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do your preschoolers colour in?
Started by tenar , Nov 09 2012 06:23 PM
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:23 PM
DD1 is 3.5. Her idea of "colour in this picture" is to cover the whole page in one colour of random scribble. I was trying to get her interested in the idea, today, of trying to colour different parts of the picture in different colours, but no real interest on her part.
Do your preschoolers colour things in, or am I expecting too much? To be honest I was mostly trying to spin out the activity she was doing, but she just wanted to scribble all over each picture and move to the next dot-to-dot.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:28 PM
My youngest DD was like that at 3.5 yrs. Now at 4.5 years she is quite good at colouring. I dont believe her to be artistically talented though. My eldest DD however was quite proficient at colouring at 2 yrs old and now at 9 yrs is excellent at drawing etc- very arty. So it depends on the child and whether they are naturally an arty person I guess.
Edited by Anivad, 09 November 2012 - 06:28 PM.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:30 PM
Give her blank paper and let her find her own way. That 'random scribble' is her stuff... let her express!
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:30 PM
My 3.5year old has moments of being able to kind of colour in, but generally it is one (or two) colours all over (except on the ipad, she is ok on the ipad for some reason).
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:30 PM
Under the new EYLF we are being encouraged to not even provide colouring in sheets as it constrains their creativity. So i wouldnt worry too much about it. Here's a link to an article to get you thinking...
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:33 PM
My 4.5 y.o has always been anal about getting the right colours. Not fabulous with staying in the lines though.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:41 PM
DD colours in from maybe 2.
What about getting her some of those paint with water books and teaching her to paint the different sections to get the color to come out. Hopefully with brush rinsing between sections/colors.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:43 PM
QUOTE (countrymel @ 09/11/2012, 07:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Give her blank paper and let her find her own way. That 'random scribble' is her stuff... let her express!
Well that's what she mostly does, of course, and she draws some great pictures, too, sometimes (well I think they are great any time I can vaguely recognize what it's supposed to be a picture of). Lots of plain old scribbling as well.
But in this case she was doing a book of dot-to-dots, which she loves, and I wanted to slow her down so as not to run through the whole book in one sitting - know what I mean?
I'm glad to know others preschoolers aren't into colouring.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:46 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. Freestyle drawing and exploring the materials is better for developing creativity and thinking skills.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:46 PM
DD is the same age and has only just started using more than one colour on any page. She shows no siign of going anywhere near the lines!
I've never worried about it for her but it kills me to look at as I can be quite anal about these things.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:55 PM
DD (just turned 3) has no interest in colouring - scribbles all in one colour and runs off. She is quite good at drawing though, so we mostly do that.
Well she does that, while I colour. I love colouring!
Posted 09 November 2012 - 06:59 PM
DS is 4 on wednesday he does not have the attention span at all to draw or colour in (but will watch adult movies like ghostbusters and not move). He will scribble in one colour and will be done.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:02 PM
Mine have all been quite different. DS1 would colour everything only 1 colour, usually black or red. Once he started school, he started using more colours.
DS2 used to be quite careful - like to colour small spots on a dog, for example, and the be perfect, but the rest of the page was uncoloured. Now he uses lots of colours, but goes as fast as he can, so it's not as tidy, but the whole page is full. (We used to spend a lot of time colouring together and he'd do the fiddly bits that he liked and I'd do the rest)
DD is 3 now and loves to colour. She uses different colours, and does like to have a picture to colour, but the colouring ranges from random scribbles to quite careful neat colouring depending on her mood.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:08 PM
QUOTE (charlottesmum04 @ 09/11/2012, 04:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Under the new EYLF we are being encouraged to not even provide colouring in sheets as it constrains their creativity. So i wouldnt worry too much about it.
In my early childhood education art class we are strongly encouraged not to introduce colour in sheets to early childhood students.
QUOTE (tenar @ 09/11/2012, 04:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well that's what she mostly does, of course, and she draws some great pictures, too, sometimes (well I think they are great any time I can vaguely recognize what it's supposed to be a picture of). Lots of plain old scribbling as well.
