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Audio recording in Sways, the top requested from educators is now availabe with the latest update rolling out on Tuesday, lets you now add audio recordings to make your Sway more interactive and engaging. Sway can recording is supported in browser such as Edge (on Windows) or Chrome (on a Mac or Chromebook).
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The term mechatronic is commonly used for systems consisting of both mechanical and electrical parts, i.e. a special kind of multi-domain system. An electric motor is a common example of such a system, and a DC-motor (DC = Direct Current) is the simplest kind of electrical motor.
Modeling a DC-motor illustrates the ease of constructing multi-domain models in Modelica simply by connecting components from different domains. This particular model contains components from three domains: mechanical components such as inertia1, the electrical components resistor1, inductor1, signalVoltage1, and ground1 as well as pure signal components such as step1.
A multi-domain DCMotorCircuit model with mechanical, electrical andsignal-block components.
IMPORTANT: To simulate the DCMotorCircuit model, you first need to select all group cells containing all needed models below, and push shift-return.
The DCMotorCircuit class is declared below. What is different from previous examples is that certain connections couple components from different domains, e.g. the signal block step1 is connected to the electrical component signalVoltage1 and the electrical component emf1 is connected to the mechanical component inertia1.
To avoid confusion with the translational Flange_a connector class we have renamed the rotational flange connector class to be called RotFlange_a in this example, even though it is called Flange_a in Mechanics.Rotational.Interfaces library. Connectors have the same names as their classes apart from the first letter being lower-case, and a number being appended at the end.
In the following we present the DCMotorCircuit model including its parts and used classes in roughly a top-down manner, with the most interesting parts first. This gives the best overview and is also fine from a Modelica language point of view since classes can be used before they are defined.
The DCMotorCircuit model contains instances of mechanical, electrical and signal classes, which are declared below.
The Inertia class models the behavior of rotating masses. It inherits some properties from the base class Rigid.
The EMF class below converts electrical energy to rotational mechanical energy. The instance emf1 of class EMF (Electro Magnetic Force) is probably the most interesting component in the circuit since it converts electrical energy to mechanical rotational energy. This class is an idealized model of the most important properties of a voltage-to-rotation converter excluding resistance, inductance and inertia.
The rest of the declared classes are the usual simple electrical components which are presented once more for completeness.
The signalVoltage class converts an input signal to a voltage. This is used in the DCMotorCircuit to convert a step signal generated by the step1 instance of the simplified Step class below to a step voltage. The full version of the Step class that can handle any number of input and output signals. The combination of the step1 and signalVoltage1 components is a voltage generator that feeds a step voltage into the rest of the circuit. The partial class MO is simply a base class inherited by Step.
The following are different types from the library Modelica.SIunits used by the DCMotorCircuit model.


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Do you watch the Super Bowl every year? If so, are you one of those fans who stays glued to the TV screen for the entire length of the game, hanging on to every play? Or do you have the game on in the background, kind of keeping up with what's going on while you do your laundry? Maybe your significant other watches it, and you don't understand football at all. It seems to go on forever, and you really just want to catch the commercials.
Your degree of interest in the big game every year probably depends on how well you understand how football is played, how exciting you find the sport and how much patience you have for following something that can get a bit complicated.
The basic principles of holding a viewer's interest apply to readers, too. When you write an essay, you want your ideas to be easily understood and your points to be interesting. You want to maximize the impact of your paragraphs on your reader.
You'll never catch me watching the Super Bowl for the simple fact that I don't understand how football is played, so watching the game for hours would be really, really boring. If I had even a basic sense of the rules of the sport, I'd probably find the big event at least a little bit interesting.
You may have had the experience of reading something that you didn't understand - maybe a technical instruction manual or the textbook for a subject that went over your head - and you no doubt found that experience frustrating and mind-numbingly boring. Something as seemingly straightforward as a student essay can come across badly to the reader, too, if the paragraphs are not structured to be clear and easily understood. There are two major fixes for this:
A good, clear topic sentence not only helps you keep each body paragraph unified and focused, but it also, quite simply, alerts your reader to what you'll be talking about and potentially eliminates a lot of confusion. A reader who gets halfway through the paragraph and is still wondering what you're getting at is a reader you've lost.
