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Windows 10 Field Guide (Book + Printable Posters)
Last updated on 2019-01-21
About the Book
Windows 10 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, or acquire Windows 10 with a new PC.
Windows 10 Field Guide is...
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A how-to and a reference. This book provides tips, how-to's and reference information about Windows 10, and assumes only that you have used some version of Windows previously. But rather than cover every single little checkbox and option in all apps and features, this book focuses on the important stuff, on what's new and what's changed in Windows 10, so you can quickly get up to speed and master this new OS version and be productive as quickly as possible.
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Windows 10 Field Guide is the only Windows book you'll ever need. And if it isn't, tell us. We'll fix it.
Thanks for reading. Seriously, we couldn't---and wouldn't---have done this without you.
--- Paul Thurrott, Rafael Rivera and Martin McClean
Table of Contents
About the Book
- Trademarks and disclaimers
- Publication history
- Meet the authors
- Thanks!
- Get More Posters!
- Introduction
Install Windows 10
- Can you install Windows 10 on your PC?
- Things to consider before installing Windows 10
- Create Windows 10 Setup media
- Clean install Windows 10
- Upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10
- Post-install tasks
- Upgrade from one Windows product edition to another
Basic Navigation and Usage
- Start: Menu or full-screen
- Taskbar: Manage apps and windows
- Start search: Find what you need
- Desktop: Your scratch space
- File Explorer: Manage documents and files
- The Microsoft Store: Apps, games, and more
- Action Center and notifications: Find out what's new
- Multitasking: Manage multiple windows at once
- Take a screenshot: Capture an image of the screen
- Settings: Customize and configure Windows
- Windows Update: Keep Windows up-to-date
- Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Lock and Sign-Off
- Quick Access: A menu for power users
- Get to know the Settings app
- Eliminate the biggest annoyances first
- Customize your privacy settings
- Customize the display
- Customize the desktop
- Configure and customize Start
- Customize the taskbar
- Customize the lock screen and sign-in screen
Files and Storage
- Get to know File Explorer
- Configure or disable Quick access in File Explorer
- Share pictures and other files from File Explorer
- Use OneDrive to sync files between the cloud and your PC
- Manage your PC's storage
- Back up and recover documents and other personal files with File History
System Recovery
- Get to know the system recovery options
- Create a Recovery drive
- Reinstall Windows and start fresh
- Perform advanced recovery tasks with the Windows Recovery Environment
- Get to know Devices settings
- Connect a device
- Configure a mouse or touchpad
- Configure a keyboard
- Configure removable storage
- Configure a printer
- Configure a second display
- Getting started with Your Phone
- Link your phone with your PC
- Access the most recent photos on your phone
- Send and receive text messages
- Use Continue on PC to pick up where you left off
- Explore more PC and phone integration features
User Accounts
- Accounts settings at a glance
- Understand what's different when you use a Microsoft account
- Microsoft account security first steps
- Add a user account
- Configure a user account
- Delete a user account
- Sign-in to your PC more easily
- Lock your PC automatically
- Sign-in as a different user
- Get to know Windows Defender Security Center
- Use Windows Update to keep Windows 10 up-to-date
- Use Windows Defender protect your PC from threats
- Find your PC if it's lost or stolen
- Use BitLocker to secure your personal data
- Networking at a glance
- Set up your home or work network correctly
- Connect to a broadband cellular network
- Share your Internet connection
- Connect to known safe public wireless connections automatically
- Get to know Cortana
- Configure Cortana
- Use Cortana for reminders
- Set a timer
- Get instant language translations
- Play music
- Search for files, no matter where they are
- Use Cortana on the lock screen
Microsoft Store and Apps
- Get to know the Microsoft Store
- Before you start
- Find and install apps and games
- Update apps
- Manage app notifications
- Uninstall an app
- Configure default apps
- Configure where apps are located
- Get to know the Mail app
- Manage your accounts
- Read and send email messages
- Use Mail more efficiently
- Customize Mail
- More soon
- Get to know the People app
- Manage accounts
- Manage contacts with the People app
- Access your contacts from outside the People app
- Configure People
- Get to know the Calendar app
- Manage accounts and calendars
- Manage events and meetings
- Create and manage meetings
- Access your events from outside the Calendar app
- Customize Calendar
- Skype apps at a glance
- Set up the Skype apps correctly
- Send and receive Skype messages
- Make audio and video calls
- Handle Skype notifications
- Manage your contacts
Microsoft Edge
- Get to know Microsoft Edge
- Configure Microsoft Edge
- Manage your favorite web pages
- Read on the web
- Add notes to a web page
- Read and manage PDF files
- Read and manage E-PUB files and ebooks
- Manage tabs
- Manage downloads
- Do more with Microsoft Edge extensions
- Get help from Cortana
- Manage Flash content in websites
- Cast media to a bigger screen
- Maps at a glance
- Navigate and change the view
- Find places
- Get directions
- Explore 3D city views
- Write on your maps with Ink
- Configure Maps
OneNote Mobile
- OneNote Mobile vs. OneNote 2016
- OneNote Mobile: At a glance
- Add a OneDrive for Business account
- Create a new page
- Edit a note
- Search for text across all of your notebooks
- Share a note
- Pin a notebook, section, or page to Start
- Photos at a glance
- View a photo
- Do other things with a photo
- Play a slideshow
- Share a photo
- Enhance a photo
- Edit a photo
- Rotate a photo
- Delete a photo
- Open a photo with another app
- Copy a photo to the clipboard
- Print a photo
- Set a photo as the lock screen image or as the desktop background
- View a photo's file information
- Let Photos automatically enhance your photos
- Perform actions on multiple photos
- Download photos from a phone or digital camera
- Configure Photos settings
- Determine what to display on the Photos tile
- Determine where Photos looks for pictures
Groove Music
- Get to know the Groove Music app
- Tweak music playback with the equalizer
- Play music that is stored on your PC or home network
- Play music that is stored in OneDrive
- Pin your favorite music to Start
Movies & TV
- Get to know the Movies & TV app
- Configure Movies & TV
- Play and control a video
- Rent a movie
- Purchase a movie or TV show
- Watch Movies You've Purchased from Other Services
- Use subtitles
- Wirelessly cast a video to an HDTV or other display
Xbox and Games
- Configure your PC for games
- Find and buy games
- Play games
- Use the Game bar to capture and broadcast your gameplay content
- Use the Xbox app to interact with the Xbox Live community
Windows Ink
- Get to know Windows Ink Workspace
- Configure Windows Ink and your pen
- Use Sticky Notes to take notes and set reminders
- Use Sketchpad to create a digital sketch
- Use Screen Sketch to draw on the screen
- Quick Reference Sheets
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Numerous Plant Species and Human Lineages Identified. Now What?
A caller asked me (please use email or blog comments):
Have you taken a careful look at the two color-coded charts from the Nature paper? Now what?
I don't know. I think this paragraph from the paper, Uncovering the sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud helps somewhat.
DNA extracted from dust particles that were vacuumed from the Turin Shroud shows sequence profiles that identify numerous plant species and correspond to several distinct human mtDNA haplogroups. These results not only confirm that plant fibers and pollen grains are present on TS, as previously reported by optical microscopy, but also reveal that multiple human individuals touched or otherwise left traces of their DNA on the relic linen. The detection of such a variety of DNA sources is extremely valuable in assessing whether there are possible parallelisms between the areas of origin and distribution of identified land plant species and human mtDNA haplogroups and the temporal and spatial paths associated with the two alternative scenarios that have been proposed to explain the TS origin.
Is there more that we can know or assume from this data?
Click on each of these charts for bigger, easier to read versions.
