him she heard the voice of a woman the last time he called her on phone.
The father of the deceased who reported the matter to the police described his son as a perfect gentle and demanded for justice.
Here is what Sunday Ayeni said about the untimely death of his son:
"My son and I work at the Lagos Island General Hospital. While I work as a security guard, he worked in the pharmacy department. They got married at the Ikoyi registry.
"They had issues many times and my son reported her to me. I told them to go their separate ways, but people said I should not come between them.
"On Friday, after my son and I closed from work in the evening, he went for a party. Around that time, he called his wife on the telephone and they spoke.
"When he returned home that night, his wife waited for him at the door and stopped him from entering. She said she heard the voice of a woman in the background when they spoke on the telephone and accused him of infidelity. That was how she stabbed him in the chest and killed him. There was no struggle between them. Their two children were taken away by the wife's mother. She has a three-month-old baby."
The couple's two children are currently in the custody of the suspect's mother.
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Evil woman….
Makes no sense. You heard a woman's voice in the background and concluded the woman was with him. This is a party with a lot of people in attendance. Now you will be in prison and your children will grow up without their father knowing fully well that their mother killed him and think they will be happy?


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"…speaking their spouse's primary love language—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other."
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Metro ( Underground Railway ):- India's first underground railway connects between southern and northern part of the city (between Tollygunge and Dumdum ). The track passes through the heart of the city. Stations are wall decorated with art works based on themes related to local area.
Bus:- The most widely used mode of transportation between suburbs and the main city. Buses come in different types, like, CSTC (Calcutta State Transport Corporation) Govt. buses, privately owned bus routes (majority of the buses are privately owned), mini buses, specials, limited stops, express service etc. Fares start from Rs.4.50. Some special buses' fare start from Rs.7/7 . Most buses have two doors, some have one. All buses have some seats reserved for ladies and elderly people. In most of the cases, ticket collector (conductor) collects the ticket after boarding. Check different local bus routes. Long distance buses are available from Esplanade and Howrah. Some long distance buses have luxury elements like video displays etc.
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The Solomon Islands has undergone the second cycle of review of the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption conducted by the Republic of Korea and Vietnam.
Following an invitation by the Solomon Islands Government in June 2016 during the Implementation Review Group (IRG) deliberations in Vienna, Austria, Solomon Islands volunteered to be reviewed in the first year of the second review cycle, focusing on Chapters 2 and 5 of the Convention.
Consequently, the Government of Solomon Islands invited the review team for a country visit from the 20th – 22nd September 2017.
The purpose of the visit was to facilitate the review team's discussions with relevant stakeholders, and to collect additional information to assess Solomon Islands' compliance with the provisions of UNCAC pertaining to preventive measures and asset recovery.
The second cycle review was officially opened by the Chairman of the Leadership Code Commission, Mr. Solomon Kalu.
In his remarks, Mr. Kalu stated that;
"apart from its undertakings pertaining to the implementation of its anti-corruption policy and frameworks, the Solomon Islands Government is committed to this important review on whether Solomon Islands as a country per its laws and policies have taken into account the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) pertaining to its Chapters on preventive measures and asset recovery".
The Chairman also provided a brief overview of UNCAC and noted that;
"The fight against corruption is not only a national undertaking because corruption crosses national and international boundaries. Therefore, the fight against corruption must also be on an international footing. There is a need for us to strengthen our domestic laws, taking into account the international nature of corruption".
Several stakeholders who attended the review were: Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer, Director of Public Prosecution, Solicitor General from the Attorney General Chambers, Ombudsman, Chairman of the Leadership Code Commission, Officials from the Solomon Islands Law Reform Commission, Officials from Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Ministry of Public Service, President of the Solomon Islands Bar Association, Secretary General of the Development Service Exchange, and Representative from Transparency Solomon Islands.
Updates from the Solomon Islands Government's anti-corruption efforts were presented by the Deputy Secretary to Prime Minister – Mr. Derek Futaiasi.
The Implementation Review Mechanism is divided into two review cycles.
Solomon Islands had undergone the first cycle review pertaining to chapters 3 (Criminalization and Law Enforcement) and 4 (International Cooperation) of the UNCAC in 2014.
