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Need Drivers for 10/100Mbps integrated Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 port)
\015 I try to google looking for this driver to download to my flash drive to put on a computer that was wiped clean that now cannot get on the internet and am having problems. Every time I locate something that says it is the driver, it tries to download a Driver Detective Tool. That isn't going to help me since I am searching with a computer that is not the one that needs the driver. (I have an Emachine T6420)\015\012\015\012Thanks for your help.\015
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Here is the download page for the motherboard that is in your computer.The ethernet driver for this mobo is contained within the System nForce4 430/410 System Drivers at this link:
\015\012The link below contains all the downloads for the motherboard that is in your computer.
\015\012Click on this link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
\015\012If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
\015\012Thanks, Joe
\015\012The link below contains all the downloads for the motherboard that is in your computer.
\015\012Click on this link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
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� Happy Mother's Day to the great mother I married, the great mother I lost far too early, and the great mother-in-law who brightens my days.
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course prerequisites: 1301, 1302, and six hours of 2000-level English
required textbooks: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty; Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden; J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit; Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn; Bruce Brooks, What Hearts; Lois Lowry, The Giver. These texts are widely available at any bookstore, and especially in public libraries; there's no need to buy them. You will also be required to write on the 1960 TV production of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin, which is widely available at video stores and libraries for rental or borrowing. In addition, you will be responsible for three papers on books of your own choice: a picture book, a Newbery Medal winner, and a series novel. (By "series novel" I mean one of a deliberately packaged mass-market series. So, Harry Potter or The Chronicles of Narnia are not "series novels" in this sense; Animorphs and American Girls are.) Again, you will be able to find books for these assignments at a public library.
syllabus: This syllabus may be updated as the semester goes on. I will hand out updated versions that indicate readings and discussion plans. However, every writing assignment and every component of your grade is here at the beginning. Please refer to the date and time of printing (at the bottom of each page) to see when the version you are holding was printed. For continuous updates look on line at http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4365s00/
course description: This course offers a cultural-critical approach to children's literature.
course objectives: Students who successfully complete this course will have read some classics of children's literature, will have a basic understanding of the canon of 20th-century American children's literature, and will have some introductory understanding of the theoretical problems of studying children's literature and culture.
attendance is mandatory. You may miss three (3) classes for "free," each missed class over the limit costs you one grade point (see below).
drop policy: UTA instructors may not drop students for any reason. You may drop with a W until the first drop deadline (Friday 25 February). After that date, you may drop with a W only if you have a passing average on all assignments due on or before your drop date; otherwise, you will have to drop with an F. You may not drop at all after Friday 14 April.
assignments: Ten three-page papers. Papers must be typed, must use MLA style, and must cite all sources used in their preparation. Late papers will not be accepted. They will earn zero points.
grading: Grading is on a point system. Each paper may earn 0, 1, or 2 possible points. (Each missed class over the limit of 3 costs you a point.)
That makes a total of 20 possible points for the semester. Your final grade is determined on the following scale:
Most papers will earn 1 point. Papers that are handwritten, late, irrelevant to the topic, fail to cite sources, fail to use MLA style, or are written in prose that falls below an acceptable college English standard will earn no points. Two points will be given for excellent papers. If you earn one point on each paper and have no excessive absences, you will make a B for the semester. I think that a B is a good grade for an undergraduate course, and that a C grade is quite acceptable. The grade of A should indicate excellence rather than mere completion of the course.
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schedule of assignments and readings
Tues 18 Jan: Syllabus and procedures
Thurs 20 Jan: Introductions
Tues 25 Jan: lecture: Beauties
Thurs 27 Jan: Paper One (Black Beauty) due; lecture: Burnett
Tues 1 Feb: discuss Paper One
Thurs 3 Feb: Paper Two (The Secret Garden) due; lecture: Barrie
Tues 8 Feb: discuss Paper Two
Thurs 10 Feb: screening, Peter Pan
Tues 15 Feb: field trip: to the library of Duff Elementary school, Lynnwood / Duff/ Park Row in west Arlington. Details TBA.
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Tues 22 Feb: discuss Paper Three
Thurs 24 Feb: Paper Four (The Hobbit) due; lecture: poetry (see Mother Goose)
Tues 29 Feb: discuss Paper Four
Thurs 2 March: Paper Five (A Visit to William Blake's Inn) due; lecture: picture books
Tues 7 March: discuss Paper Five
Thurs 9 March: Paper Six (picture books) due; lecture: baseball books
Tues 14 March: picture-book seminar
Thurs 16 March: Paper Seven (What Hearts) due; picture-book seminar continues
Tues 21 & Thurs 23 March: Spring Break
Tues 28 March: discuss Paper Seven
Thurs 30 March: Paper Eight (The Giver) due; guest speaker: Peggy Kulesz
Tues 4 April: discuss paper Eight
Thurs 6 April: Paper Nine (Newbery medalists) due; lecture: Goosebumps
Tues 11 April: Newbery seminar
Thurs 13 April: Newbery seminar
Tues 18 April: Newbery seminar
Thurs 20 April: Paper Ten (series fiction) due; lecture: Winnie McConnell
Tues 25 April: series seminar plus evaluations
Thurs 27 April: series seminar plus evaluations; last class day
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- Their age: 30-50
- Where they shop online: John Lewis, Next, M&S, Ikea, Debenhams, ASOS, Argos.
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An additional insight regarding delivery is the value in retailers providing free delivery when a customer spends over a certain amount. All women remarked that providing the threshold wasn't unrealistic this would certainly encourage them to spend a bit more just to get free delivery.