October 21, 2015 at 4:22 pm
The value of this paper is not in its conclusions, which are so catholic as to admit of almost any place or time from which the Shroud may have originated, but in the fact that DNA analysis of very small particles is now possible and has been carried out. Fairly arbitrary scoopings of dust mean that these findings are painted with a pretty broad brush, but the concept is precise and a useful analytical tool. Incidentally, for the scientists among our readers, I thoroughly recommend downloading the 'Supplementary Material' which can be found after the Acknowledgements, which adds a good deal more information.
Of the pollen, of course, only two or three of the two dozen or so species listed in this paper coincide with anything discovered by previous palynologists. Where is the Gundelia which made up a third of the previous assemblages? Where the "continuous carpet" of Matricaria or Anthemis of Avinoam Danin? Where the Carduus, the Helicrysum, or Scheuermann's Chrysanthemum? I do not know how accurate the DNA analysis might be, but for such a small quantity of known plant material found on the Shroud itself to end up in the hooverings implies that all the rest of it is exogenous.
October 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm
It has only been in the last few years that the Shroud/cloth has been in a protected status behind glass and strict handling rules. Before that time it has been open to anything in the air, on the surface of where it may have been lain, unknown number of hands that were moving, opening or folding closed – in other words, about 2,000 years of unsanitary conditions. A bad example would be if an astronaut who had done a moon walk brought back and uncleansed space suit and opened it up around the shroud, it is possible that a very small amount of real moon dust could be found on the Shroud.
October 22, 2015 at 9:07 am
Apparently, until now, it has not been found
the DNA of the American Indians or
the DNA of Aboriginal Australians ….
However (putting aside the jokes) a
scientific study should take into
account what we can say with the
Calculus of Probability.
Then there is another thing to consider:
there is not yet a careful comparison with the
DNA found on another famous relic:
the Sudarium of Oviedo.
— —
However, as I have already had occasion
to emphasize in a previous message,
a "marginal difference of DNA" (ie: not for
the DNA of the Person who was in contact with
the ancient lignocellulosic materials) does not
imply anything about the authenticity of the two relics!
And, before to finish with the "complex topic DNA",
I still have doubts about the possibility to assign
a "rough date" (even with an approximate dating)
for the DNA of the people involved in the release
of "genetic traces" and extraneous to that dead Man.
This "dating of DNA" would help us to solve
the problem regarding the contamination
with foreign DNA, that is:
whether it is a kind of ancient or modern contamination…

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I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to take the words "I hate you" very personally, not seeing/realizing people are going through stresses or tension within themselves, for which they believe others/me as the cause. Within this I direct myself to not take those words personally, also to support them to see/realize how to look through the stresses to find solutions, I mean otherwise we are stuck at our mind positions born out of stress.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see/realize by taking their words like "I hate you" personally, I am actually giving their insane minds more power, I see/realize every person is a Mind Conscious System, which is extremely unreliable and unsteady, and so by taking their words personally I am only making the unreal real. So I direct myself to ask questions, hear, listen and understand their issues instead of taking their upsetting words personally and making the situation even worse. Me getting upset, annoyed, hurt etc, is not going to change anything, but by remaining stable within myself, by not taking their words personally, I am giving space, and allowing solutions to be found. I mean, when a person is really upset, the best support to give them is not take their words personally. I think, I would like that from others when I speak shit, or I am upset or in a bad mood. Sometimes people do lose their minds so nasty words will follow, so the best support to give in such moments is not take those words seriously or personally. I mean, when they calm down or at a later time, we can always revisit such situations to correct them, so to avoid future replay of it.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see/realize not too long ago, I was a demon myself, as I have spoken the mother of all nasty words to people in my life in a blink of an eye without any consideration whatsoever, so I see/realize, the value of support I can give by not taking nasty words personally, because in doing so, they can actually see the madness for themselves. I am grateful to people who didn't take my words back then very seriously, I mean, looking back, what if they had acted out or, what if my words back then had 'pushed them over', I mean, the consequences I will be facing today would 'hellish', fortunately, they were able to not take my words personally and were able to 'brush aside' without further compounding, for that I am grateful. So I direct myself to see/realize, there is great support given when I don't' take things too seriously or personally; it might even encourage others to 'open their eyes' to the madness that's happening. Not taking things personally is a great point of support.
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Asian equities mostly rose on Thursday, with the exception of Shanghai and Seoul, as investors took heart from a turn in oil prices and after the Federal Reserve said it was confident in the U.S. economy.
Overnight, U.S. stocks surged, with the blue-chip Dow marking its best session of the year, after Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in her last news conference of 2014 that the Fed is unlikely to start its rate hike process for "at least the next couple of meetings." The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.7 percent, while the S&P 500 added 2 percent, with energy pacing gains among its 10 major sectors. The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 2.1 percent.
Another positive boost for markets comes in the form of a recovery in oil prices, after U.S. data showed falling crude inventories. U.S. crude futures were little changed above $56 a barrel on Thursday. London Brent crude for February delivery was untraded yet, after settling up $1.17 at $61.18.


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Black Skirt And White Top For Early Fall Vibes In Paris
Can you believe how fast time flew?! Fall is just around the corner, and unfortunately it is certainly the last time of the year I wear a skirt! Black skirt and white top for early fall vibes in Paris is a great match!
Summer One Day…
What I love about summer is the bare leg things! I love wearing skirts and shorts in summer, I'm not really used to do so for fall winter, always scared to catch a cold! I am so sensitive to cold! I'm going to miss this kind of look!
And There Was Fall.
The temperature suddenly turned around overnight, I remember very well when it happened this week! I still can't believe that time for skirts and shorts is already over! I'm so excited about the fall season, because this is actually my favorite but feeling so nostalgic to stop wearing it! Or should I think how to update a skirt for fall as I did for a dress here?!
Black Skirt White Top In Paris
I enjoyed to wear one last time a summer piece: a skirt! Also, it was a great match with the location, as everyone says "Parisian girls always wear black (and white?)". I paired these pieces with lace up wedges, my current favorites! I love going out of my comfort zone by wearing heels! 🙂
What do you think??
PS: I just realized that I still have summer look in stock so get ready! #SorryNotSorry!


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Metro-East News
Agency that helps at-risk youths, pregnant women lays off 9 in metro-east
From staff and wire reports
An Illinois child social service agency is laying off 16 staffers who work with at-risk youth and expectant mothers in the metro-east and central Illinois.
Of the 16 being laid off, nine work out of the agency's metro-east offices in East St. Louis and Granite City, according to Children's Home and Aid spokesman Jassen Strokosch.
The layoffs are due to the nearly yearlong budget stalemate between Democratic lawmakers and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Strokosch said the state owes the agency about $1.8 million for services since July 1, the beginning of the current fiscal year.
The layoffs happened Wednesday and Thursday and will affect services at its metro-east and central Illinois offices.
The staffers worked to provide alternatives to incarceration to teenagers and helped find housing for homeless youth. They also provided counseling to expectant mothers during in-home visits.
Strokosch said the organization has had to let go 56 staffers so far this year because the state has not provided any funding.


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Governments need to help address the deep-rooted social and economic problems that give rise to terrorism in the first place. This is why there's a website called The Big Answer. It will show that although we need to ask (or demand) that our governments start being part of the solution and cease being part of the problem, expecting the U.S. government to produce a viable solution for the deep-rooted social and economic problems that give rise to terrorism is a fool's game. They can deal with terrorism and defense, but the bulk of the social problems will only respond to a combination of grassroots action and community strengthening—and The Big Answer will give the details.
Judging by the horrible results, the U.S. War on Terror is nothing less than a terrorist factory—and yet they keep it going!
And containment will never produce understanding—or solution, either. Ultimately, the control of terrorism depends on two things: redressing the underlying injustice and oppression which may be causing the violence; and utterly repudiating that violence by becoming models to emulate for the rest of the world, with regards to grassroots action, community strengthening, effective parenting, and effective relationships. Currently U.S. violence, inadequate parenting, irresponsibility, moral decay, lack of respect, and infamously negative media influences on the world make U.S. values something to shun, not emulate. To turn terrorism around, let us give them reasons to respect us, rather than hate us! See Good News and Bad News.