Your second quick fix for ensuring clarity and eliminating reader confusion is working on coherence in your essay paragraphs. Again, to achieve coherence, you'll need to structure your sentences in a logical way so that your points are made clearly. So, you might relate a brief story in chronological order - being sure not to backtrack and add details that you forgot to mention earlier - or you might deduce a point by first stating a general principle and then proceed to prove that principle by offering supportive facts and details.
Think about the experience of a football fan who watches his or her favorite team execute complicated plays and break specific records with just the right line-up of players. Compare that with the experience of somebody who's watching a bunch of interchangeable guys run around for four hours doing...something.
You've no doubt read boring essays in your life, and maybe some of them were written by you. A key to making your essay interesting and effective is to ensure that it's fully developed. An essay is well-developed when it includes sufficient and appropriate supporting details and examples. A paper with paragraphs that aren't well-developed is, simply put, vague and boring.
Let's say that you're writing a paper arguing that your city should make it illegal for drivers to use cell phones while behind the wheel. Your major persuasive points might be that cell phone use is clearly a distracting behavior and that distracted drivers cause a high number of car accidents. If you keep your points overly broad and general, without getting into specific examples, your paper will suffer from lack of thorough development. Not only will your reader wind up bored, but your instructor will deduct points because you haven't supported your arguments.
So, to capture your reader's interest - and ratchet up your grade - you'll need to get specific. You could develop your body paragraphs by providing statistics of accident rates in other cities with cell phone bans for drivers before and after the laws were put in place. You could also make an emotional appeal to your reader by briefly relating the story of a family that has been affected by an accident caused by texting and driving. By doing this, you'll engage your reader and provide evidence to support your argument.
So, in order for your essay to be clear and easily understood, you'll include a topic sentence near the start of each body paragraph, and you'll use a clear and logical order for your supporting sentences. In order to fully develop your paragraph and capture your reader's interest, you'll include plenty of supporting details and examples.
In order to maximize the impact of your paragraphs on your reader, you'll want to think about your writing style and how you'll present all of this information. One question that students often have when it comes to structuring paragraphs is how long they should be. We know we need a topic sentence, some supporting sentences in the middle and, sometimes, a concluding sentence that wraps up our points for the paragraph. But just how many sentences should go in the middle?
There's not a hard and fast rule that tells us how many sentences a paragraph should have. If you're working on a timed essay exam and you need to assess quickly whether your paragraphs are a reasonable length, a good rule of thumb is that each paragraph should be in the ballpark of around six or seven sentences (including your topic sentence and concluding sentence). Some effective paragraphs are quite short, though.
If you find that your paragraph is getting to around ten sentences or so, you should consider breaking it up into smaller paragraphs so that your reader can follow your ideas more easily. Think about the football viewer who gets lost in the complexities of the game as it drags on and on. A paragraph that takes up a full page can get confusing and may be hard for a reader to wade through. You don't want your reader to be tempted to skip a long, unwieldy paragraph.
As you write your essay, think also about varying your sentence structure. In other words, don't use the same pattern or structure for each sentence in a paragraph, and try to avoid using several overly short sentences. Let's say you were to write the following sentences in one of your body paragraphs:
'Drivers who use cell phones cause accidents. These accidents could be prevented. Our city should pass a law banning cell phone use by drivers. This law should be strictly enforced. This law would make our roads safer.'
You may notice that these sentences have the same rhythm and that they have a short subject-verb construction - meaning that they are all brief sentences that feature the subject first followed quickly by the verb. Teachers want to see that you can use more complex sentence structure. For example:
'Drivers who use cell phones cause accidents that could be prevented. To reduce the number of car accidents, our city should pass a law banning cell phone use by drivers. If this law were strictly enforced, our roads would be safer.'
Avoiding short subject-verb sentences tends to make your writing a bit more interesting, and your reader may be more engaged with your paper.
Remember that you want to structure your essay paragraphs - and the sentences within those paragraphs - in such a way that your readers don't end up with glazed-over expressions. Work on making your paragraphs clear and easily understood by employing topic sentences and a clear and logical order for your sentences to achieve coherence.