It's important not to make them feel self conscious about their scribbling. So if you aren't sure of what she's drawn, ask her lots of questions about it. The scribbling stage is the most important stage of art development!
It's more important that she is enjoying what she's doing rather than doing something perfect. Let her express her creativity the way she wants to and discuss it with her.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:08 PM
My 3 year old likes to obliterate any picture by scribbling over it in black crayon or texta.
My 5 year old is only just getting into colouring, she does pretty much the right colours but hasn't got much interest in staying in the lines. She prefers to draw rainbows in the background of whatever picture she's colouring.
Posted 10 November 2012 - 12:43 AM
Mine both detested colouring in which meant that I got to do it instead. Have to own up to loving it - just something about putting the right colours in the right place and not going outside the lines.......... should I be worried?
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Started by mumto3princesses , Mar 28 2009 01:41 PM
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Posted 28 March 2009 - 01:41 PM
I'm wondering and hoping....Does anyone know if it's possible the Kura bed tent might fit on other types of bunks?
Or even if they look like we might be able to make it attach some other way?
Posted 29 March 2009 - 01:43 PM
It would be difficult to attach to another setup I think. It just has three semi circle supports with custom clips on the ends of them. The clips fit perfectly onto the rails of the bed. You can't even make it stand up on the floor by itself.
DS loves his KURA bed tent!
Posted 29 March 2009 - 01:47 PM
I don't think the Kura one would, but we bought this rainbow one from Ikea that fits on our Kura bunk and also on every other bed we own - instead of the little custom clips its just has longer "legs" a bit like bendy tent poles that you velcro on as tight as you like around the legs of any single width bed bunk or otherwise) It's also higher above the child, so not as hot under there!
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 07:42 AM
Great thanks! That looks perfect. Even better because DD2 could have one on her bed too just so it's fair.
I bought bunks and DD1 (9yrs) was meant to be on top but doesn't like it. So have no choice but to put DD3 (5yrs & DD2's twin) on top.
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Additionally, Kevin Poulsen, a reformed computer hacker, will serve as the speaker for the 2013 Payments System Awards Luncheon at PAYMENTS 2013. The Payments System Awards Luncheon, sponsored by TD Bank, recognizes outstanding achievement in the payments industry and annually features an engaging speaker to accompany the award presentations.
"NACHA is thrilled to have such pioneering individuals serve as our keynote and luncheon speakers," said Janet O. Estep, NACHA president and CEO. "As consumer demand, technological advancements, and innovative financial products and services revolutionize the payments industry, it is more important than ever to hear from those 'challenging the status quo.' Through speakers, like King and Poulsen, and its numerous educational sessions, PAYMENTS 2013 will help payments professionals discover how to remain competitive and relevant in the changing marketplace." In addition to serving as founder and CEO of Movenbank, King is the author of the bestselling books Bank 3.0 and Bank 2.0, and strategic advisor to the global financial services and banking sector. King has spoken at events for some of the world's best known brands and at some of the biggest global events. He has also been featured on Bloomberg TV, BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Banker, The Economist, The Asian Banker Journal, SBC (Greece), and others.
Poulsen is a former computer hacker whose best known hack involved penetrating telephone company computers in the early 1990s to win radio station phone-in contests. Poulsen now serves as the founding editor of Wired's Threat Level blog, which won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism, and the 2010 MIN award for best blog. In 2009, Poulsen was inducted into Mind's Digital Hall of Fame for online journalism, and in 2010 he was among those honored as a "Top Cyber Security Journalist" in a peer-voted award by the SANS Institute.
About PAYMENTS 2013 PAYMENTS 2013, taking place April 21 - 24 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif., features more than 130 educational sessions and workshops with renowned speakers from financial institutions, companies, government agencies, legal and regulatory bodies, consulting and research firms, service providers, and more. Sessions are organized along eight tracks -- Automated Clearing House (ACH), card solutions, corporate payment solutions, global focus, healthcare opportunities, mobile banking and payments, risk & compliance, and payments biz - to address the topics of pivotal importance to payments professionals. Conference threads weave hot topics across tracks and emphasize the most significant developments in legal/regulatory, corporate account takeover, remote deposit capture/remotely created checks, community banks/small business/local government opportunities, and NACHA Operating Rules and initiatives. In addition, a dynamic exhibit of nearly 100 industry leaders features today's top products and services.