Of course, there are also the homegrown terrorists, such as the abortion clinic bombers, the Unabomber, and the Oklahoma City bomber.
Abortion clinic bomber
Throughout the world terrorists struck 22,171 times from 1970 through 1984, killing 40,394 persons and wounding 24,588. And since 1984, the terrorists have caused even higher casualty rates.
Between 1970 and 1984 there were 10,207 bombings, 6,884 attacks on facilities, 3,774 assassinations, 1,027 kidnappings, 142 hijackings, 137 maimings. This toll has only increased in more recent years.
"The number of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the decade since the attacks on September 11, 2001, a study released on Tuesday said, with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan the most affected. The number of annual deaths in attacks, however, peaked in 2007 -- the height of the Iraq conflict -- and has been falling ever since. The survey reported 7,473 fatalities in 2011, 25 percent down from 2007. That figure included dead suicide bombers and other attackers. Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Yemen were the five countries most affected by terrorism in descending order. . . . The U.S. military interventions pursued as part of the West's anti-al Qaeda 'war on terror', the researchers suggested, may have simply made matters worse—while whether they made the U.S. homeland safer was impossible to prove." The people harmed by the Boston Marathon bombings would be quite skeptical on this question. (Source: Reuters, Peter Apps, posted 12/04/2012 "Terrorist Attacks More Than Quadrupled In Decade Since Sept. 11, 2001, Study Finds")
Surveys are great marketing, sociological, and demographic research tools
An excessive reliance on a militarized foreign policy has our security forces seeing boogeymen everywhere, not just behind every rock but in every building, so our drone forces are kept busy stamping them out, knowing full well that each so-called terrorist we blast to smithereens creates ten more terrorists out to get us (furious relatives and friends). But the defense industry isn't fazed by such obscene calculus, since this means more terrorists to blast which in turn means more drones to purchase from a very profitable General Atomics with the public's apparently infinite supply of disposable income. The presidential administration's claim that their war on terror is about reducing terrorism is wearing thin since the exact opposite result is occurring and yet they continue to pursue their flawed strategy—revealing that the goal they tell us and the goal they really have are two different things. See The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption, and Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.
More terrorism means more drones get purchased from very profitable General Atomics
A typical terrorist is 20 to 23 years old, male (although the number of women terrorists is rising sharply), single or separated, middle or upper-class urban, recruited at a university, has 2.5 years of college and is either a lawyer, government worker, student, nurse, or sociologist. Typical victims of terrorists are police officers, government officials, military personnel, diplomats, business executives, banks, businesses, utilities, government offices, military facilities.
According to the U.S. Department of State, most terrorist incidents occur in the Middle East, Western Europe and Latin America with the Middle East having the most incidents in most of the years between 1968 and 1987. Incidents in the Middle East have increased from 18 in 1968 to 370 in 1987. Incidents in Western Europe were 21 in 1968, peaked at 257 in 1977, and are listed at 150 for 1987. In Latin America the numbers start at 45 in 1968, peak at 159 in 1986, and rest at 108 in 1987. More recently, the Near East and South Asia continued to experience the most attacks, incurring just over 75 percent of the 2011 total of over 10,000 terrorist attacks, according to the Department of State's reading and analysis of the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System.
The Department of State lists far fewer incidents overall than the Risks International data above, from 125 incidents internationally in 1968 to 832 in 1987. However, the ominous trend is the same in all the data. The Department of State also lists fewer wounded and dead from terrorist incidents, a total of 4535 dead and 9654 wounded internationally from 1970 through 1984. The discrepancy of the figures is most likely due to differences in how the State Department and Risks International have defined terrorist events.
According to a report from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (Source: "Where All The Terrorist Attacks Happen In America", Business Insider Inc., Dina Spector, 2012), referring to terrorist attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2008, "more than 2,600 attacks have taken place during that time period and nearly a third occurred in just five major cities. The largest number of attacks took place in Manhattan, New York (343 attacks), followed by Los Angeles, Calif (156 attacks), Miami-Dade County, Fla. (103 attacks), San Francisco, Calif. (99 attacks), and Washington, D.C. (79 attacks)."
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Our second day at sea is much calmer. The wind has shifted and we are running before it, which is altogether more pleasant, and the weather is fair and mostly warm, occasionally clouding up. We are out of sight of land, about 70 miles off the eastern coast of Argentina, and there is nothing but the sea and the sea birds for two full days. We have spent most of the day up on the bow with our binoculars and an assortment of naturalists and hard-core birders.
The sea birds are spectacular – Albatrosses with 11-foot wing spans; Shearwaters (mostly Great Shearwaters today); White-chinned and Giant Petrels (which are nearly as big as the Albatrosses), and occasional tiny Storm Petrels looking like grasshoppers on the surface of the water, Kelp Gulls (which are, most unusually for gulls, very easy to identify, as they are the only species of gull that occurs here); and, every once in a while, Magellanic Penguins bobbing up. We saw a couple of Brown Skuas (a very fierce, large, predatory bird) chasing a smaller Shearwater – not exactly hunting it, but trying to get it to drop its food (which it did). The naturalist tells us that if it doesn't, it might end up being the food after all.
Sometimes there are only a few that we have to search for, but they are often drawn to the ship and we are never entirely without them. Sometimes we come upon something tasty in the water and we get circling crowds, birds landing on the water, once a huge cloud of great birds of all kinds right next to the ship – why? No clue. Something of enormous interest to sea birds. Not us, as the ship policy forbids dumping garbage or kitchen scraps of any kind.
Steaming south, hanging out on the bow
There are interesting presentations and lectures every few hours, and of course they feed us constantly. The food continues excellent, and is more interesting to me today in the "fair winds and following seas". This is a very fine relaxing way to begin our adventure, before the mad scramble of intense activity that will begin tomorrow when we reach Peninsula Valdez.
We have just had a lecture about what to expect there – two large, shallow, extremely protected gulfs (on either side of the very narrow neck of the peninsula) off the perfect breeding ground for the Southern Right Whale. Hunted almost to extinction by the beginning of the 20th century, it was the first whale to be protected, and has made an impressive comeback. Ships such as this one are starting to see them in new places every year, as they increase their numbers and expand back into the areas from which they had disappeared.
We will get off the ship in the early morning, board busses to the other side of one of the gulfs, and take local whaling boats that have been chartered for us. They won't allow the ship to use the zodiacs, which is right and proper as it allows our tourist dollars to support a local, sustainable tourist industry. This is the kind of thing that Lindblad and National Geographic try to do everywhere they travel.
There will also be lunch at an estancia that happens to be right by a breeding colony of Magellanic Penguins. The weather looks good, and it promises to be a great experience – the only catch being that we get a wake-up call at 5, breakfast at 5:30, onto the bus by 6 am.
We disembarked at Puerto Madryn (a Welsh name, oddly enough – the Welsh were some of the first settlers in this region of Patagonia in the late 19th century) we boarded buses for a very long ride out to the peninsula – 400km round trip. This is a desert, in the rain shadow of the Andes, and the landscape looks pretty much like Nevada. The population is very small, and most of the roads are dirt or gravel. In addition to sheep (the major export is Merino wool), some cows and horses, there are quite a lot of Guanacos, a type of llama. They are related to camels, but act more or less like large deer, although not as skittish.
The entire peninsula, which is very large, is a national reserve. While the whales are here, no one is allowed in the water in either of the large gulfs, even to swim, except for a few whale-watching boats that are tightly controlled and restricted to a small area. The tiny town that serves them has a small hotel, a hostel, and some restaurants. It is clearly popular with Argentines as well as foreign tourists. It was a good plan to get us there early so that we were the first group out; by the time we got back, there were already crowds waiting. They reserved three boats for us, and said that we had fewer people per boat than is usual, but we still thought it a bit crowded.