2. Online shoppers love big flyout navigation menus
When they first started being used by retailers, I recall some industry commentators remarked that the big flyout navigation menus were distracting, overwhelming and counter-intuitive to the browsing experience.
Personally I have seen occasions where the visual design of large flyout navigations menus can look too much. On saying this, when designed well, with good use of white space, clearly labeling category and sub-category headings, and not using underlines for all the links, big flyout menus are loved by shoppers.
During the test sessions our clients flyout navigation menus were an integral part of the browsing experience and all women talked very positively about how useful they were, and I'm sure this will be the case with many of the other retailers who provide them.
3. A clear link back to the homepage is required
Although on almost all websites you can click the logo on any internal page to go back to the homepage, only two of the nine women who took part were actually aware of this (and one of these women works for one of the UK's biggest home shopping businesses so she had experience of this on the e-commerce sites she is involved in).
This means that all retailers should provide a clear link to go back to their homepage. I usually recommend retailers use both a home symbol and the words 'Home' at the start of their site wide breadcrumb (providing the retailer provides this of course!).
A key factor in the importance of this is that for retailers who are personalising their homepages based on behavioral targeting from visitor's past activity, they will increase the chances that visitors arriving on the homepage may well see many products that they are interested in.
As soon as they move away from the homepage to explore some of the products, without a clear way back to the homepage the much loved back button will see plenty of action during a browsing session!
4. Online shoppers love breadcrumb trails
Although breadcrumbs weren't used as part of every browsing and shopping journey, especially on sites that have a large number of products with more than three levels of categorisation, a clearly defined breadcrumb trail is very well liked by shoppers.
Our client's breadcrumb trail served two clear purposes:
- making it clear which area of the site the user was in.
- providing a simple way to revisit a set of related products after determining that the product they are looking at isn't suitable.
5. The ability to filter product ranges is expected
Only a few years ago attribute filtering (or multi-faceted navigation) wasn't available on many of the big retail websites.
Fast forward to 2011 and shoppers simply expect filters which allow them to find products that match their requirements.
Whether this be by price range, product type or product feature, retailers who have extensive product ranges that don't provide product filtering are most certainly missing a trick in providing their visitors with an intuitive and user-friendly browsing experience.
6. Big photos and clean page designs are well loved
Personally I have always been a fan of clean page designs where visual clutter and distractions are removed, and in all nine test sessions the women absolutely loved both the large images (while browsing and on the product page) as well as page designs that were clean, simple and well structured.
As I mentioned at the start of this post, some of these insights aren't exactly groundbreaking, but as with all these nine insights there are still quite a few retailers who could provide their visitors with an improved customer experience by considering some of these.
7. Short video demonstrations for certain products are very valuable
As a generalisation, fashion retailers such as Topshop and ASOS were some of the first big retailers to introduce product videos on to their product pages, as a way of providing visitors with both greater levels of engagement as well as helping to sell products more affectively.
Of course video demonstrations aren't suitable for all retailers, but in the case of one high street retailer, providing short videos of certain types of product was a key factor in helping users decide whether to make a purchase.
From personal experience, product videos have been instrumental in helping my wife and I decide which washing machine and which pram to purchase over the last few months. A quick mention to retailers Kiddicare and Appliances Online on this, who both provide excellent product demonstrations through the use of video.
8. Postcode look-up in checkout is now expected
As with filtered navigation, only a few years ago hardly any e-commerce sites I visited or was involved in provided a postcode look-up facility within the checkout process.
More and more retailers are now providing this facility for visitors, and the women taking part were each asked their opinions on this type of facility. Not only did they all feel it was a great time saver, all women now expected to see a postcode look-up facility.
A couple of quick points on this. If retailers don't provide this facility this won't mean visitors won't complete your checkout, although in comparison to other e-commerce sites that the visitor may shop at your checkout may feel slightly more time consuming.
Finally retailers shouldn't overlook the fact that many visitors may need to manually enter their address for a number of reasons, so this facility should be easy to locate and not require the visitor to first try entering a postcode.
9. First time shoppers are happy to create an account, but…
One key aspect of the customer experience that was covered during the test sessions was making a purchase as a first time customer. This included one of the crucial areas of new customer checkout – registration/account creation.
As with the likes of Speedo (read details of how Speedo handle new customer checkout), at the start of the checkout process this retailer doesn't force new customers to register in order to make their purchase. Instead they simply ask visitors whether they would like to choose a password at the end (or on the order summary page) in order to create their account.
Below is a quick summary of insights gained from the women regarding registration/account creation during checkout:
- The word registration conjures up expectations that they need to fill in lots of additional information.
- Some shoppers like to know that they can create an account as part of their checkout (especially for retailers which have a wide range of products available).
- Shoppers don't like to be forced to register in order to checkout.
- Simply asking shoppers to choose a password to set-up their account towards the end of checkout is a simple and well liked feature.
- Wording such as 'create an account to checkout faster next time' isn't enough to encourage shoppers to do this. Being able to track your order is another key benefit that is well liked.
- Don't place too many rules on the format of password that is required.
So these are nine of the general online shopping insights that I gained whilst facilitating the test sessions.
Going forward I will be interested to observe new browsing behaviour patterns and consumer insights, but this list certainly provides pretty band up-to-date insights which I hope have been of use to you.
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A really interesting post. As you mentioned a lot of it is well known but this test just backs up those ideas. It was interesting to hear that only 2 out of the 9 women knew the logo was the home button.
Thanks for your comment Paul. Like you I'm surprised about how many general consumers don't use the logo to go back to the homepage, but I suppose at the same time it's a good example of the saying 'you are not your user' which I use in usability & user experience training courses!