To learn more about PAYMENTS 2013 sessions, workshops, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors, or to register, visit
NACHA -- The Electronic Payments Association NACHA manages the development, administration, and governance of the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data. The ACH Network provides a safe, secure, and reliable network for direct account-to-account consumer, business, and government payments. Annually, it facilitates billions of Direct Deposit via ACH and Direct Payment via ACH transactions. Used by all types of financial institutions, the ACH Network is governed by the fair and equitable NACHA Operating Rules, which guide risk management and create payment certainty for all participants. As a not-for-profit association, NACHA represents more than 10,000 financial institutions via 17 regional payments associations and direct membership. Through its industry councils and forums, NACHA brings together payments system stakeholders to foster dialogue and innovation to strengthen the ACH Network. To learn more, please visit
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Who do you support for Lieutenant Governor in Louisiana in 2010?
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#205 Mar 2, 2011
Who do I support for Lt. Gov? Girl I'm lucky if I can find a support bra!
#206 Mar 7, 2011
Nice. Lol.
#207 Mar 7, 2011
So do alot of women in Baton Rouge! Too bad, north LA didn't know his appetite for women before voting for him! He makes David Vitter look like a saint!
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#208 Mar 7, 2011
Why would you make something like that up? Jay Dardenne is known to be among the, if not the most honest among our public servants. Further, there has never been such a rumor about his personal life. We would be lucky to have him as Governor.
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how early do i have to get up to vote for such an honest man? governor, lets go all the way. i am sure he would be in a class all by himself, especially here in la. if he can string three sentences together he has my vote. so is the election today or tomorrow, next week, 2 years from now.... 3 years from now....... is it over?
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#210 Mar 7, 2011
all the more reason to vote for him
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#211 Mar 8, 2011
Did not make it up. Worked at capitol for 35 years. My wife too. As I said, it is not something North LA would be aware of. I know two of the women...one is Mary, the other is Pamela!
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#212 Mar 8, 2011
I have known Jay Dardenne since he was elected to the state senate in 1987, but I never heard of him being a ladies man. You have the creds, so I'll take your word for it. Bill Clinton was the best U. S. President in my lifetime (in my humble opinion) so I still maintain Jay has been among the cream of the crop in his public service career. The Bible thumpers in North Louisiana might be hypocrites, but I don't think allegations of his philandering would have necessarily steered their votes away from Dardenne. Look at how they voted last time Edwin Edwards ran for governor.
#213 Mar 8, 2011
I appreciate and respect your opinion. Nothing I have said, was made up. It is indeed fact. Sure it didn't seem to make it to the press prior to his last election, but if the time comes when he wants to run for governor....the powers that be at the Washington Post will be all over him. Being from LA, I understand that Edwin, Dardenne, Vitter, etc., seem to not be held to the same scrunity as other politicians, in other states. It just irks me that Dardenne tries to portray himself as a family man while his poor wife lives with this pain.
#214 Mar 8, 2011
At least Edwin Edwards had the balls to admit he was a CROOK and a CHEAT.
Honesty.....Baton Rouge style.
#215 Mar 9, 2011
True words have never been spoken.
A couple of days before the Dardenne election was to be over, one woman was called....and, told if she spoke ...that everything would go public...now, if that isn't harrassment, I don't know what is......let him run for governor....all of it will come out!
#216 Mar 9, 2011
Go vote
#217 Mar 10, 2011
You positively have that right! Often wondered why people kept voting for EE after he continued to opening admit when he was asked if he had done something illegal. I guess most appreciated his "honest" responses. His style was very unique.
#218 Mar 15, 2011
When Billy Nungesser runs against him, I am sure Billy will beat him. Billy has done a wonderful job for Plaquemine Parish, and he will have the good down to earth personality that suits both the north and south Louisianians.