Try to capture your reader's interest by writing well-developed paragraphs featuring vivid supporting details and examples. And maximize the impact of your paragraphs by ensuring that they don't end up too long. Six or seven sentences is a reasonable rule of thumb. Work on varied sentence structure so that you don't fall into a repetitive pattern of short, subject-verb sentences.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) spent the second quarter (Q2) of 2016 comfortably perched atop the cloud infrastructure services market, according to the latest data from Strategy Analytics. The cloud infrastructure services category includes the infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and hosted private cloud segments.
During the quarter, the market grew a staggering 51 percent year-over-year, crossing the $8 billion mark in quarterly revenues and nearly generating $28 billion in sales for the 12-month period ending June 30, said the research group.
AWS claimed over 30 percent of the market, with a year-on-year growth rate of 53 percent. Microsoft was a distant second with just over 10 percent of the market, despite a feverish growth rate of 100 percent. IBM took third place and Google came in fourth, growing at a rate of 57 percent and 162 percent respectively.
"Amazon/AWS remains far ahead and in a league of its own, despite some valiant efforts from the other big three cloud providers," said John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group, in an email to Datamation. "Microsoft and Google continue to achieve triple-digit growth rates and IBM too is growing rapidly; but Amazon's worldwide market share remains well over 30 percent and is considerably larger than its three closest competitors combined."
AWS is generating both increased sales and profits for the ecommerce giant. Last week, during an earnings conference call, Amazon executives revealed that AWS had generated $2.9 billion in revenue during the second quarter, a 58-percent improvement. "Amazon Web Services' operating income was $718 million, a 24.9-percent operating margin compared with $305 million in the prior year," said Amazon's CFO, Brian T. Olsavsky, during the call.
Essentially, the top four providers have the resources to capitalize on the explosive worldwide demand for enterprise cloud services.
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Most problems in prisons originate outside their walls. The police and courts leave varied groups of offenders at the gate, and prisons must do the best they can to sequester these persons. Prisons function as does one's stomach, digesting that which is often indigestible. If the police decide to arrest young gang members, the prison to which these young men are committed will experience a gang problem, consisting of drug trafficking, violent warfare, and the intimidation of nonaffiliated prisoners. If mental patients are jailed for disturbing the peace or annoying their neighbors, the prison must deal with serious mental health issues on an increasing scale. Mental health issues are subdivided into component challenges, such as having to arrange for psychiatric services, and having to enforce prison rules on persons whose symptoms include very sloppy housekeeping, sporadic suicide attempts or unprovoked assaults.
In the 1990s, the salient problems posed for prison systems included: (1) the waging of the war on drugs, which created an influx of drug-related offenders, (2) the advent of sentencing "reforms," which produced a proliferation of prisoners with long determinate sentences, and (3) the increased use of adult courts for dealing with serious violent delinquents. All three of these developments contribute to the problems of prisons, but do so in different ways.
See also CORRECTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATIONS; DETERRENCE; INCAPACITATION; JAILS; JUVENILE JUSTICE: INSTITUTIONS; PRISONERS, LEGAL RIGHTS OF; PRISONS: HISTORY; PRISONS: CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS; PRISONS: PRISONERS; PRISONS: PRISONS FOR WOMEN; REHABILITATION; RETRIBUTIVISM.


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"In the coming months and years, the Internet is going to play a hugely significant role across our region, and particularly in Uganda. It's an exciting time to join Google, as their African team grows", says Ham. "I am looking forward to being back in Uganda and helping to make the Internet accessible, relevant and useful for Ugandans, and also helping Ugandan enterprises take advantage of the online world to grow their businesses"
Joe Mucheru, Google Lead for Sub Saharan Africa said: "Google sees great potential in the Ugandan market. We are delighted to have Ham on board, bringing his expertise and knowledge to help fulfill that potential."
Prior to joining Google, Ham worked as a consultant for the leading Strategy firm Bain & Company in their Los Angeles office. In this role, Ham articulated and drove detailed, data driven strategic initiatives for C-level clients in Fortune 500 companies within the Media & Entertainment, Semi-conductor, Consumer Products and Healthcare industries. Prior to assuming his previous role at Bain & Co., Ham held a series of engineering and ICT policy development roles with the Uganda Communications Commission.