The whales were magnificent! We were lucky with both the weather and the whales. The guides told us they don't always see so many, and they don't generally breach as often or as enthusiastically as this. There were many mother-and-calf pairs, and they often came close to the boats – not right alongside, but 20-50 feet away. These Southern Right Whales are distinguished by callosities, irregular white bumps or patches on their noses and heads, by which individuals can be identified. They come up often, since the babies have to breathe more often, having smaller lungs. They seem to love waving their tails or flippers, and both adults and babies breach, sending their entire huge bodies out of the water with their powerful tails.
After an hour and a half, we went in and piled back into the busses, and had another longish ride to the Estancia San Lorenzo, a restaurant that serves a breeding colony of Magellanic Penguins on the shore of the other gulf. This was also very well done, with knowledgeable local guides keeping people on the marked pathways and making sure they don't disturb the nests or try to touch the penguins (!) -- one guide asked Rick what our area of study was. She assumed we were researchers because we were all so respectful and well-behaved.
The penguins were wonderful, as penguins always are, but look surprising and odd in this desert environment. They nest in burrows, under a bush if they can or underground, both to protect their eggs and chicks from predators, and from the heat. This was an unusually hot day, 80 degrees or so, and many of them had come out from their burrows to avoid overheating the eggs, and were panting. They often lay two eggs, although typically only one of the chicks survives. There were no chicks yet, they hatch in mid-November.
We were also lucky enough to see a Hairy Armadillo, somewhat larger than the Texan variety, with hairs sticking up between the plates. It scurried around looking for somewhere to hide, but every time it poked its nose into a burrow, the nesting penguin snapped at it with its powerful beak and sent it right out again. (That's a big reason they try to make sure you don't try to touch the penguins – not just for the sake of the penguins!)
After a very dusty and crowded ride back we got barbecued lamb (Asado) and flan back at the rancho, then the very long bus ride back to the ship. We saw a Burrowing Owl (actually we were in the front seat and spotted it), a Rhea (the South American version of the Ostrich, too far away for pictures), and an Elegant Crested Tinamo (kind of like a chicken with a long slender neck and crest).
Whales and Penguins and Asado
Today we are on our way south southeast through extraordinarily calm seas, with not a cloud in the sky. During the talk on Cetaceans of the Southern Oceans the ship inexplicably began to roll heavily. After a few minutes, the captain announced that we had spotted Southern Right Whales ahead of the ship and that we had stopped to observe them. The ship was rolling because when we are not making headway, the stabilizers cease to work. Lesson One: When the ship starts to roll, head for a viewpoint. We all rushed outside and captured some more great whale shots. After that is was time for Rikkie Swenson's talk on photographic techniques, followed by an excellent lunch.
As of this writing we have been almost three entire days at sea. Three days steaming with nothing from horizon to horizon. We will likewise spend two more days after we depart the Falklands before reaching South Georgia. That is how remote that island is. Last night, after dark, I stood upon the bow of the ship at looked up at the southern sky - so dark you could make out the milky way and way unfamiliar constellations even through the ships running lights. Awesome.
The weather has been exceptional for a part of the world known for the roaring 40s and the screaming 50s. The seas outside the window are almost like glass.Somehow I don't think that will last. . . Back to the bow and the birds.
Tomorrow: the Falklands/Malvinas.


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Shadowhunters Recap: Season 1 Episode 8 'Bad Blood'/
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Raphael brings Simon's body to the Institute. Clary is given a choice whether to stake Simon or turn him into a vampire. After much soul searching Clary decides to bury him to become a vampire. Raphael kills Camille and becomes the new Vampire leader. When Simon awaken he's disgusted with what he has becomes and runs away. The Clave sends Lydia Bramwell takes over the Institute temporarily and inadvertently reveals to Alec that his parents were ex Circle members. Alec is torn by his anger towards his parents and wanting to restore his family honor. In the end he decides to propose to Lydia making an alliance. There is also an attack at the Institute by the Forsaken-who Isabelle discovers has angel blood-but is defeated by Isabelle and Hodge.
Although Simon doesn't seem happy about it, becoming a vampire is probably the best thing that could happen to him. He's already much more interesting than he was before and I actually felt quite sorry for him as he realized what he has become. While Simon is improving Clary is still annoying making Simon's death all about her. Simon becoming a vampire also means more Raphael, who seems intriguing and that fact he's overthrown dull Camille is also a plus in his favor.
Besides Clary's whining we also get scenes of boring (but luckily brief) flashbacks of Jocelyn and Luke as well as glimpses of dullard big bad Valentine. The series is getting better but needs a more charismatic and threatening baddie.
Elsewhere poor Isabelle and Alec get more pressure put upon them by their parents this week as they are informed the Clave is not happy with the institute and send Lydia Bramwell to oversee them. As she's revealed to be Clary's cousin it'll be interesting to see how the two get along with Lydia being by the book and Clary following her heart. We also get the revaluation that the Light wood parents were Circle members, much to Alec's disgust and anger. It may explain why their parents are so obsessed with following the rules in the present but also makes them hypocrites. No wonder Alex us running.
Meanwhile on a lighter note, favorite character Alec gets better each episode, and this week we're treated to a scene of topless Alec to the delight of the audience and Magnus. Their brief scene together discussing Alec's family was a nice moment. It's just a shame Alec didn't listen to Magnus's advice to follow his heart. Instead he decides to propose a political marriage to Lydia to restore the family name and be in charge of the institute. Oh Alec!
It was recently announced that Shadowhunters has been renewed for a second season. Now that the series is starting to find its feet and develop its characters I'm feeling a lot more hopeful that the quality of the series will continue to get better.


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The two-day national competition included two written tests, an interview, and a hands-on portion where contestants had to put together an engine in two hours. Bryan assembled his in just one hour and four minutes.
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How to use focusing with 'non-focusers' in work situations
I learned focusing by happy accident over ten years ago. It has been of great benefit to me in my own personal development. Some years ago, I began to develop an interest in the philosophy behind focusing, to explore Thinking at the Edge (TAE) and, more recently, to explore how to apply focusing to work situations.
I work as a business consultant, principally in the area of marketing communications. I get paid to ask people questions that help them clarify what they want to say: areas where there is as yet an unclear sense of what they want to communicate; areas with a 'fuzzy edge'. You can see already why this is a ripe area for focusing/TAE.
One day, I had a real epiphany. I was working on preparing a report with my business partner, a person whose favourite word is 'logic'; a person who would be wary of anything that smacked too much of 'touchy feely' stuff. I was wrestling with a felt sense of 'something' not right in what we had prepared when he leaned nearer and said, "You have your worried face on, so you've spotted something …." And then he waited, giving me the opportunity for my felt sense to unfold. I realised, with something of a shock, that he had become my focusing partner, without any understanding of the formal process. As we worked, I began to notice when this 'non-focuser' was also experiencing an unclear edge (usually indicated by a long 'uhm', sometimes accompanied by the (very logical) words, 'let's take a step back'). Without saying anything, but through my body posture and my presence, in my turn I was creating the space for his felt sense to unfold. Over the next few hours, I could feel that the work was flowing, while focusing was happening quite naturally.
After that, at meetings and work sessions, I began to play a little game which I call 'Spot the Focuser'. Once you begin it, you will spot focusers everywhere. I began to notice when people had an unclear edge, something they were in touch with but could not yet articulate. They show this fuzziness sometimes like I did in a 'worried face', sometimes in hesitations, in 'uhms' and 'ahs' and other mumblings and mutterings. Often in the business world these are taken as signs of 'indecisiveness'; 'lack of clarity'; 'being unstructured' – all of them potentially major faults! Instead of seeing unclear edges as portents of discomfort, areas to be avoided, cured or pitied, if we recognise them as felt senses then they become portals of discovery.