I published a short piece on this today, and you put this up about a minute later! Marketing and internet people find it really hard to believe that many people don't know about the logo-doubling-as-homepage rule - every time I do testing, I find exactly what you do.
Can you expand on point #8? For one thing, I've no idea what a "postcode look-up" is or why a user would need one.
And your comment that "many visitors may need to manually enter their address" -- *may* need to? How else is the user going to get something delivered, if not by providing their address? (Assuming a physical object is being purchased, of course.)
Other than that, a very interesting read that I'll be sharing with my clients!
Hassan, postcode lookup is where you can enter your postcode in a field and the site will complete most of your address details automatically without you needing to type it all in. You just have to select the correct house number.
Not all addresses will be found this way and the article is basically suggesting that best practice is to provide automatic lookup as an option. Some sites make you go through 'failure' before they let you input your address, which is pretty annoying.
Alison, thanks for your comments. Perception of what general web users do and don't do on websites is a really fascinating area, and its why we always encourage our clients to observe test sessions live, or if this isn't feasible then certainly make time to watch the video recordings of them.
We also recommend the recordings are made available to employees throughout the business, not just those involved in online marketing. Enlightenment is the name of the game with this!
Oh and thanks for your feedback to Hassan, you beat me to it :-)
Hassan, thanks for your comments and questions. On reflection I could easily have provided a screenshot for all 9 of the insights which would have certainly made point 8 a bit clearer!
Following on from Alison providing a very conscise summary of the postcode look-up feature, let us know if you have any further questions or comments.
This is a useful overview of research findings in to online shopping behaviour and it's great that you've included the womens profiles at the start of the article to show the scope of the research.
Based on the shops mentioned in the womens profiles, I'm assuming that the research was carried out in the UK which may help to clarify the question around point 8's postcode look-up insight. In the UK, postcodes are structured to contain a lot of information - often indicating a geographical location, district and street. Postcode look-ups can therefore pre-fill the city and street and give options for the house numbers that are within that postcode.
A postcode look-up in other countries may not be as helpful. For example in Australia a postcode look-up may only be able to provide a matching state and options for the suburb (town) because the 4-digit postcodes can be shared between multiple suburbs in a state.
Using a phrase like "clean page designs are well loved" or "visual clutter and distractions are removed" isn't particularly helpful to anyone I don't think. I know exactly what you mean and I agree with what you're saying but this is the sort of vocabulary non-designers use to describe visual design and its meaningless. 99 out of 100 people will choose "clean" over "dirty", "uncluttered" over "cluttered" but unless you're discussing extreme cases, no two will agree on whether a particular design fits their idea of "clean".
As a designer, I see this everyday. Those unfamiliar with design principles describing a design in terms of its "cleaness".
If you intend to critique design, how about some new words? Words like order, clarity, or uniformity, might help describe more specifically the aspects I think you're talking about.
Niina, yes you're right to presume this was UK based user testing. Thanks for your additional insights which are extremely valid!
David, thanks for your comments. I'll deal with you once I've managed to get back from you putting me firmly in my place.. :-)
Wow - loved this. Great insights - thanks so much! Nothing better than a practical user case study...
Thanks to all for the postcode-lookup clarification.
Here in the US everyone knows their 5-digit ZIP code -- which provides nothing like that level of granularity. There's a 9-digit version which does, but I doubt 1 in 100 people know what theirs is.
Maybe time for an education campaign! :-)
Great insights Paul. Interestingly I was talking to (well, interviewing...) a 21yr old girl just recently and the *only reason* she used, and was loyal to, ASOS, was nothing to do with all the funky stuff we hear about them (social media, community, magazines, video etc...), but simply because she found their filtering options the best/easiest.
For example, look at http://www.asos.com/Women/Dresses/Cat/pgecategory.aspx?cid=8799 - not only can you filter by the usual stuff (size, brand, price, colour) but there is a celebrity search filter and, just above the dresses themselves, a browse option to view by "occasion / scenario / type" (evening, party, work, petite). It was this filter in particular that my sample of one singled out as the reason she was loyal to ASOS.
Hi Ashley, thanks for your comments. Yep ASOS are sure doing plenty right when it comes to customer experience! In case you missed it my last article was Shopping Basket best practice from ASOS (http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/7106-asos-shopping-basket-best-practice) and last night I presented at the 1st Conversion Thursday Manchester with a presentation titled 'Increasing basket to checkout conversions: the ASOS way' (http://bit.ly/ASOSbsb).
And to think they've not even started their user-centred redesign on their actual checkout process yet! 2011 looks like they'll be going from strength to strength across the board..
Good article for all; as a male web user I agree with most of these comments too.
The sample size of 9 is a bit small but good for us to get remined or what real people think & feel as I would have guessed that 7 out of 9 would know to click the logo to go home, not the opther way around.
Great insights. Thanks for sharing. I agree about asos's great filter options - of course they have so many thousands of products that they really need this - so much better than sub, sub categories.
I also like the way they have a second set of breadcrumbs underneath the photos.
Interesting about the delivery costs / transparency. Would like to know if returns / returns policy came up in the discussion?
Hi Neale, thanks for your comments. As you have highlighted user testing can certainly help to dispel myths and mis-conceptions when it comes to understanding the behaviour of your average online browser/shopper.
Scott, thanks too for your comments. With regards returns, the importance of this and whether this was brought up by the users as part of their decision making process, on the site they were using returns information wasn't given much prominence at all on either the product page or basket.
This isn't to say that this is the right approach, and I would recommend retailers observe how ASOS make their returns policy (and the fact that returns are free which in itself is a strong part of their proposition) very much apart of both their product page and shopping basket design.