Ham holds a B.S. in Electronics from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, an M.S. in Operational Telecommunications from Coventry University and an M.B.A from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


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5 Teacher Myths and How to Dispel Them: The Truth About Teaching in America — 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
This podcast was originally published on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Aaron Pribble on episode 260 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Teachers are not all saints, nor are they all slackers. — These are just two of the myths that social studies teacher Aaron Pribble tackles in this motivating, uplifting talk about what it is really like to be a teacher in America today. Aaron Pribble is the author of Teacherland: Inside the Myth of the American Educator.
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Bitter rot of pears is primarily an orchard disease. In the past it was fairly widespread in pear-growing regions east of the Rocky Mountains. The disease is of little economic importance now because of effective spray programs. Its occurrence is restricted mainly to those producing regions where hot humid weather prevails for days at a time during the growing season, and where the spray program is inadequate.
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The four-time world champion has been in untouchable form of late and has built a significant lead in the overall standings. He hasn't won in Italy since 2014, however, so there is at least some hope for his rivals to fight back this time around.
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Saturday, June 2
8:55 a.m. BST/3:55 a.m. ET: Free Practice
12:30 a.m. BST/7:30 a.m. ET: Free Practice
1:10 p.m. BST/8:10 a.m. ET: Qualifying
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Marquez's recipe for success is no big secret―the defending world champion rarely gives up a lead, so he'll gun for the top spot early and ride a nearly flawless race once he gets there.
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The top man in Italy over the last decade has been Jorge Lorenzo, who has won five of the last seven races at Mugello.
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peripatetic precipitates: on nature, healing, and homecoming
A column by Craig Chalquist, PhD
Awakening to the End of Daze
We live admidst the ruins of failed isms. -- David Orr, Down to the Wire, 177
In the Year of Our Lord 999, fear spread throughout Christian Europe as the preachers of doom brought word of the End of Days. The calendar of the first millennium would stop, they said, and the sinful world along with it. People prayed feverishly, mended some of their ways, even stockpiled food for the great event; but when the sun rose on January 1, 1000, life went on as usual.
Despite a repeat performance on Y2K, some of us still insist on going apocalyptic. The date has been set forward to 2012, when the Mayan calendar is said to end. Otherwise intelligent people are warning about marauding planets unknown to science and solar systems passing through or aligning with the center of the galaxy (30,000 light years away at last calculation). In this latest literalization of what could be held instead as symbolic and mythic, the 2012ers find themselves newly aligned, in this case with fundamentalist believers predicting a spectacular end of the world followed by a heavenly (for them) ascension.
As worried eyes turn heavenward, Earth below endures still further human abuse, a weary mother of near-infinite patience, the occasional earthquake or tsunami aside.
On reflection, perhaps something is coming to an end: not the great globe itself, but our immature relationship with it.
Humanity has come through a long and, toward the end, troubled childhood. From a rift valley in Africa we walked around the planet, finally taking up agriculture, urbanization, and writing in the Fertile Crescent. From there we entered a long Age of Empires that brought institutionalized warfare, slavery, patriarchy, and tyranny, forms of alienation that coincided with a crucial shift in collective consciousness: once held sacred, Earth had become an object, a cafeteria, a resource.
Today, our adolescence peaks at a crucial juncture: a Great Turning (as Joanna Macy calls it) from the industrial growth paradigm of modernity to life-sustaining models of Earth-based society. Successful experiments with these new models--and the new visions of community, economy, and democracy they unfold --have sprouted all over the world.
Too late? Our best science tells us we live on the edge of runaway climate change. As David Orr emphasizes in Down to the Wire, quick technological fixes might apply bandaids here and there but cannot reverse decades of political, psychological, and financial malfeasance. Its environmental effects will be with us for at least another millennium. The Earth we knew is changing irrevocably, its ice caps melting into streaming tears of mourning. Our children and theirs will toil on a hotter, drier, less predictable and less hospitable planet. The Edenic security of the cradle that held us: that at least is going away.