Solomon Islands acceded to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2012. This means that Solomon Islands has committed itself to comply with the provisions of UNCAC.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the secretariat to the Implementation Review Mechanism.
– PMO Press


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Nine years ago we became involved with Frenchies. I wanted to start showing and began taking local handling classes. That is when I began on my quest to for the best French Bulldog. Health, temperament and conformation are most important to us here at Gypsy Canyon. All our dogs are AKC registered and our puppies are sold on spay / neuter contracts, unless they are to be shown, which requires a different contract.
All our dogs are part of our family, live under the same roof as us, go to work with us and travel with us everywhere. We are proud members of the French Bulldog Club of America and take our personal responsibility to uphold the Breed Standard very seriously.
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Objectives Information on mortality in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is scarce. Our study therefore aimed to assess: (1) mortality in AS versus the general population, and (2) predictors of death in the AS population.
Methods Nationwide cohorts of patients with AS diagnosed at rheumatology or internal medicine outpatient clinics (n=8600) and age-matched, sex-matched and county-matched general population comparators (n=40 460) were identified from the National Patient Register and the census register, respectively. The follow-up period began on 1 January 2006 or at the first date of registered diagnosis thereafter and extended until death, emigration or 31 December 2012, whichever occurred first. Socioeconomic variables, AS-related clinical manifestations, joint surgery, comorbidities and medication were identified from other national registers. Cox regression models were used to determine mortality and predictors for death in the AS cohort.
Results There were 496 deaths in the AS cohort and 1533 deaths in the control cohort resulting in an age-adjusted and sex-adjusted HR of 1.60 (95% CI 1.44 to 1.77), with increased mortality for men (age-adjusted HR=1.53, 95% CI 1.36 to 1.72) and women (age-adjusted HR=1.83, 95% CI 1.50 to 2.22). Within the AS cohort, statistically significant predictors for death were a lower level of education, general comorbidities (diabetes, infections, cardiovascular, pulmonary and malignant diseases) and previous hip replacement surgery.
Conclusions Mortality was increased for male and female patients with AS. Predictors of death within the AS cohort included socioeconomic status, general comorbidities and hip replacement surgery.
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Epidemiology
- Outcomes research
- Spondyloarthritis
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After leaving school, Linda moved to Winnipeg to live with her aunt Margaret and uncle Donald Sinclair and cousins and began working in Eaton's store as an office switchboard operator and later as a clerk. Her job as a clerk was to add all the sales from each day on a compdometer.
"My wages were $32.00 per week when I started there." she recalls. "Merna, my cousin, and I, along with two other girls, rented an apartment in Winnipeg."
Linda married Jim Thomas, a construction worker from Port Alberni. The young couple first moved to Winnipeg and then to a 40-acre piece of land given to them by Linda's parents. They had a house moved onto the property. They had four children: Deb, Gordon, Darren (born in Winnipeg) and Janine (born in Brandon).
In Brandon, Jim got a job and bought a house, while Linda worked at the Brandon General Hospital as a switch operator.
After the birth of their children, they moved to Port Alberni in 1972, where Thomas' entire family lived. "It was a whole different life for me as there was no '40 degree below weather' in the winter," Linda says.
They bought a house on Lathom Road but they separated soon after, and Linda got a job at the West Coast General Hospital, where she worked from 1973 to 2001. Her first job was in the admitting department, where she worked all rotating shifts for four years (which created a babysitting problem), followed by a position as a laboratory clerk after the retirement of the incumbent.
"Well, that was the end of my graveyard shifts," she says.
Following that, she went on to take other poisitions in the hospital operation, including postings as the nursing unit clerk in maternity, psych and medical surgical wards during the staff holidays.
In 1994, Linda's granddaughter, Cindy, was born in Nanaimo. Linda was, of course, planning to visit the newborn girl, but that day after leaving her job, she felt the urgency to go to Nanaimo immediately. So she did. And something happened as soon as she arrived at the hospital: the baby stopped breathing. And, while the mother desperately went down the hallway in search of help, Linda worked on the newborn and saved her life.
"I got there at the right time!" she recalls.
Linda sold her house on Lathom Road and bought a trailer where she lived until her children got married and moved out.
"Soon after, my trailer was often visited by my grandchildren," she says.