#219 Mar 15, 2011
Scott Angelle all the way
#220 Mar 15, 2011
Sorry Sarah, it ain't gonna happen. Scott Angelle is Mr.OCTOBER 2011
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#221 Mar 17, 2011
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common.
They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
#222 Mar 17, 2011
Edwin Edwards did not have any Balls. What he had was ignorance and an inflated false sense of being untouchable. Does anyone think he even had the slightest clue that he could possibly go to prison?
It's kinda like touching a hot pot three more times after you have gotten burnt. It's just plain dumb.
As the late Vic Elias from New iberia said,
"sending some people to Baton Rouge is like sending a squirrel up a tree on a cold day with no nuts"
#223 Mar 18, 2011
Now Buddy wants to run for President. I can hardly remember what he did for Louisiana. He is and always was a JOKE!
#224 Mar 18, 2011
I can go along with that. As long as it is not Dardenne.
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Dallas Keuchel took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, and the Houston Astros ended the Los Angeles Angels' 10-game winning streak with a 6-1 victory Sunday. Keuchel (11-9) faced the minimum 21 batters from the major league-leading Angels through seven innings on a scorching day at the Big A, overpowering a lineup that has scored a big league-best 728 runs. The left-hander...
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Houston Astros Local Mall Commercial Spoof Is Perfect
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Yesterday Brandon McCarthy continued the renaissance he began after being traded to the Yankees earlier this season, throwing a complete game, four-hit shut-out. He and Astros starter Dallas Keuchel combined to pitch the shortest game in the history of the new Yankee Stadium: two hours and seven minutes.Are you kicking yourselves, Arizona Diamondbacks? If not, you should be.We all...
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Xander Bogaerts Returns To Red Sox Lineup Against Dallas Keuchel, Astros
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Tuesday Night Snoozer: Five Hours, 15 Innings Later: Phillies Win 2-1
The Phillies met up with the rebuilding Houston Astros in South Philly. Once a regular foe, the Astros' move to the American League meant that this was a rare matchup between the two clubs. The Astros sent Dallas Keuchel to the mound and the Phillies sent Kyle Kendrick to battle....
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Gameday 113: Astros at Phillies
Arizona Diamondbacks (47-65) at Philadelphia Phillies (49-63) Starting Pitchers: ARI: Dallas Keuchel (10-7, 2.97) vs. PHI: Kyle Kendrick (5-11, 4.92) Time: 7:05, Citizens Bank Park TV: CSN Weather: Sunny, 82 Media: Twitter and Facebook A Note for Tonight: The three game series between the Phillies and the Astros could easily be the battle of the awfully bad teams. Both teams have...
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Daily Fantasy Picks: 8/5/2014
Starting a new series for daily fantasy picks to show favorable matchups and value in players. I will NOT be using previous matchup data. Most Player A vs. Pitcher B is over a very small sample and is not predictive whatsoever. Here are my picks for August 5th. Pitchers: Josh Tomlin, Dallas Keuchel Josh Tomlin has actually become one of the better pitchers over his last few...
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T.J. House as Dallas Keuchel Before the 2014 season, every comparison to Houston Astros players – without exception – was either in positive reference to former players like Roger Clemens or was a pejorative. In 2014, Houston still has the third-worst record in the league, but at the same time, the Astros team has surprising bright spots – foremost among them the sinister...
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FG on Fox: Dallas Keuchel's Changing Repertoire
At different points in his career, Dallas Keuchel has thrown a slurve and a spike curve. Due to ineffectiveness and injury, he's had to step down his usage of either breaking ball over his short career. But they'll be back. The first breaking ball Keuchel ever threw was a slurve back in high school. But […]
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The Yoshihiko Noda administration is not seeing the wood for the trees devoting all its energy to the Diaoyu Islands. It is letting its country's diplomatic relations with China stagnate.
By putting these islands under Japanese government control, the Noda administration is trying to fool people into thinking that Japan has a legal right to them.
However, its claim of sovereignty over these islands, also known as Diaoyutai in the Taiwan region of China and as the Senkakus in Japan, is untenable on two historical fronts.