But so are the beliefs and attitudes that led to these terrestrial mutations. Empires, religions, and nation-states find themselves unable to solve the problems of our day, which is another way of saying that these institutions are obsolete. One way or another, the period of politics as usual--a period stretching back at least to 2,400 BCE, when Sargon the First conquered Sumer--is coming to a close. All around us gigantic corporations battle for supremacy and dwindling resource, their piratical chiefs resolved to get in a few final raids. Banks closing down on every side are merely the first of the modernist dinosaurs caught by the rising waves of inevitable change. Their officers sense what our apocalyptic visions register: the great turning of the tide is now at hand.
So, perhaps, is our adolescence
as we learn new ways to come home to Earth as responsible adults, free
of omnipotent fantasies of luxury and power, seasoned by adversity, wary
of those who desire power, suspicious of seductive single solutions, and
fully aware that planetary integrity and human health are inseparable.
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Martin Luther School
2616 Connecticut Avenue
Joplin, MO 64870
Phone: (417) 624-1403
Lyla Glaskey, middle school religion and social studies teacher, graduated from Concordia-Seward, NE with a degree in both elementary and secondary education. Prior to teaching at Martin Luther, Mrs. Glaskey served at Lutheran School Association in Cole Camp, Missouri and Immanuel Lutheran School in Washington, Missouri.
Mrs. Glaskey is mom is Samuel and Hannah, both proud students at Martin Luther. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Glaskey herself is an alumna of Martin Luther School. Mrs. Glaskey's husband, Jason, serves here at Immanuel as Minister to Youth and Families. Her mother, Saundra Dover, was school secretary at Martin Luther for many years.
Mrs. Glaskey is trained in Love and Logic and enjoys presenting to parents and teachers. She also enjoys writing curriculum for Concordia Publishing House and writing a column on classroom discipline for Teacher Interaction magazine. Mrs. Glaskey serves on the Bible Study Team for the LCMS National Youth Gathering, and it is one of her favorite ways of serving the Lord.
Mrs. G loves working with middle schoolers. She thinks it's exciting to work with students as they move from concrete to abstract thinking skills. She also feels honored to help students discover the strengths and talents God has given them. She strives to help students develop those gifts and find ways to use them to serve God and others.
Lyla Glaskey
Middle School


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In the United States there are numerous unused nuclear reactors. These reactors could be brought into electricity production within a relatively short timeframe.
The electrical energy produced by these reactors could be utilized to convert water into hydrogen by one of several processes. This hydrogen could be further reacted with carbon dioxide to produce methanol. It is time to openly and thoroughly examine the feasibility of using our built and unutilized nuclear infrastructure to produce hydrogen based fuels.
While nuclear energy is feared by many, it is a greatly misunderstood resource.
Nuclear power is utilized as a prime energy source in countries like France and Sweden. In the United States, where nuclear energy supplies about 20% of our electrical power, not one American has been killed in a nuclear accident involving radiation exposure.
On the other hand, thousands of Americans have been killed as a result of our energy dependence, and the funds that our oil dependence funnels to terrorist sponsoring regimes.


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Monday, 1 March 2010
Stirred and Shaken
My camera gear was in the boot, and given the state of the car it is a tribute to Lowepro bags that it was undamaged.
I haven't had a chance to look at most of the images yet - but this is probably the highlight of the Saturday. Quite an expensive image though given that it cost me my car. But I guess it could have been much worse...
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wow Your guardian angel surely deserves a bonus, and as you said, better to loose a car than to loose something else. You were very lucky man, and I'm happy you did not get hurt or with broken something....ReplyDelete
Your picture is really nice and I hope you will still enjoy the other pictures when you will post-treat them...
Cars can be replaced. So glad to hear you are ok after such an experience.ReplyDelete
Smashing TC image. FAB.
So thankful that you are OK, and that your camera equipment also survived. Sounds like quite a fright you had. Great little image you shared, look forward to more later~ Take care!ReplyDelete
Thanks for all the kind words. Its only really beginning to hit me now just how fortunate I was.ReplyDelete
Hey this bird 'Treecreeper' is such a cute and small bird..I must say that this is a nice and very close shot of treecreeper.ReplyDelete
Hi Ian. You have a great blog with a very beautiful shots! Congratulations from Portugal. Jorge Sousa www.ibernatur.blogspot.comReplyDelete


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FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 02, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Farmers Capital Bank Corporation (NASDAQ:FFKT) (the "Company") is ending the practice of mailing paper press releases to shareholders effective September 1, 2015. All press releases can be found on the Company's website – www.farmerscapital.com – under "Investor Relations". The website also provides a notification service sign-up which will email postings of press releases to interested parties. You can find this on the website by clicking on the "Join our Listserve" link.