To summarise the more transparent retailers are when it comes to providing information on delivery options/costs, returns, security, stock availability and payment options, the greater chance they will have of encouraging a larger number of visitors to move through their product pages and basket and in to the checkout process.
Has this been of any use for you?
Hi Paul,
Thanks for coming back and replying. This was all very interesting. More and more I learn about fashion e-commerce it all seems to come back to "do what asos / amazon are doing"
Hi Paul,
Great article, I really enjoyed it.
I've been doing lots of usability testing with mums recently and the issue of reviews came up a lot. Mums wanted reviews from other mums and didn't pay much attention to the reviews provided by 'the website'.
This may not be gender specific but did you find anything interesting around reviews and use of social commerce in your research that was specific to women?
Hi James, thanks for your comments and question.
From our experience during user testing, whether it be males or females, when it comes to on-site reviews the expectation is very much that when rating and reviews are provided for products (be that physical or hotels/holidays etc) the users expect that these are from other customers rather than the actual retailer.
Interestingly there is still some sceptism that we see from a small % of users who don't tend to trust reviews, as they expect that the retailer will only choose to show the best ones, or even worse write them themselves!
As I say this is very much a small minority, with the majority of users finding reviews extremely useful and insightful in helping to inform their purchase decision.
Where retailers look to take rating and reviews further and allow the visitor to only show reviews from customers in a certain age range, gender or other relevant characteristic, this type of filtering can prove to be even more beneficial too.
On a final note, where retailers provide both customer reviews and faceted navigation, providing the ability for customers to filter products by star rating and other characterstics of the reviewer adds an even greater amount of relevancy to shoppers too.
Finally (!) retailers who also provide video demonstrations of some but not all of their products are encouraged by us to allow visitors to also filter out products which don't have product videos, particularly where videos prove to be a key feature which helps to sell the product.
Hopefully that has been of some use?


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As the largest toy production country in the world, there are total 1304 large-scale toy enterprises in China, which have produced almost 75% toys of the whole world, moreover, Sino-foreign joint ventures, enterprises with Sino-foreign cooperation, and wholly foreign-owned enterprises have taken up the leading position of China's toy industry
In 2013, the output value of China Toy Industry was about CNY 130.764 billion, up 15.72% over last year, and the main business revenue was CNY 166.44 billion, with accumulative year-on-year rises of 14.3%.
Key companies involved in toy market :
- Lego Group
- Mattel Inc.
- Hasbro Inc.
- Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture Co., Ltd
- GOLDLOK Toys Holdings (Guangdong) Co., Ltd
- Guangdong Qunxing Toys Joint-Stock Co., Ltd
- Xinghui Auto Model Co., Ltd
- Huawei Technology Co., Ltd
Though China is a major toy manufacturing and export country, the domestic market almost has been taken up by foreign brands. Among the top ten toy brands in Chinese market, the top two are foreign ones, they are Lego and Mattel, and six out of those ten enterprises are foreign-owned subsidies in China.
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There are about 30,000 plus kinds of toys in China's toy market. And they can be classified into electronic toys, machine model toys, plastic toys, wooden toys, etc. As people's living standard and the awareness of the importance of early education improve day by day, according to relevant statistics, now the consumption groups of traditional toys, educational toys, and DIY toys each accounts for 55%, 25% and 20% respectively, besides, the market share of educational toys has increased from 10% of four years ago to 25% by far.
The most important production and export bases of toys in China are concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shandong, Zhejiang and Fujian, etc, in which, Guangdong and Fujian bases are specialized in electronic and plastic toys, Jiangsu and Shanghai are stuffed toys, and Zhejiang is wooden toys.
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Development Trend and Investment Prospect of China Toy Market, 2014-2018 mainly analyzes toy industry in the aspects of market status, supply & demand, competition landscape, and business performance of major enterprises both home and abroad, more specifically, offers suggestions for toy industry, so as to make entrepreneurs get a better understanding of this industry and make a wiser decision with the help of the investment references.
In recent years, China's toy industry has gradually entered into integration period, and slowly recovered from the impact of financial crises, and constantly marched forward the branding of Chinese toys. As the market continuously perfects and keeps in order and together with the nation's preferential policy and great support of cultural industries such as toy, animation and game, the domestic toy industry is expected to develop at a higher speed than ever and step into an unprecedented golden period.
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What Are You Reading? with Von Allan
Hello and welcome once again to What Are You Reading? This week our special guest is Von Allan, creator of the self-published graphic novel series Stargazer. The first volume is still available, while the second one is due in shops in October.
To see what Von and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below.
Michael May
I finished The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde. After the thrilling first issue, I got bogged down in the middle two issues wondering about the point of the story. This is the problem with a lot of Jack the Ripper stories. Thanks to From Hell's searing the case into my brain, I'm familiar enough with it to know its beats and see then coming. That means that I have time to pull the story apart and look at the details: What's different about this version? Does it have anything new to say? Ultimately, I decided that Mr. Hyde does. By combining the Ripper story with Jekyll-and-Hyde, it lets each comment on the other. Dr Jekyll's theories about the separation of good and evil helps explain the Ripper's actions, while the Ripper case in turn offers a real-life example of those theories at work.
Unfortunately, the mini-series wants to blur the lines between good and evil. An example of this is that there's no visual distinction between Jekyll and Hyde, but the story reinforces the idea in other ways too. While I appreciate the ambition of that goal, I think it's kind of misguided for this particular story, which would seems to be all about the separation of those two natures. That's what Jekyll's serum was supposed to do in Robert Louis Stevenson's story and if there's ever been an example of a purely evil human, Jack the Ripper is it.