China discovered and controlled the islands from the 14th century. For several centuries the Diaoyu Islands have been administered as part of Taiwan and have always been used exclusively by Chinese fishermen as a base for fishing, both before and after World War II.
In 1874 Japan took the Liu Chiu Islands, known as the Ryukyu Islands or as represented by its biggest island Okinawa in Japan, by force when the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was at war with several countries. The Diaoyu Islands, however, remained under the administration of Taiwan, an inalienable part of China. Following its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Qing government was forced to cede Taiwan including the affiliated islands of Diaoyu to Japan under the Shimonoseki Treaty.
After WWII the Japanese government accepted the terms in the 1943 Cairo Declaration and 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, including the one "that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa (as Taiwan was referred to prior to 1945), the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China".
On Sept 2, 1945, the Japanese government accepted the Potsdam Proclamation in explicit terms with the Japanese Instrument of Surrender and pledged to faithfully fulfill the obligations enshrined in the provisions of the Potsdam Proclamation.
All the documents shatter Japan's justification for its claim of sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. The Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation enabled the victorious nations including China to create a post-war international order.
The San Francisco Peace Treaty, which was signed between Japan, the United States and some other countries in 1951 without China being present, placed the Nansei Islands south of the 29th parallel of North Latitude under United Nations' trusteeship, with the United States as the sole administering authority. This arrangement was protested by the Chinese government.
The Nansei Islands placed under the administration of the US did not include Diaoyu Islands. The United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR) issued Provisions of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands on Feb 29, 1952 and Civil Administration Proclamation No 27 (defining the "geographical boundary lines of the Ryukyu Islands") on Dec 25, 1953, arbitrarily expanding its jurisdiction to include China's Diaoyu Islands.
In 1972 the administration of the islands were reverted illegally to Japanese control under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty between the US and Japan.
This control does not necessarily entitle Japan to sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.
China decided that its contemporary relations with Japan should not be held hostage to history. So in 1972 - 27 years after Japan's surrender, which marked the end of Japanese aggression - China established diplomatic relations with Japan.
To make this happen, the leaders of the two countries were forward-looking and wise. They agreed to put aside the territorial dispute of the Diaoyu Islands.
The minutes kept by the Committee on the International Relations of Japan's House of Representatives on Aug 18, 1978 reveal Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda's proposal on joint development of the Diaoyu Islands.
Today's Japanese leaders have the nerve to say there is no dispute on the islands.
Burden of history
Japan has been confused about its place in the world since the late 19th century. In an editorial in 1885, Fukuzawa Yukichi urged his nation to "escape from Asia", where he found bad friends. In his hopes for a strong Japan, Fukuzawa promoted the development of Japan's imperialism through military buildup.
Japan began its expansion in East Asia in 1931 with the invasion of Northeast China and continued in 1937 with a brutal attack on other parts of the Chinese mainland. It made a long series of aggressions into Southeast Asia.
Japan was defeated and surrendered in 1945. The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal prosecuted 28 Class A war criminals, including Toujou Hideki, the former Japanese prime minister and the prime war criminal of Japan, for crimes against peace, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Out of the 28 Class A war criminals, seven were finally sentenced to death by hanging, including Toujou Hideki; 16 to life in prison; two to imprisonment of 20 and seven years respectively.
In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed.
The trials and executions spoke volumes about the brutality Japan inflicted on Asian countries.
Japan has been trying hard to be a normal country since WWII.
After one and a half centuries of efforts to "escape from Asia", former prime minister Hatoyama Yukio wanted to shift Japan's focus from a more America-centric foreign policy to a more Asia-focused policy.
Japan, however, fails to lead Asia as it aspires to. It can't win trust from its neighbours because it is unwilling to do any soul-searching about its past.
Compared with Germany, Japan has allowed a lot of ambiguity to creep into its attitude toward its aggression in WWII.
Take the Yasukuni Shrine, for example, which is dedicated to the soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan, war criminals are also enshrined there.
This is perceived by East Asian countries as a failure of integrity in Japan - a failure to observe the universal standards of right and wrong.