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Farmers Capital Bank Corporation is a bank holding company headquartered in Frankfort, Kentucky. The Company operates 35 banking locations in 22 communities throughout Central and Northern Kentucky, a data processing company, and an insurance company. Its stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC exchange in the Global Select Market tier under the symbol: FFKT.
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Journey went today for his official 15 month WCV.
Are ya'll ready for this???
He was 22 lbs 12 oz (22nd percentile) and 31.5 INCHES (57th percentile!!!!!) I made them measure him twice because that means he went up 3.3 inches in 3 months! Weight wise we seem to have hit that point where the weight slows down. He only gained 12 oz in 3 months.
He got 2 shots. The pediatrician wasn't happy with how far he's falling behind on his shots. Oh well. We'll get the religious excemption form so they will leave us alone about it.
And we got a referral for a 2nd opinion for Journey's therapy. She feels that he needs at least twice a week theapy sessions in both occupational and speech therapy. She is going to allow us to get him evaluated at the place River goes to. YAY! Figures now that we're switching pediatricians she decides to actually DO something. Oh well.
In other news.
Our car died on Mother's Day. We found out Monday that the timing belt snapped and because of the way the engine is built it basically destroyed the engine. Repair costs? over 3000 dollars. We decided not to waste the money on a car that already had 105,100 miles on it and we went out on Tuesday and went car shopping. We are the owners of a 2006 Chevy HHR and it only has 21,500 miles on it. The car payments are a bit more than we wanted but we can handle it. We are very happy with the car.
School has been going very well. I'm almost half way through the 3rd semester. It's ALOT harder than I thought it would be to do this program with 2 children. The work load is alot more strenuous and there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. I'm really hoping to maintain the 4.0 for the semester but we'll see. My diet on the other hand hasn't been going very well. I've been stressed out over school and what not and just have not been adhering to proper eating habits. The scales showed it. I'm back on track today but I'm also expecting that wonderful monthly visitor at some point in the next few days so I'm not expecting the scales to be very kind for the next week or so either.
River is doing SO MUCH BETTER. We still have our issues every so often and he's still very opinionated, demanding, and tiring but he's doing alot better. He gets his temper under control alot more. We have to tell him NO or STOP alot less. He is doing much better with articulating his words and it's making it much easier to understand him. Now that it's sunny and warm most days we have the boys outside ALOT and that's helping him mellow out as well I think. He starts school August 24th, we are SO ready.
Oh and just incase you are curious as to what his shirt says it says "I run on Super Power" LOL
Cheli On Monday, May 18, 2009
Posted by Cheli at 7:39 AM
4 comments:
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Such adorable boys! Journey is looking like such a big boy! Congrats on the new car.
- May 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM
- prayers4z said...
Oh my goodness...I love those pictures! Your boys are so cute!!!
- May 30, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- Night Owl Mama said...
Looks like are two little one's are close in age. luv the one soc on and one off picture too cute. they look like they have a lot of fun together.
WOW a 4.0 grade average that is wonderful.
AND a new car wooo whooo
weight loss and eating healthy always come for me during the summer. Hang in there
- June 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Tutu said...
HI!! I found your blog link on the AOL board. I have wondered how things are going for you. The boys are adorable and getting so big. You look GREAT congrats on all the weight loss!!
- June 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM
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Once I get that new Camera, I'll take Great Photos!
It seems that photographers are in an arms race, trying to out muscle each other with the latest DSLR or Mirrorless shooter.
I'm sure this is at least partially due to marketing from the major camera manufacturers, but I've met many photographers with adequate cameras who are looking to take 'better' photos and believe that requires them to upgrade to a better camera.
I'll admit, I have been considering upgrading my camera, perhaps the a6500, or maybe the a7rII?