Tentatively, and in informal ways, I began to apply what I had learned about the focusing process from the more structured setting of a focusing/ TAE partnership to work situations, populated, I was beginning to realise, by lots of non-focusing focusers!. What I was attempting to do was to be with people in a way that would allow them to 'speak from', as Gendlin puts it, their felt sense of a situation so that it could unfold and carry forward. I want to emphasise that of course it is still their process: this is not about manipulating people into doing focusing: rather it is being with them in a facilitative way as they are 'focusing'; I call it Facilitative Focusing.
Let me give you a before-and-after example of how my work practices have changed. On one occasion I was helping a client prepare an internal newsletter. She said she wanted this issue to have an 'edgy' feel to it. Before my Spot the Focuser discovery, I probably would have jumped straight in with three bright ideas of how to create that sense of 'edgy' since I knew the organisation quite well. Instead, this time, I paused and treated her 'edgy'as a place where she was, appropriately enough, thinking at the edge. I simply asked that most essential of TAE questions, "So, what would you like 'edgy' to mean in this situation?" She then paused, and after some fits and starts said, "Something that's way beyond where they are right now, something that will really challenge the complacency and ordinariness that has crept in". "Oh, that kind of edgy", I replied, now with some better sense of what she meant. It's not what I would have understood by the word, it's not the dictionary definition either. But, for her, it fitted this situation.
Then, using the idea of 'facets' from the TAE process, I asked : "Can you think of a time when you have seen or experienced this kind of edgy – anywhere you have seen it, not just in a publication, but anywhere". Here, I was inviting her to fish in the deep lake of her whole experience, her whole intricacy, to find a facet, a pattern, she could use. She caught a Big One: "It's like a piece of jazz, like you don't quite know where it's going to go", she said. I reflected that back to her and after some further discussion she said suddenly, "I think Eamon is the right person to do a piece for this issue, he has that edge and he's not what they will expect". The right next step had come from her unfolding felt sense and the pattern of 'unexpected' from her music example. Now I could really contribute those bright ideas; ones that would be more in tune with our shared understanding of what was required. Had I been working in my old way, I would have jumped in too early with my own suggestions, my own assumptions and solutions (trying to be helpful, you understand!) and crushed her forming felt sense. Our work would have then missed out on the implicit wisdom she had for just this situation.
Working in this non-formal-focusing way is beginning to flow more naturally now. I have practised it, reflected on it, tried things out and found out what works. On one level, the differences in the way of working I am describing seem small, obvious even; on another level they come from large shifts in my understanding of how rich our experience is, how we use language creatively to say what we mean in situations, how we can develop and apply new concepts, how powerful (and difficult) real listening is, how natural a process focusing is and how powerful it can be when you are open to its exacting surprises.
These shifts in understanding have come largely from my study of Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit. I have found that this has deepened my appreciation of both focusing and TAE. It has given me confidence that there is more to explore, use and trust in my own experience, my own 'ongoingness' in interaction with others and my environment.
While I enjoy studying philosophy, I also have a strong practical side and like to find ways of applying ideas and concepts in everyday situations. To remind me to work more in this new way, I have developed what I will now grandly call a protocol: I remind myself to HISSS! There's how it goes:
This little memory aid helps me hold all of that new understanding and to remember to bring it with me in whatever situation I am in. Just saying the word itself, with all those slow sibilants, helps me to actually slow down, to pause, to put myself in a focusing space. From this space, I know that I have a better opportunity to access my rich, intricate experience and, through Facilitative Focusing, to help others to do that as well.
I invite you then, next time you are a meeting to try some HISSSing; I think you will be richly rewarded when you do.
Mary Jennings is a business consultant and lives in Dublin, Ireland. She can be contacted at email@example.com
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Motivation for Staff in Your Workplace
We all know that motivated staff work harder and more efficiently. Staff
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Improve senior manager feedback and communication
Positive work force = pleased customers and happy staff
Provide a great environment to work in. Look after your staff the way you expect them to look after your clients or customers. Keep your employees happy by providing what they need in terms of training and genuine support. Give them positive messages where appropriate and constructive feedback where development is needed. Introduce things like an 'employee of the month' award. Reward them and place their photo in a framed picture, it always generates some conversation and smiles!
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It is vital team leaders and managers align their expectations and take into consideration the economic climate when setting targets and objectives. Management and team leaders must encourage their staff to raise their game to achieve attainable and realistic goals. As obvious as it may sound, a major key to motivation and positive attitudes besides goal setting is to keep things fresh. Any job, however rewarding can become monotonous. Include daily or weekly rewards in your incentive programs. Welcome guest speakers or motivational speakers, take it in turns bringing in morning tea, anything to make the day a little different
Training needs to be stimulating, direct and engaging. Good training keeps people up to date and focused on the job. Regular, effective and relevant training is a great motivator. If you want staff to perform properly and consistently then you have to give them the tools to do so. Training keeps people up to date and focused on the job at hand, it keeps their skills at the forefront and shows staff that management are obviously concerned with how well they do their job. If they are given good quality training that covers the topics and issues they are faced with then they will respond and motivate themselves to stick with what they learn.
Improve the work environment
Is the temperature your workers are in comfortable? Are the bins emptied regularly? Is the canteen serving healthy, great food? Simple things, but part of providing motivation for staff is that you need to make sure that the environment staff are working in is conducive to good performance. Everyone likes to work somewhere nice, modern and clean with up to date equipment and furniture.
Listen to your team
Achieving motivation for staff in your workplace comes through how one views motivation. Some think it is impossible to impose motivation upon people, you need to create an environment within which staff can (and will) motivate themselves. This environment comes through really listening to your team. You do not need to agree with everything they are thinking but you do need to understand why they feel certain ways. Understand what problems/worries staff are encountering, what opportunities they see, what is important to them. If you are involving
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- Encourage staff to dress smartly
Even though customers or clients may not come face to face with all your staff, it is important for them to act and look professional at all times. All staff must dress smartly. Putting on smart clothes for work puts you in a professional mindset which can also boost your business confidence and motivation. Gone are the days when the IT guy can wander in with an unironed shirt and look like they have just gotten out of bed! Having everyone dressed for success creates a much better environment for it to happen. Once a week or month have a casual dress day though to allow staff to come in comfortable clothes or express themselves.
- Be motivational yourself
Inspire your staff to work hard and strive for success. Create a more vibrant atmosphere by introducing colour in the work space, use motivational images and pictures to brighten the area. These little, low-cost improvements can make a significant impact on your workforce.You know your staff better than anyone else; if you have new motivational ideas don't be afraid to try them. Sometimes the simplest of changes can make a significant impact on employees' working culture and attitude.
Grahak Cunningham is a business keynote speaker and motivational speaker based in Australia, WA. He is a four time finisher of the worlds longest race which involves running for 18 hours a day for 50 days. Grahak travels domestically and internationally with running and his guest speaker presentations.


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'Preacher' Randy Shupp, bass/baritone, officiated over the "Wedding of the Painted Doll" while the glee club women donned their bridal veils and tiaras for the event.
'Preacher' Randy Shupp, bass/baritone, officiated over the "Wedding of the Painted Doll" while the glee club women donned their bridal veils and tiaras for the event.
Traditional favorites such as "Ave Maria" and "O Holy Night" were performed to perfection by soloists Jim Bracken and Linda Pennington, and virtuoso trumpeter Emil Pilacik rode up hill and down dale with one of the novelty numbers, "Sleigh Ride."
Three free concerts were presented for this "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" musical celebration:
Tuesday, December 6th, 2:00pm at the Masonic Village, 801 Ridge Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA;
Saturday, December 10th, 3:00pm at Hayes Manor, 2210 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, December 13th, 1:00pm at St. Katherine of Sienna Parish, Wayne.