Before her retirement on Dec. 31, 2001, Linda took a final posting as an office bookkeeper.
Linda has enjoyed a number of pastimes during her life, such as knitting, sewing, cooking and making fudge. In 1977, she joined the Sorority group, a membership she holds today. But her favourite leisure activity has been travelling around the world.
"Recently, I made a list of all the places I have visited in my lifetime. I can say that the list is very extensive. It's something I enjoy doing," she said with a big smile.
She has been on numerous trips in Canada and abroad, including Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, North and Central America and New Zealand.
"I counted my list of trips I have been on and it is 39 trips I have taken out of the country," she said.
"It's been almost two years since I moved to Abbeyfield, a home that gives me security and companionship. I enjoy it because I am surrounded by people and it also gives me the opportunity to take part in bus trips and attend events they schedule for us every week.
"I am able to welcome family and friends to my new home, and they know that they can come to see me anytime they want. Last week, for example, I had a surprise visit by some old time friends from Campbell River."


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Generals and soldiers must pass messages up and down the chain of command in secret to avoid interception by the enemy. The same applies to cities. Writing in the 1600s, the English natural philosopher (and proto-semiotician) John Wilkins (1614-1672) affirmed that
"there are certain ways to discourse with a friend, though he were in a close dungeon, in a besieged city, or a hundred miles off" (4).
Wilkins recounted numerous methods of sending messages in secret, and included several examples of the kinds of short messages delivered by citizens and leaders under siege:
"The pestilence doth still increase amongst us we shall not be able to hold out the siege without fresh and speedy supply" (69).
Epidemics and starvation were amongst the afflictions that beset a besieged city, and required secret communications.
Secret obsessions
I'm reading Katherine Ellison's book A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals. She recounts the 400 year history of secret messaging as a necessity, a hobby, and an obsession. Though secret writing dates to the dawn of language, by other accounts, people's interest in it is a product of the age of print. See post: The immoveable typist. Wilkins' book is a prime example of one of these early cryptography manuals. Ellison writes:
"Cryptography is clearly, in Wilkins's description of his motivation at least, a promising solution for loneliness and survival in a disconnected world of local and global conflict" (6).
I've not yet heard of people resorting to the study of cryptography as a means to keeping themselves occupied during the pandemic lockdown, though solving puzzles, playing video games, and sending messages are. Now the privacy needs of digital communications are of course met by automated encryption invisible to the user.
This is not a message
There's a complete facsimile version of Wilkins' Mercury at Google books and elsewhere. The full title on the book cover is Mercury: Or The Secret and Swift Messenger showing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any Distance.
The most cunning methods of passing messages are those that conceal to a potential interceptor that there is even a message in play. One method involves an innocuous knotted piece of string. When unfurled and zigzagged across a wooden template guided by side notches, the otherwise random knots line up against the letters of the alphabet to reveal the secret message.
As far as I can make out, this one says, "beware of this bearr who is sent a rasapy over you." Allowing for my misreading of Old English typography, I think it should read "beware of this bearer who is sent to spy over you."
This is not a haircut
The current lack of hair salons drew me to another method recounted, though not recommended, by Wilkins. The sender would shave the head of a young servant, then write something on the servant's scalp. When the hair had grown back the servant would be dispatched to the recipient, who would then shave the servant's head to reveal the message. So, not all messaging techniques are instantaneous. Wilkins doesn't provide an example of the kind of message that would be so conveyed. I would be pleased if it said something like "don't ask me what I'm doing for the holidays."
The Handbook of Semiotics lists Wilkins amongst the progenitors of modern semiotics. Volumes 1 and 2 of The Essential Peirce mention neither Wilkins nor cryptography, but according to an account by Yvan Beaulieu, Peirce developed a detailed system of cryptographic encoding that anticipated the binary computer.
- Beaulieu, Yvan. 2008. Peirce's contribution to American cryptography. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, (44) 2, 263-287.
- Ellison, Katherine. 2017. A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals. London: Routledge
- Nöth, Winfried. 1990. Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press
- Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1976. The New Elements of Mathematics: Volume 1 Arithmetic. The Hague: Mouton
- Wilkins, John. 1641. Mercury: Or The Secret and Swift Messenger. London: I. Norton for John Maynard and Timothy Wilkins


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