The fact is, better images don't come from better cameras, but more experienced photographers and sometimes better lenses (in most cases).
Where does experience come from? You guessed it, practice!
I'm saying this to myself as much as anyone else; If you want to take better photos, you have to practice taking good photos. (of course, once your camera starts to limit your photography, it is certainly time to find something new.)
I've shot almost 50,000 images on my Sony a6000 in less than three years. But just shooting lots of photos isn't the key, its about quality practice – putting yourself in situations with good light, interesting subject, and then trying to achieve certain photos or learn new techniques.
Just bringing your camera along and snapping some casual shots in the middle of the day likely won't improve your skills very much.
Anders Ericsson and Malcolm Gladwell are two authors who have a lot of interesting things to say about practice, with Malcolm introducing the popular 10,000 hour rule. I particularly appreciate their ideas on deliberate or purposeful practice.
Deliberate practice is the structured activity done with the specific goal of improvement. In other words, putting a certain amount of planning and effort into shooting photos, and even focusing on certain techniques or types of photos.
There are four basic parts to Deliberate Practice:
- You have to be Motivated
- The Practice should Match your Skill Level
- You should Get Feedback on your Results
- Repeat the Practice
This article offers some additional details.
How does that translate to photography? Well first you have to be self motivated to improve. No one else can improve for you. Then consider where you are at, what you already know, and think about what you want to learn, or get better at.
For me, I have always enjoyed shooting long exposure photos. I remember one of the first times I tried shooting car trails on a busy highway at night. I spent a few hours beforehand looking up how to do it, and then familiarizing myself with what settings I needed on my camera. I ended up with some acceptable results, but also continued to return and practice many times.
The third part of deliberate practice is to get feedback. I have, on a few occasions, received honest feedback and it has been very helpful in continuing to improve my photography.But I'll be honest, I typically just share my photos on Instagram or Facebook which generates a lot of really encouraging feedback that I appreciate, but not usually critical feedback which is beneficial. (If you would like feedback from me, or better yet, give me feedback about my photos, I am always open to that.)
And finally, repeat, as often as you can, until you become proficient.
One technique I've found very useful for improving my photos has been to visualize the final image, and then try to create it. I don't always succeed, especially not on the first try, but it gives my motivation to keep trying until I do, or at least get close.
I hope this gives you some motivation to shoot photos and deliberately practice and improve!
I'll leave you with this quote from Malcolm Gladwell:
"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."
Thanks for reading!


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I have a group of, shall we say, fertility challenged friends. We get together once a month, at least, we laugh, we share, we offer support. This weekend, we got to do something a little different, we got to celebrate and welcome Sian's son!
We had worked hard on all the arrangements, with a total Twitter and Face Book block out to ensure that the details were kept secret and that Sian would have no inkling of what we were planning. I'm proud of us, we did such a great job that Sian seem quite stunned when she climbed out of the car and was showered by blue streamers.
We ate, we drank champagne, we cuddled and loved the new baby, we cried and shared. It was a very special, very emotional and very beautiful morning.
Below is a slide show of some of the images from the day.


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ABC and CBS will join NBC in airing Woods' statement live at 11a ET on Friday.
I got an e-mail that read "NBC won't show all Olympics events live, but will show Tiger Woods' statement live. WTF?" It then went on to rage about NBC's tape delay practice.
Though I'll admit that I'd prefer to see the events live, especially since I'm in a situation where I'd be able to watch them live, at this point I'm more annoyed by all the whining about the tape delays than the actual tape delays.
Here's one thing you can bet on: if ABC and CBS were also showing the Olympics, NBC would definitely be showing them live. But then NBC wouldn't have paid $820 million for the rights to the games it says it will lose $250 million on.
I'm not really thrilled by all the Tiger coverage and the only thing I reallywant to know is when he is coming back. But I doubt I'll be able to resist watching his statement. I might even embed the live streaming from Hulu into a blog post.


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The Brigg Umbrella
Marketed as "a gentleman's umbrella" by the British company, Swaine Adeney Brigg, their parapluie is certainly has been one of the hallmarks of an English gentleman. Ever since 1750, the luxuriously handmade canopy-device has been manufactured in London.