For information about our Holiday Programs and any of our other fine music programs, call the New Horizons Senior Center at 610-664-2366.
Click on this link to this article which appeared in the Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch.
From the 1929 film The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, the New Horizons Senior Glee Club performed "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" in two Holiday Concerts in December, 2010.
|"Newlyweds" Jim Bracken, Sis Gilberg, Mike McDonnell, Shari Steinberg, Anita Beckett and Dennis Haggerty
With rumors flying about the demise of traditional marriage, 20 Glee Club 'brides-to-be' donned veils and bouquets to dramatize this vintage tune - just one of the highlights of the holiday concerts. Soprano Helen Meyers soloed and officiated at the 'ceremony,' while the chorus sang the melody. The lyrics told the whole story about the 'dolls' and the wedding guests who include such Toyland notables as Red Riding Hood, Buster Brown and Jumping Jack.
Other holiday program selections included: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Angels We Have Heard on High featuring the golden trumpet of Emil Pilacik, Hanukah, O Hanukah and Feliz Navidad, energetically executed with percussion backup. Selma Savitz directed and played piano, while George Cocco, Jeanie Young, Anita Beckett and Jerry Kates provided the rhythms.
Capturing the festive spirit of the holidays, the 38 voices of the Glee Club sang a medley of fun 'Santa' songs as well as other musical gems of the season. The ever-popular White Christmas was given a special arrangement featuring an accordion solo by Ed Rifkin. Tenor Jim Bracken delivered the awe inspiring Ave Maria in a stunning duet with Cantor Sandy Gold. Bass-baritone Ron Scott intoned Little Man You've Had a Busy Day, and the entire ensemble concluded the program with the prayer Let There Be Peace on Earth.
The New Horizons Senior Glee Club, based in Narberth, entertains frequently in nursing homes, senior residential facilities, churches, synagogues and other venues. Members range in age from 59 to 91, and have received the Governor's Gold and Silver Award for service to older Pennsylvanians. In May 2011, they will make their 5th consecutive appearance on the Plaza stage of the Kimmel Center in honor of Older Americans Month.
For more information or to schedule a Holiday Concert or other performance, please call 610-664-2458.


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Habakuk: Strong, destroying, satanifying blackened death. 8
Myrkrarfar: Not many black metal bands manage to combine a "Fuck you"-attitude with a more spiritual Satanic aura as well as Deströyer 666 do. Kudos for that. 7
sincan: Fuck you and your shit taste in music, let's send 'em "Hounds at ya Back", check it out, cuntornado. 8
sly: Blackened thrash or thrashy black metal? Whatever the subgenre, this album offers many a great hook and a rejuvenating sensation to the ears amidst this month's sea of dull, uninspired pabulum. 7
Cobal Caldera: Black metal with heavy, speed and thrash metal overtones here and there. Quite fun to listen. As well, and unlike other records of the likes, this one gets an interesting level of depth. 6
Daemonomania: Last few D666 albums were pretty weak, so good to see these guys (just KK) back in action. Plenty of quality "epic" moments, but the production is still a tad too clean. 7
Habakuk: Not sold on the vocals, but an HM2 fuzz overdose remedies that to some extent. 6
Myrkrarfar: All heart and no flair. Thanks. 6
sincan: Skip the drama and just make the rock'n'roll of death music, the latter works out better for me. I'll take Entombed (A.D.) anytime over overproduced macho death swag. 8
sly: Their best days may be long behind them but Entombed (A.D.) seem to be inspired, and thus interesting, once more – giving us this moody Swedish death metal album which puts most young scensters to shame. 8
Cobal Caldera: At first I was like meh, and then, bam! Half this record made it to the AA playlist for this month. Groovy shit, that's for sure! 8
Daemonomania: Has its moments, and that slow crunch/morbid melody combo is as delicious as ever. Yet I can't help but think back to those three masterful "before death" albums aeons ago, and compare this somewhat unfavorably. 6
Habakuk: I fear this will enjoy the same fate as its predecessor, namely fade from a cool first impression pretty quickly. 6
Myrkrarfar: I haven't felt this dirty, rotten and slimy since last I jerked off to your mom. 8
sincan: In through one ear and out the other. It is not bad, yet not interesting. 5
sly: With every release these guys get better and better, managing to sound fresh whilst remaining firmly old-school. Packed with killer riffs, high-level musicianship, and dripping with atmosphere (love the mellotron), Bombs of Hades have released a near-masterpiece of Swedish death metal. 9
Cobal Caldera: Good to hear such an accomplished crusty sound here. The mix with death metal is sinister, heavy, and massive. Really dig this shit. 8
Daemonomania: Crusty death metal with my least-favorite type of evil vocals – you know, the kind that ruined the new Bloodbath? Some nifty solos, but I'd actually rather listen to Entombed A.D. then someone trying to rehash Entombed B.C. again. 4
Habakuk: Confession: I, too, like Motörhead. 7
Myrkrarfar: For every 3-4 beers, the verdict goes up a notch. 5
sincan: You don't have to be Einstein to understand what the album will be all about while reading the title. Punked up metal, like an angrier and drunker Motörhead meets lead guitars meets fuck you some more and vomit in the hair. 7
sly: Starts off with a ripping Motörhead-style track but the novelty wears off and tedium sets in around track three. Competent, yes, but I'll pass. 5
Cobal Caldera: Super metal. Super alcoholic. Super effective. 8
Daemonomania: Imagine the formerly loudest band on earth got an invitation to burn a few churches. What's not to enjoy here? "If the rumors of an acoustic set turns out to be true/Then we'll break in backstage, and piss in your fondue!" 8
Habakuk: Pretentious as Hell, but digestable and not nearly as annoying as "death metal meets classical" implies. 7
Myrkrarfar: All flair and no heart. No thanks. 5
sincan: Symphonical death, let me get away all the puke in my face and those pieces I threw up on you. Okay, not entirely feces material but what the fuck, opera tudeluuuuudeluuu death?!? 4
sly: You know that longing you've always had for Arcturus-style keyboards coupled with something a bit more death metallesque? Well, girls, this is the band for you. But all sarcasm aside, the music we've got here is as vacuous as the combination of the words "fleshgod apocalypse". Seriously, what does that even mean? 4
Cobal Caldera: I'd say most metallers today are not artists, but mere entertainers. That's hardly true for FA. The thing with such grandiloquent records is that if you don't truly engage, they feel indistinct after a while. Quite fun to see CoF and Dimmu haters love this band… 9
Daemonomania: Wow, I'm not sure how I thought these raviolis sounded, but somehow descriptions of them always kept me away. Turns out they sound like Septic Flesh with bigger balls, heightened syphilitic melodrama, and more Amorphis-y cleans. I am planning on buying this album AND their pasta. OK, maybe not their pasta. 8
Habakuk: Sounds like the one before but a little worse. No props from me. 6
Myrkrarfar: Listening to "Rituals" is like watching a skilled blacksmith work on a slab of steel. Fascinating yet boring, competent but monotonous. 6
sincan: Yeah, so they pulled up some "ritualistic" tracks on an album as the name suggests, some good and some relatively phony ones. 6
sly: Old Rotting Christ is some pretty amazing stuff. New Rotting Christ sounds like a shitty soundtrack for a budget remake of the already terrible movie "300". 5
Cobal Caldera: RT have officially developed a unique sound, and unlike other pagan bands, theirs feels completely fulfilled. Not quite metal if you ask me, but great music. 8