These countries protest when Japanese officials pay homage to the shrine. But the controversy doesn't bother Japan. More than that, some politicians demonstrate a political attitude by visiting the Yasukuni deliberately.
Without a clearly radical departure from its military past and sincere apology for the aggression, Japan can't find a place in Asia in the way Germany has in Europe.
As its moral ground is shaky, Japan is not likely to play a leading role in the region politically.
Up until now Japan has leeched on to its former enemy, the United States, closely. This is a price Japan has to pay.
Japan has made the Diaoyu Islands issue a mine in the bilateral relations step by step in the past six months. The role the uninhabited islands and islets are playing in China-Japan relations and, more broadly, in East Asia is more than people in the West can imagine.
The Japanese government needs to know that its "nationalisation" of the Diaoyu Islands does not have the legal validity in terms of international law.
Its "nationalisation" plan can't bury the dispute.
For Japan and China, these islands and islets are no longer the issue that they can afford to leave for future generations. Now leaders have to set their wits to the dispute with cool-headedness and reason.
The author is the Tokyo bureau chief of China Daily.
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Now that the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer have ended and business travelers have survived the hurricanes, earthquakes, and security scares, it might be wise to take a few moments to rethink, reload, and revamp for the fall travel season.
We're facing an airline system this autumn that will offer a sharply reduced number of routes and seats as the major carriers struggle with high jet-fuel prices and their own financial weakness. Hotel chains are desperate to try and raise our prices too. But to mangle Shakespeare, the challenges this fall will not be from airlines or lodging providers, but from our own established patterns.
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AN HISTORIC Droitwich town centre building which dates back to the 1600s is set to be transformed after being bought for £150,000 at auction.
The Grade II listed building on the corner of the High Street and Worcester Road was Wychavon District Council's Community Contact Centre.
It has been empty since August 2011 when the Contact Centre was relocated to the town's library in Victoria Square.
But new owners Jacqui Dowdeswell and Andrew Probyn want to give the venue a new lease of life and provide vital shot in the arm for the town's High Street.
The pair are planning to transform the premises into a vintage tea room with bistro and a shop selling vintage clothes.
Jacqui and Andrew both live locally and also hope to provide a gallery and exhibition space for the crafts and artwork of local artists, subject to the necessary planning consents.
"We're really excited about our beautiful building and its origins, as Bullocks old Tea Room and Cake Shop. It is an amazing opportunity to sympathetically rejuvenate the building as well as bring people in to the High Street," Jacqui said.
Vic Allison, Wychavon District Council's deputy managing director, said: "We're very pleased that building has sold and we're happy with the price it achieved.
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Boeing should have used more rigorous testing for the 787 Dreamliner's original failed lithium-ion batteries, suggested National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hershman on Tuesday.
"Actual in-flight experience in revenue service was an outcome that was more severe that they had seen in test conditions." Hershman said. "We also heard today that their assumptions, and the testing that they did, were not as conservative as they could have been."
Hershman spoke during a conference call with press at the end of the first of two days of hearings before the NTSB board in Washington, D.C. During Tuesday's hearings, the board heard testimony from Boeing 787 Chief Project Engineer Mike Sinnett and others representing Boeing, suppliers of the 787's battery systems and the FAA.
The hearings are part of the NTSB's ongoing investigation of two battery failures aboard two separate 787s in January, which led the Federal Aviation Administration to ground the entire fleet. In a separate action, the FAA on Friday approved Boeing's proposed fix of the 787's battery system. The grounded aircrafts' batteries are now being updated, or will be, to return to flight.
During the Tuesday press conference, Hershman said Boeing's attempt to produce an internal short circuit in a test battery, driving a nail through a cell, did not produce a short circuit with enough energy to overheat and damage the batteries like those aboard the 787s operated by Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.
"What we heard today was the testing they had done prior to certification to identify internal short circuits did not produce the results that we saw in service, on two different aircraft in two weeks, operated by two operators," she said.
Steve Wilhelm covers manufacturing, aerospace and trade for the Puget Sound Business Journal.
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