Functional elements like a steel frame and silver springs are mounted on exotic wood canes such as tulip, apple, bamboo, hickory, whangee and so forth. Alternatively, you may also opt for leather handles in crocodile, lizard, ostrich or you may even settle on a solid sterling silver handle, monogram included of course. Just like Francesco Maglia, Brigg also offers an umbrella which is made from a single piece of wood. Generally, you may choose between three different sizes depending on your height and taste.
Thomas Brigg and Sons received its first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, which was also the first appointment to an umbrella maker ever. Today, Brigg maintains only one store at No. 54 St. James's Street, London, but they also offer their goods online. In the following video, you will have the chance to see what the store looks like, learn a bit about the history of Brigg and understand why silk is still the number one material for canopies.


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With dentists commenting that patient expectations appear to be higher than ever before, what are the key issues to consider in record-keeping when providing orthodontic treatment?
Like many elective treatments, one of the keys to successful orthodontic treatment is ascertaining and managing the patient's expectations from the outset. Some patients aim for a simple cosmetic improvement, whereas others have specifications for key areas, which would be a 'deal breaker' if the treatment outcome does not deliver. Some advertising material may lead a patient to believe that orthodontic treatment is much more straightforward than it actually is and patients can misunderstand the significance of their own compliance in particular treatment modes.
In reality, a practitioner is only in a position to discuss orthodontic treatment once an appropriate orthodontic assessment has been carried out. Making the appropriate record of this is crucial, as a patient complaint or claim often flows from the initial diagnosis and treatment-planning phase.
Increasingly, we are seeing patients dispute the consent process. In essence, the patient says that they were not presented with all of the appropriate information as part of the consent process, and if they had been aware, they would not have chosen the treatment that was subsequently provided.
A typical example is the patient who says: "If I had known that fixed appliances would have provided a better outcome I would never have had clear aligners".
It is therefore essential that the consent process is appropriately documented in the records, with evidence of the relevant information provided to the patient, including treatment options, information regarding the risks and benefits, and any limitations associated with the treatment options. The record should also detail the discussions regarding the patient's expectations, and whether or not these are likely to be met by the agreed treatment plan, a copy of the treatment plan, and compliance advice provided to the patient, including appliance wear and attendance at appropriate appointments.
Fees and other issues
In addition to this, some disputes flow from treatment fees, and it is important to ensure that the patient is aware of both the fees and any agreed payment intervals. A recent dispute arose from a patient misunderstanding the treatment fees, which he was paying at agreed intervals. The treatment was successfully completed ahead of the predicted timescale and two further agreed payments were outstanding. The patient took the view that as the treatment had concluded, any further payments should be written off. The practitioner was able to demonstrate by way of his treatment plan letter that the fees related to the treatment itself, not the duration of the treatment. In any event, in accordance with best practice, the practitioner had estimated the treatment duration but advised the patient that this was only an estimate and that treatment durations vary.
Another issue that is becoming more common in patient complaints and claims is that of retention, with patients attempting to argue that they were either unaware of the need for retention, or unaware of the significance of retention. Issues often arise if a patient is unclear as to the cost of a retainer and whether or not it is included in the initial treatment fee.
We commonly see situations where a patient has gained the impression that the initial cost of orthodontic treatment includes a lifetime of replacement retainers, when this is often not the case. It is helpful to ensure that the patient is aware of who has responsibility for checking retention, and who will provide replacement retainers when they are required.
Good records are the best defence
Many of these elements of orthodontic care can be quite obvious to practitioners; the challenge lies in ensuring that the patient is fully informed from the outset. The overall theme, therefore, is good communication between the dentist and the patient, and evidence of this in the records, so that if the practitioner is challenged at a later date the evidence is there for all to see.
The vast majority of treatments are carried out uneventfully, with the patient being satisfied with the outcome; however ,it pays to be prepared. We encourage orthodontic practitioners to consider audits of their records to see if they would provide robust evidence to any such challenge that could be made in future.
Dr Martin Foster BDS MPH DipHSM
Martin is a Dento-legal Adviser at Dental Protection and spoke recently at the IDA Autumn Meeting staged with Identex.