By the final issue though, the story's weaknesses don't matter very much. It ends with a strong climax that made me forget the themes I'd been wrestling with. The story's strength is in its two, lead characters: Hyde and Inspector Adye. Their relationship and conversations are fascinating and I wanted to see both of them survive to the end of the story. As I approached the conclusion, that's all that mattered to me.
I also read the first two issues of BOOM!'s Elric: The Balance Lost. I think Elric fans will enjoy it. The problems I have with it are the same problems I have with Moorcock's stories: not enough focus on Elric – whom I find fascinating – and too much on the other incarnations of the Eternal Champion. An advantage the comic has over the novels though is that it makes the non-Elric incarnations more interesting to me by doing the work of visualizing them and their worlds for me. I never spent a lot of time doing that in the novels because I was too busy wishing we could get back to just Elric.
I also appreciate The Balance Lost's including a new incarnation of the Eternal Champion from our world. Not only does that give new – or, in my case, extremely lapsed – Elric readers a character through whom to learn about Moorcock's Multiverse, but it allows Moorcock's ideas about Law and Chaos to play out in a real-world setting. While I think that Balance Lost is heavy-handed (many will disagree with me though) about how it assigns Law and Chaos to particular political groups in the US, it's still interesting to see those groups' agendas carried out to their ultimate conclusions. It also invests me in a very real way in the struggle to maintain balance between those two forces.
Brigid Alverson
I finally got around to reading Anya's Ghost, by Vera Brosgol, and I was blown away by it. Brosgol's simple, rounded style belies the sophistication of her story. Anya is every teenager, uncomfortable and awkward, wishing she could be normal, like one of the cool kids. A chance encounter with a ghost seems to be the answer to her prayers, but then the ghost takes over and things get ugly. The ghost story is pretty good, but what Brosgol is really writing about is growing up, pushing away the things of your past and then embracing them again, realizing that the others you envy are as scared and troubled as you are, and most important of all, learning empathy for others. The art and writing are top notch, and I really hope this book will catch on with high-schoolers the way Smile did with the middle school crowd.
I was fortunate enough to get an advance copy of Matt Phelan's Around the World, the story of three travelers who traveled around the globe at the turn of the 19th century: Thomas Stevens, who did it on a bike, Nellie Bly, who did it for the publicity, and Josiah Slocum, who did it solo in his sailboat. Phelan's style is both simple and complex: Despite the exotic subject matter, he eschews complicated backgrounds filled with local color, but he will devote three panels to a single double-take, and he often follows a conversation with a reaction shot. The section on Stevens was my favorite, because I enjoyed his little sketches of Stevens falling off his penny-farthing bicycle in a number of acrobatic ways. My advance copy, alas, is in black and white; it looks like Phelan will use a fairly muted, pastel palette for the book, which suits his linework. It's highly entertaining, and I can't wait to see the finished version when it comes out in October.
Tim O'Shea
The Incredible Hulks #634: Intrigued to see where writer Greg Pak is taking Bruce Banner/Hulk before he ends his long run with the character. One has to wonder if Amadeus Cho will appear anywhere after this (I've grown to like the character). Also add Pak and artist Paul Pelletier to the list of creators I would love to see write Doctor Strange (he guest stars in this arc).
The Iron Age #3: Note to Marvel editor Thomas Brennan: You just worked with Louise Simonson, an experienced writer with an ability to write solid characters. Go find a monthly book for her. I love seeing Louise Simonson writing in present day comics, but I want more than these "flashback" homage assignments (Simonson also wrote for DC's current retro project).
Red Robin #16: An interesting coda to the series, which always had Tim Drake dancing with a darker path. I was surprised to see him leaning seemingly toward the darker path at the end of this issue. Not the satisfying end I had hoped for, but still an effort to give Drake's character some closure on a major front.
Marvel Adventures #17: Paul Tobin remains the master of done in one storytelling that makes this comic a must read for me. I loved his approach toward Black Widow in this issue, particularly the bluntness with which she deals with Nick Fury.
Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #522: I never imagined that in the chaos of the Fear Itself event, writer David Liss could find a way to inject a smidge of humor in the book, but he does. Also, this series is at its strongest when artist Francesco Francavilla is on board (as he is with this arc). I cannot wait to see how Liss ends the Hate Monger arc with the next issue. Extra points for the usage of an engaging supporting cast.
Batgirl #24: Good lord, Bryan Q. Miller finally writes a DC Comics series coda completely worth reading. Not only is almost everything wrapped up, but he uses Black Mercy as a means to reveal the vast possible arc scenarios that might have occurred if the series had continued. And the read is even more enjoyable if you check out the DC Women Kicking Ass guest post that Miller wrote this week (and we previously linked to, of course). Of all the possible scenarios, I wish we had gotten to see a time travel team-up between Babs, Cass and Stephanie during WWII with the Blackhawks.
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Fantastic Four #307-323 (written by Steve Englehart, Pencilled by John Buscema and Keith Pollard, inked by Joe Sinnott). Due to the 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four, I decided to pull out some of my old comics and dip my toes into some FF stories. I had been recently re-reading the first Fantastic Four omnibus that my wife had given me for a Christmas gift a few years back, but the anniversary along with Marvel's teasing of the return of the Human Torch made me wistful for Englehart's run. Why? Well, Englehart had crafted a series set in "real time" as opposed to "Marvel time." In other words, readers were seeing real evolution in the Fantastic Four for the first time in a long while. Things weren't static, and this is actually the reason why I picked these comics up off the shelf at the time. I was curious to see what these changes would mean and Englehart didn't disappoint. Issue #307 sees Reed and Sue walk off into the sunset to raise Franklin while ol' Blue Eyes takes over running the team. Issue #308 solidifies the new FF as Ms. Marvel and Crystal hook up with Ben and Johnny (though that issue also sees the unfortunate Fasaud storyline and that was an early bump along the way). Later issues are stronger as the team begins to jell and has a number of cosmic adventures in true Fantastic Four fashion.