Daemonomania: Hey cool, a slower version of Fleshgod Apocalypse! I dig it, but I've already got Satan's Host's "Great American Scapegoat" and Behemoth to satisfy my need for superchunky "ordering off the foreign restaurant menu" metal. ARAKAS KOKINISTOS! SPANAKOPITA! SATANAS! 6
Habakuk: When a band starts to include the Cynic robo vocals, you know the end is nigh. 5
Myrkrarfar: Named after an STD you can get from Liam Gallagher, "Akróasis" sounds more sterile than the conveyor belt at a condom factory. Oh, the irony. 5
sincan: Not my cup of death but if you're into the more progressive part of the genre you might shred your cock in a grinder. 6
sly: Today's tech/prog/whatnot death metal bands all seem to be competing for the crappiest bass sound possible. I just keep hearing the bass tone from the Berlin's "Take My Breathe Away". Not very brootal. 5
Cobal Caldera: I never put much attention to Obscura, but after seeing Steffen Kummerer with DTA last year, I figured I should probably correct that. In fact, this record is kinda hypnotic, as it's full of details, and the structure of the songs invites de listener to get on board and take the tour. Worth a listen indeed! 8
Daemonomania: Continuing on their Cynic-inspired journey through the tech-death cosmos. Not as big on this style as I used to be, but there's no denying the skills on display herein. "Ode to the Sun" adequately fills the "Ocean Gateways" slot. 6
Habakuk: Pretty bland for a "legendary" act, don't you think. 5
Myrkrarfar: Boredom, thou hast a new herald. 5
sincan: It feels like this album never ends and that you more or less hear the same song over and over again. Well, some tracks stand out a little, but it feels like an EP stretched to an hour of music. The vocals are too full of joy and happiness also. 5
sly: The quality of Anthrax's latter-day output has been a slow but steady decline. These days they sound old, tired, and dare I say washed up? I'll stick to seeing them live because I don't recognize them on record anymore. 5
Cobal Caldera: Good record indeed. There's even a rather proggy feel to a few tracks and the final mix is crystal clear. Not a big fan myself, but hey. 7
Daemonomania: Never dug ze 'thrax, so this does nothing for me. Despite the excellent blood eagling in the video. Take that, Jarl Borg! 3
Habakuk: Resistible. 6
Myrkrarfar: Yesss. The Resistance once again prove that you can't have too much punk in your death metal. The grooves and attitude just click into place. Most satisfying. 7
sincan: I think I can resist listening to this. Next! 4
sly: Good humans of GD, I give you The Resistance: the very epitome of generic death metal. It doesn't get much more prosaic and undistinguished than this! 4
Cobal Caldera: Groovy and badass Gothenburg metal à la hardcore. The songs are short and effective, but rather plain and not so distinctive from one another. The riffs are great, but a couple… scratch that, ANY guitar solo would have helped. I wish the grade were higher. 5
Daemonomania: Hatebreed meets old The Haunted. Naps ensue. 3
Habakuk: Borethrash. 6
Myrkrarfar: Now this is how you broaden your sound. I didn't know thrash could sound this fresh and varied in 2016. Stone finally have an heir to Finland's thrash throne. 7
sincan: Modern riff oriented thrashened metal of little dog vocals syndrome. 5
sly: Finland's young Lost Society delivers some rather undercooked "thrash metal" which is, if we're honest, more emo than thrash. They're angsty in a cute sort of way, but I'd advise them not to quit their part-time Pizza Hut jobs. 3
Cobal Caldera: I really don't get the hype about these guys. Don't get me wrong, many, many riffs here kill! And yet, I don't see why I should pick "Braindead" over probably ten more than decent new thrash records that are put out every month. I'd prefer to listen to the faster songs of Anvil's. 4
Daemonomania: I have never heard these riffs before. Flip up your hatbrim and let's eat some pizza! 2
Habakuk: Cool, a band! 3
Myrkrarfar: Cut the fat and this album is solid as fuck. Yer mighty arse don't fit on the throne with them filler track love handles, mates. 6
sincan: Put them blue jeans and boots on and carpe diem like a wild one! 3
sly: An homage to the great Dio, Last in Line features a few ex-Dio members plus a guy called Andrew (vocals). While Andrew is no Ronnie James Dio, he's still not so bad, but the songs are too FM radio and the cover art is absolutely dreadful (shame on you guys). In the end, it's hard for me to say whether this indeed holds some appeal on its own, or if it just seemed marginally refreshing compared to the rest of this month's AA bands… 5
Cobal Caldera: Lemme put it this way: this sounds as though Coby Shaddix could sing, and he joined a grungy heavy rock act. Radio friendly indeed, but not that bad. 5
Daemonomania: More old-man metal, this time with bandmembers who have near-impeccable pedigrees. Not as dumb as Anvil, and therefore not as entertaining. 2
Habakuk: Some inclusion into AA are just plain trolling. Damn you, Myrkrarfar! 2
Myrkrarfar: *to be spoken with thick German accent* "Are you ze Oral?" "Yesch. Am Oral." Who said porn didn't have good dialogue? 5
sincan: Those clean vocals are delivered without any emotions at all, is he even trying? 4
sly: Amoral struggle to decide whether they want to be death metal or power metal. But one thing is sure: Finland is somehow leading Germany and Italy in the championship for the most painful yet remarkably weakest vocals. 3
Cobal Caldera: I can't help it, I'll always like unclassifiable bands like this. Especially when their songs make sense. Power metal? My ass. Progressive? Not… quite. Melodic? You bet. 8
Daemonomania: Have I become more "euro" by listening to this? I suddenly feel the urge to rush out and make a gloryhole in a public restroom. Freaky stuff! 1
Habakuk: 15 minutes of fame are 15 minutes. Are over. 3
Myrkrarfar: The retirement home beckons. Stupid lyrics, auto-tuned vocals (?!?!) and tired Lemmy-ripoffs. Shit. 2
sincan: Well, the songwriting is painfully bad on the tracks I managed to listen to. 3
sly: Starting with what's got to be one of the worst opening tracks ever, Anvil make Anthrax sound like fresh young bucks, and remind us just why they faded into oblivion. 4
Cobal Caldera: Anvil will be Anvil. 5
Daemonomania: It's hard not to crack a smile while listening to this elderly folks heavy metal. Maybe it's the Manowar/Priest fan in me, dunno. Utterly generic and dumb, and no solos that were obviously performed with a vibrator/dildo, but still entertaining. 6
Habakuk: "Totally sounds like In Mourning" he thought, while he gently dozed off. 6
Myrkrarfar: Does the world really need another Amon Amarth clone, yet poppier and with a moniker more stupid than your mom? Fuck no. 3
sincan: I can't stop thinking about Amon Amarth while listening to this album and I guess I'd rather listen to them actually. 5
sly: Oh joy! More awful Finnish melodic death metal with wretched vocals. The ecstasy… It's overwhelming… 3
Cobal Caldera: Over-arranged Amon Amarth. And that's saying a lot. 4
Daemonomania: I stopped listening to most melodeath years ago. So I'll leave it to someone else to explain why this sounds so cookie-cutter. Keyboards and cleans? Gehennah should piss in their fondue. 1
Habakuk: Much modern. 6
Myrkrarfar: I'll have to cleanse my ears with some "Kronet til konge" after this techprogdjenty feast void of testicles. 3
sincan: Boring is boring. Modern technical something which I can't name. 5
sly: The texture of this prog/emo/core/bullshit blend is about as appealing to me as a bowl of liver/oysters/lima beans/snail eggs. Yum. Also, how whiny can one douchebag be?! Get the fuck out of here. 0
Cobal Caldera: It's evident these guys can definitely play… and I can DEFINITELY live without their cory-proggy-whatevery stuff. 4
Daemonomania: Oh great, someone decided to mix Meshuggah with metalcore! With great clean vocals to boot! Gethefuckouttahere. 1


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Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance.