Are these perfect comics? No, I don't think so. Englehart overly uses caption boxes and it gives the narration a "heavy" feeling that I don't think has dated well. The same could be said for his use of thought bubbles. While I actually miss the use of thought bubbles in contemporary comics, in this case their use overly-dramatizes certain sequences and gives the stories more of a "soap operish" feel that didn't work well for me. That said, the freshness of the team and the sense of evolution is unmistakable and that DID speak to me. The departure of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman is poignant (though admittedly not nearly as much as Alan Moore and Curt Swan's "Whatever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow?") and that freshness also gives the creative team a chance to explore both old friends and foes and show them in a new light. I'm certainly not saying that real time stories are the end all and be all of good comics, but stories like these show how well it can work when it's done well. And make me wish that Marvel had never stopped evolving.
The Mighty Thor Omnibus (written and illustrated by Walt Simonson). I actually have many of these issues as periodicals, but I couldn't resist picking up a copy of this to be able to read, especially after I learned that Simonson had kept all of his art boards and this edition was put together from new scans before being re-coloured by Steve Oliff and his Olyoptics Color Shop. These are, to my mind, truly fantastic comics. Walt Simonson's respect and love for the character (spelled out in some of the early letter pages that are sadly lacking from the Omnibus edition) is apparent from the get-go as are his feelings for the Norse myths. His Thor is a wonderful fusion of the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby 60s Thor and the best that the Norse myths have to offer. It's funny; Marvel's Thor is one of those characters that's tricky to do well. When he's not up to snuff the stories are these weird hybrids of Shakespearean dialogue mixed with heavy melodrama. Simonson's run is the exact opposite and his entire run (even the frog!) works very, very well. What's also interesting to me, in this era of decompressed storytelling we find ourselves in, is how each issue stands on its own and yet is still part of a bigger overall story. There's no feeling of padding it out.
Since I'm also a big fan of Simonson's art, his work on Thor is amazing. Thor "feels" cosmic and there's a very strong contrast between the scenes set in Asgard versus the Earth-bound scenes set primarily in New York City. His penciling and composition is great, but his inking is just unbelievable. Strong and bold but always with a clear purpose in mind. Great stuff.
Another aspect that makes Simonson's Thor a cut above almost anything else is the lettering by John Workman. His lettering is stunning throughout Simonson's run and it does exactly what good lettering is supposed to; engage the reader without confusing them. The balloon placements make sense and Workman leads your eye throughout both panel and page without confusing you or forcing you to read balloons out of order. It's intuitive. His use of sound effects (something I'm normally not crazy about) works well here, too. His approach shows, to my mind, how much lettering is a part of good storytelling.
The one criticism I have is the colouring. My sensibilities are old-school and I suspect others will disagree with me here but what the heck; as much as I like a lot of what Olyoptics does, I just find there's something missing in the Omnibus colours compared to the original issues. The colours are a bit garish and over-rendered to my mind compared to the more muted colours that were displayed in the original issues. I suspect Oliff was trying to balance the original colouring with current sensibilities, but it doesn't work perfectly for me. Does that mean it's bad? No, no. Far from it. For my tastes just not as good. Oh, and I should add that the omnibus has brilliant blacks, especially when compared to the original issues, mainly due to the better quality of the actual paper and printing process.
Speaking of colouring, I was also recently re-reading Shaolin Cowboy (issues #1-7, written and illustrated by Geof Darrow). The colourist here is Peter Doherty and his colouring is absolutely fantastic. Really stunning stuff. Burlyman chose a terrific paper to print Shaolin Cowboy on and Doherty's colours really come to life on its texture. There's a beautifully muted sense to them that didn't over-power me and yet they still remain rich and vibrant. Often times paper used for comics and graphic novels is very slick and the colours are almost overpowering as a result. At least to me. In the case of Doherty and the Cowboy, the colours and interior paper work together extremely well. Better, I think, then the colours on the slicker cover stock for each issue. I should add that Darrow's "ligne claire" style really works well with Doherty's colour sense and palette.
Darrow's storytelling on Shaolin Cowboy was also very, very good. What's interesting to me is that the comics that draw me back and make me re-read them are the ones that have the strongest storytelling. Dave Gibbons is a natural. So is almost any Jim Shooter comic; he seems to bring that out of his illustrator collaborators. And, of course, Jack Kirby was probably the greatest. Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy is, I think, top-notch for this. Very strong storytelling, especially considering how peculiar the actual story is. The plots get weirder as the story progresses (oh, hell, they're weird from the get go and just get weirder), but despite that his storytelling is clear throughout. Lastly, Darrow's inking is great. He mixes thin and thick contours and your eye knows exactly what the focus is on each and ever panel. No confusion, no fuss and no muss. You know what to look at and why. Brilliant.
Continuing on the storytelling front, I finally got my hands on Jim Shooter and John Romita Jr.'s Star Brand run that also came to an abrupt end when, as I mentioned earlier, Shooter was fired from Marvel. At the time, the New Universe did not grab me as a reader. I was perfectly happy with the current universe, thank you very much, so the idea of a "new" one was not appealing. Well, in hindsight, at least with Star Brand, I was wrong and reading this series was a very pleasant surprise. Romita Jr.'s storytelling is top-notch; he establishes everything clearly and I was never confused in any of the issues. 'Course, that's not really a surprise since Romita Jr. is one of the best storytellers in comics. Shooter's writing here was also very good, and Shooter and Romita Jr. really work well together. Everything is smooth and clear and, when I mentally compare this to some contemporary super hero comics, I'm surprised at how much I prefer a comic like this.
I did find the story a bit rushed in the first issue. A lot of things happen very fast; Shooter's establishing as much as he possibly can right away and I think some of that could may have waited 'til issue #2. I suspect trying to get a new line launched probably meant that he wasn't taking any chances, but the story worked better on a re-read then the first time through. Still, for a comic from this era (circa 1986), it's pretty good stuff and holds up very well today. Certainly more adult in tone and characterization and it's a shame that things all went to hell at Marvel shortly after the series launched. Being a fan of his later Valiant books, I think the echoes between Star Brand and Valiant are also pretty strong.
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In the middle of moving...
In just one and a half week I will be in Orlando and finally moving all my stuff in one place. This is phenomenal. Opted not to drive this weekend for a better strategy. Wonder which Josh Groban music would give me quite a moving experience.
I'm quite astounded at the Office for featuring Feast of the Tabernacles at the Garden. Shaking leaves and lemon truly does make one a great date! For a Palm date. I' so tired now and must get some sleep. All my moving bookings are done this morning. Time for my car negotiation and boxes for moving. I'm so excited! And I josh can't hide it!
I've been soaking in the Prophetic ministry teachings lately. Quite controversial and I'm liking it more and more. It just dawn on me that much of Josh Groban's lyrics are futuristic or retrospective. Oh wells, if History repeats itself...I'm always at the winning end!
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is visiting Libya in a new show of defiance to an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court on charges of Darfur war crimes.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir embraced Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gadhafi and thanked him for his warm welcome, as both leaders met at the Colonel's private tent in his home town of Sirte, 600 kilometers east of the capital, Tripoli.
President al-Bashir's trip to Ethiopia and Libya was his third visit abroad since a warrant was issued for his arrest on March 4 by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
Colonel Gadhafi is currently president of the African Union and he recently told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon the warrant against Mr. Bashir constituted a "grave precedent against the independence of less powerful states, their sovereignty and their political choices."
The Libyan leader has also warned that the ICC is "selective" in meting out justice, and that it is "employing a policy of double standards in targeting African and third-world states."
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha thanked Ethiopia and Libya for welcoming President al-Bashir and said Sudan was capable of handling the humanitarian situation in Darfur on its own.
He says Sudan thanks the Ethiopian people for standing up against the unjust decision by the international criminal court, as well as its readiness to cooperate with Sudan in surmounting this tribulation.
International Criminal Court President Louis Mourino O'Campo told al -Jazeera TV President Bashir's recent travels demonstrate that he is "desperate" and is "only making short trips."
The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East, Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.
"I think the position of providing a middle ground for President Bashir, not denying the ICC decision, but asking for it to be postponed, and giving Bashir some breathing space is a way for the regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to indicate that they do have a position independent from the West," he said. "Of course, the visit to Libya, I mean everything with Libya is always rather unique and peculiar, but that might be Libya-specific, and I am sure that Gadhafi would have welcomed Bashir. Gadhafi likes to defy the international order in general, although he has made his peace with it, but he always likes to be the maverick."
The 22-member Arab League says it will not implement the international arrest warrant, against Mr. Bashir, while Qatar, which is hosting an Arab summit next week, has repeated a pledge not to arrest him even though it is a signatory to the court charter.


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Measuring the "Immeasurable"
Every time I get a chance to talk to parents, I ask them this question. "What do you most want your children to get out of their school experience?" The answers, by and large, are not surprising. "I want them to be good at solving the problems they're going to face." "I want them to enjoy learning." "I want them to be critical thinkers and creative." Rarely is the first thing out of a parent's mouth "I want them to develop the ability to solve differentiated equations" or "I want them to understand the causes of the Civil War." They may want their kids to know such things as well, but they are rarely at the top of the list.
The obvious irony is that we do very little in schools to measure the skills and dispositions that parents seem to want most for their children. Instead, we focus primarily on that which is easier to measure: content knowledge, basic skills and, in limited ways, the ability to apply what students know in certain contrived situations. We have few if any formal measures for a student's ability to collaborate, to ask great questions, or to show empathy when working with others. Those things and more are what Justin Reich, a Harvard researcher in education and technology, calls the "immeasurable."
To paraphrase Reich, the tension is that when we focus our teaching efforts on optimizing the measurable, we risk neglecting the immeasurable.
Important Considerations
Why is this especially important to consider right now? Because technology is radically changing the ways in which students can achieve all of those things we currently value enough to measure. I've written about new platforms like Knewton and Knovation, which attempt to "carve a personalized path for each student through any digital course." Simply put, if what we value is making sure that every child has the skills, information and knowledge to do well on the test—the stuff that's easy to measure—these new platforms will do a superior job of making sure that happens.
But what of the "immeasurables"? What about those skills and dispositions that, one could argue, are even more important to develop at a moment when access to information and traditional curriculum is exploding outside the school walls? (Visit Khan Academy lately?) What risk do we run in neglecting the things that are harder—in some cases much harder—to measure but that will play an increasingly important role in a child's ability to continue learning and creating and contributing once she leaves us?
A Huge Risk
As a parent, it feels like a huge risk. As Tony Wagner says in a recent essay in Forbes, "There's no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know." Yet the overwhelming emphasis on what we assess is about "what you know." We know very little about what our students can actually do with what they know, and the current structures of our systems and our classrooms leave little opportunity for us to move effectively in that direction. It's the important work of school leaders right now to find opportunities for students to do real work for real audiences, and opportunities to turn what they know into performance.