Nicho, Mathew
Khan, Shafaq
Rahman, M.S.M.K
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NICHO, M., KHAN, S. and RAHMAN, M.S.M.K. 2017. Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance. In the Proceedings of the international conference on computer and applications (ICCA 2017), 6-7 September 2017, Dubai, UAE. New York: IEEE [online], pages 56-66. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMAPP.2017.8079741
This paper aims to demonstrate the building blocks of an IT Governance Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) model as well the phased stages of the optimal integration of IT GRC frameworks, standards and model through a longitudinal study. A qualitative longitudinal single case study methodology through multiple open-ended interviews were conducted over a period of four years (July 2012 to November 2015) in a retail financial institution. Our empirical study contributes to both academic research and practice in IT GRC. First, we identified the various building blocks of IT GRC domain from vertical as well as horizontal perspectives. Second, we methodologically demonstrated the gradual metamorphosis of the evolution of an IT GRC from a single ITG framework to multiple IT GRC building blocks. The journey thus throws light on the gradual staged process of attaining maturity in IT GRC by an organization. The resultant IT GRC model thus, guides managerial actions towards a better understanding of the positioning of IT GRC building blocks in an organization through the understanding of the interaction of vertical and horizontal domains. The results of the paper thus enable practitioners and academics to better understand and evaluate IT GRC implementation for effective governance, reduce risk and ensure compliance in organizations.


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CFP deadline: 13 June 2014
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth and Kings' College London will be accepting submissions for papers for the following event:
Connected histories of decolonisation workshop on the 14th of November 2014
The recent rise of global history has prompted much reflection amongst imperial historians about the interconnections and cross-influences that existed between and amongst past empires, stretching across vast spatial and chronological frameworks. Taking as its starting point this new trend in historical research, this workshop will explore the connections, entanglements and transnational links between different twentieth century decolonisation processes. In particular, this study day seeks to bring to light the ways in which people, ideas and practices, from both the global North and South, crossed national and colonial borders, and how these connections, in turn, impacted upon on the decline of European colonialism. By going beyond a narrow, nation-state perspective, this workshop aims to break down boundaries in the history of decolonisation, challenging, for example, the divides between the British, French and Portuguese empires, but also, more widely, binaries such as colonial/ post-colonial, metropole/ periphery, coloniser/ colonised.
Suggested areas for exploration include (but are by no means limited to):
• The participation by European actors in another European power's colonial empire and how these external interventions both promoted and impeded efforts to decolonise.
• How the decolonisation of one colonial empire was perceived by other European colonial powers, the indigenous populations of the European colonial empires, and on a wider international scale.
• Interconnections within the global South with regards to the decolonisation process, not only between those with shared aims, but also amongst those with opposing objectives (for example, between European settlers and African nationalists)
• Local, national and international responses to the Western rhetoric of decolonisation.
• The role played in the decolonisation process by international institutions and transnational groupings/ affiliations.
General queries should be sent to Professor Philip Murphy at email@example.com
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words in the form of title and abstract to Dr Joanna Warson at email@example.com


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I think this is a fantastic idea. Good reasoning, the quality of an arguament and deabting issues that have no clear yes or no is something that I frequently feel is missing from society.
In the interest of putting forward an opposite arguament (and hence not giving a clear yes or no) it could be very hard to teach issues such as morality without the teacher letting their own feelings get forced onto the class, as I remember happening once at school when we were 'forming a country' in sixth form.
Anyway, what do you guys (especially new teacher bambi) think?
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Philosphy in Schools
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- TheTelf said...
It's a good idea in theory - anything that provokes more logical argument and abstract discussion from a young age is fine with me, though some of that should certainly come at home, too.
I'd be interested to see how well younger kids pick up on philosophical concepts - whether they are willing to argue a point, or whether they just accept whatever they're told. Though teaching kids to question everything and argue every point down to the wire is possibly something their parents might not appreciate.
If it can impart a mindset of critical thinking, though, then it's absolutely something to be considered.
Your point about the teacher's own views coming into it is a very valid one too, James, though it's certainly not limited to the philosophy classroom.
What's the Sixth Form country thing you were thinking of?
- 3 July 2008 at 12:54
- James said...
It was a whole 6th form thing where we pretended we'd founded a country and were debating the laws it should have. Basically one of the geography teachers, whose name I forget, completely sided with one side of each issue and tried to force it on everyone so that when we voted on it everyone went with him. I ended up voting against him as a silent protest.
There was also Mr Carter pushing his green views in biology.
That said it's must be pretty hard to sit back and listen to kids' uninformed opinions of the world without stepping and 'correcting' them.
- 3 July 2008 at 13:22
- TheTelf said...
Huh, I really don't remember that at all :s
Agree with your last point - would be difficult to watch kids setting up an ultra-conservative theocracy without wanting to get stuck in and point out how wrong they were.
- 3 July 2008 at 15:57
- immedia reaction said...
I think it sounds like a good idea, they should teach rhetoric and debating as well :)
- 3 July 2008 at 17:02
Sounds to me like several of the things they are proposing are (or should be) already enacted in schools. "Fairness, morality and punishment" are all covered under the Citizenship/PSHE umbrella; as for the interpretation of literature in a philosophical way, I'd hope that any decent English teacher would try to do that with every class, albeit to varying degrees of complexity.
I'm not averse to the teaching of Philosophy in schools. However, I think that introducing it as another subject, compulsory or otherwise, is the wrong way to do it. The National Curriculum has just had a major revision which comes into effect for Year 7 in September, and one of the key things it is proposing is more cross-curricular work to break down the segmentation of schooling into discrete subjects. I think if Philosophy is introduced, it should be done in a drip-feed fashion into all subjects, rather than creating yet another subject with a set of exams at the end.
As for pupils making uninformed choices and teacher intervention, there's room for both. One of the best ways to show pupils why something doesn't work is to let them try it, see it not working and engage with why it didn't work. Additionally, teachers are generally in the job because they want to pass something on to their pupils, and this will inevitably contain part of their own personality and opinion. It's then the pupil's prerogative to decide whether they agree or disagree with the teacher. I'm sure there were teachers when you were at school who you thought talked a load of bollocks, but others thought were really clever and insightful, and vice versa.
Anyway, that's my ramble :-D
- 3 July 2008 at 17:15
- TheTelf said...
It's not exactly the same thing, but one of my friends has set up a kind of coaching organisation that travels around schools teaching children to debate, form persuasive arguments and speak publicly. So I thought I'd plug that, while we're roughly on the subject. :P
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Buemi set the pace at first testing
Sebastien Buemi proved to be the fastest racer during the first official pre-season Formula E testing at Donington Park.
The Renault e.dams driver and championship runners-up from last season set the time at 1:32.092 to beat Lucas Di Grassi from ABT Audi team by 0.063 seconds, while Nicolas Prost, the second Renault e.dams driver, was third with 1:32.286.
This was also first public session, so many fans got a glimpse of what they should expect in the new season. However, only 14 cars were seen on the track as Andretti team decided to stay in the garage, just as Trulli team. Another disappointing but not entirely unexpected moment was a brief rain shower in the mid-session which caused the testing to be halted for a while.
There were also two debutants. Former Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve in Venturi who finished 14th, just behind reigning champion Nelson Piquet, and Frenchman Tom Dillmann in Team Aguri's car who was 9th.
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2. Lucas di Grassi (ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport) 1:32.158
3. Nicolas Prost (Renault e.dams) 1:32.286
4. Sam Bird (DS Virgin Racing) 1:32.523
5. Salvador Duran (Team Aguri) 1:32.549
6. Bruno Senna (Mahindra Racing) 1:35.653
7. Nick Heidfeld (Mahindra Racing) 1:35.700
8. Jerome D'Ambrosio (Dragon Racing) 1:36.324
9. Tom Dillmann (Team Aguri) 1:36.329
10. Stephane Sarrazin (Venturi) 1:36.361
11. Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Virgin Racing) 1:36.704
12. Loic Duval (Dragon Racing) 1:37.987
13. Nelson Piquet Jr (NEXTEV TCR) 1:38.052
14. Jacques Villeneuve (Venturi) 1:38.176
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