My own kids' success in life will be based primarily on their ability to be patient, persistent problem solvers; to show empathy for the people in global, virtual spaces with whom they will interact and network on a regular basis; and to show the initiative and entrepreneurial thinking that will help them forge their own path as our traditional definitions of work and career continue to shift. That's not to say that they might not need an understanding of differentiated equations and the Civil War. But that can't be the only focus of our assessments any longer.
Will Richardson is an author and educator who also blogs about teaching and learning at willrichardson.com.


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Skilled Migration Western Australia
About State nomination
How to apply for State nomination
Western Australian skilled migration occupation list
Regional areas
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Migration Services staff can provide information about the State nomination application process and the State nomination criteria.
Migration Services staff are not able to help applicants with their application or provide them with migration advice. Legally, this can only be provided by an officer of the Department of Home Affairs or a registered migration agent.
To find a registered migration agent, visit the
Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA).
To be eligible to claim points for work experience, State nomination applicants must have gained their work experience under the following conditions.
Work experience was gained post qualification (does not include traineeship and apprenticeship years).
Work experience was in paid employment.
The applicant worked at least 20 hours per week in the specified occupation.
The applicant performed tasks that correspond with the ANZSCO descriptor for the occupation in question before they would be considered to have been 'employed' in a skilled occupation.
No. Migration Services does not undertake work experience assessments and defers to the relevant assessing authority as to the suitability of work experience for points.
As there are only a few invitations issued for 'restricted' occupations, you may not be invited to apply for State nomination.
View the
Western Australian skilled migration occupation list (WASMOL) to keep yourself informed of your occupation's status.
If you would like more information, email us at
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+61 8 9224 6540.
If your occupation is listed as 'available' and you meet the relevant criteria, you may be invited to lodge an application for State nomination.
If an occupation becomes available, this information will be published on the website.
State nominated visa holders who intend to relocate to another state or territory should email Settlement Services.
You are required to complete and return a short questionnaire stating your reasons for leaving Western Australia.
Following relocation, you are required to advise Settlement Services of your new contact details so that you can continue to be included in our post-arrival survey.
To be eligible for State nomination the minimum amount of funds required is:
Evidence that will be considered includes:
Q: Am I able to provide additional documents for my application while it is being processed?
Yes. Migration Services may also contact associated third parties to verify any information provided.
All required documents must be submitted before your application has been finalised. You cannot submit additional documents after your application has been declined.
Yes. To be granted State nomination, you signed an agreement with the Government of Western Australia and as part of this agreement you agreed to complete a survey every six months for a period of 24 months.
If you are having problems with the online application system you can call Skilled Migration Western Australia during office hours, Monday to Friday 8.30 am – 4.30 pm (WST) on +61 8 9224 6540 or email the team via the online enquiries page. Please state your name, reference number (if applicable) and the problem you encountered while trying to lodge your application.
You are free to apply for the subclass 189 visa. If you do so, your application for State nomination will be declined, as we are no longer able to assess your application, because the Department of Home Affairs has locked access to your expression of interest in the SkillSelect database. The $200 application fee is non-refundable.
No. Applicants with an occupation requiring licensing or registration are advised to contact the relevant occupational licensing or registering body to verify their suitability for licensing or registration.
Yes. You will need a contract of full time employment in Western Australia with a minimum of 12 months remaining on your contract (at the time you apply for State nomination). This contract must be in your nominated (or closely related) occupation.
For example, if you apply for State nomination on 1 January 2017, your employment contract end date must not be before 1 January 2018.
Current employment or contract of employment is evidenced by providing a copy of a signed employment contract with the employer.
A contract of employment needs to include at least the following:
full names of both the employer and the employee;
contract start date and end date (if permanent, only start date is required);
job description of the work to be performed by the employee;
the terms and conditions of employment (include the position's salary, hours of work, leave entitlements, superannuation, among other things) that are no less favourable than those that would apply to an Australian citizen or permanent resident doing equivalent work;
location of employment; and
a statement that the work specified in the employment contract must be performed by the employee and not contracted out to a third party.
Additional requirement of an employment contract:
must be signed and dated by the employer and the employee and provided as one document; and
must be drafted by the employer and not by the employee.
Full time employment is defined as "on average at least 35 hours of work per week".
You may provide two employment contracts which equal at least 35 hours of work per week.
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I'll be honest, what first drew my attention to Casa Luna was the case full of luscious cakes facing the street, so it was added to my "must try" right away, although I didn't get a chance to sample it until my last day in Ubud.
The dining area of Casa Luna
Behind the narrow entry from Ubud's main street is a large airy open dining area. There is additional seating and a sort of lounge down stairs as well. The menu at Casa Luna is an eclectic mix of Mediterranean, Asian and Indonesian cuisines. I was in the mood for something light, and settled on a Vietnamese chicken salad, with an apple-mint juice to drink.
Vietnamese Chicken Salad
The salad was quite good, although I'm not sure what was "Vietnamese" about. There were large chucks of chicken, as well as avocado, with a light vinaigrette dressing.
Ice Cream and Cookies
Since it was their sweets display that first drew me into Casa Luna, I felt compelled to try something from their dessert menu. I decided to try the "cookies and ice cream" item. I was hoping for a large soft cookie topped with a large scoop of vanilla, but instead it was some crunchy chocolate-chip cookies crumbled over the top of a dish of ice cream. It may not have been what I was expecting, but it was good.
Casa Luna is not cheap, but the quality of everything is quite good. Expect to pay at least 60,000 Rupiah per person for a light meal. The restaurant is run by the same people who also run Indus as well as a cooking school. See their web site for locations and more details.