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Monday, 30 June 2008
Blade376 on Blended Learning and 21st Century Education
Stick to the end, because there is a great exploration of how Web2.0 and versioning is meaningless to current digital natives - are we are trying to force 21st Century tools into our world, rather than engaging with its power for our students?
Friday, 27 June 2008
So here we are. Again. End of Pathfinder "celebration"
During the implementation of Benchmarking and Pathfinder at DMU the threat of the deployment of metrics and measurements receded. I felt that we embarked upon a process of understanding our own narratives, and helping both staff and students to come to terms with 21st century technologies to enhance their learning. We formed part of a collective, participant-led agenda for change, which for me was about:
- empowering staff and students to make good choices about the technologies they deploy;
- learning from others; and
- developing e-pedgogies that demonstrate fitness-of-purpose and fitness-for-purpose in the 21st century.
In the morning we heard from John Selby from HEFCE, who highlighted how institutions need to think about value the money, efficiency and latterly enhancement. Now maybe he didn't mean it in that order, but that's the order in which he spoke about these issues: money and metrics first, enhancement second. Dr Selby also highlighted that the Educating Rita model of curriculum delivery was outmoded and inefficient. Sadly he did not note that the politics of Educating Rita, and the empowerment of Educating Rita and the emancipation of that student in that story show its true value, more than the resource implications of one-to-one teaching.
Dr Selby did also highlight how the sociological power of technology-enhanced learning needs, more emphasis. He hinted at a pedagogic shift; one that takes notice of complex behaviours, and thereby empowers people to make their own decisions. This, I believe, is the next step for us. How do we engage with progressive pedagogies? How do we rethink higher education that has relatively static models curriculum delivery and design, in a world that is ever more networked? Do we have a 19th-century model of education in a 21st-century world?
The afternoon was powerful and important - we talked with and learned from other projects - theworld becomes a better place at the chalkface - we need leaders who can empower us there. The afternoon was also depressing. I had a crushing sense that we were back to where we had begun in November 2005, ostensibly due to a single unchallenged comment by John McLaughlin, from DIUS. He was asked, in effect, how we could engage with senior managers within universities to embed change and move the lessons that we have learned forward. His answer was that we have to talk about students as consumers. We have to talk about students in terms of value-for-money. We have to talk about our students in terms of metrics that would deliver efficiency.
Now at the PRHE conference last week, I heard an empowering 10 minute talk from the Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University, Professor Gerald Pillay. In it, he argued for a higher education that focused upon the mind, body and spirit of our students. My thinking about what Professor Pillay had argued relegated metrics, in the form of retention and progression, and value-for-money, to a secondary means of ensuring enhancement where measures supported our staff in improving learning. When we highlight our students as consumers, we raise up the power of metrics, and relegate the mind, body and spirit of our students. We all lose something in this argument; notably, we lose the opportunity to set progressive agendas about opportunity and meaning.
Sarah Porter, from the JISC, argued clearly that we need to know our strategic plan in order to engage with our strategic managers in an effective way. However, it was left to the QAA to offer a sensible and meaningful way forward. It is totally remiss of me not to remember the name of their assistant director who was speaking, but Icannot. However, his argument was that we had "a problem with the rhetoric". He argued that we have to focus upon giving our students "something of lifelong value". A constant, persistent focus upon metrics and outcomes, where those issues define and shape the landscape of higher education, demeans the work that we do every day with our students and staff. It reduces us all to units of measurement, or to actors in a process of measurement.
So, I feel like I let myself down by not challenging Mr McLaughlin. I feel like saying to him that all of the work we have done as practitioners since 2005 has been focused upon enhancing the life chances of our students, through a process of learning from each other. It has only been about costing models, or value-for-money, or efficiency gains, where each of these has been driven by something more humane, "something of lifelong value".
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Speed Read
Spreeder.com is a free to use service where you would typically copy and paste the desired text into a prompt window. At a click of a button, Spreeder flashes the words in sequence to you at your chosen speed removing the tendencies to subvocalise or backtrace.
Do give it a go and let me know how you get on.
[Addendum: Another good article on Speed Reading can be found here]
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Sunday, 22 June 2008
Brief thoughts on Blended Learning Conference 2008
Reflecting on our own paper, The impact of read/write web approaches on the curriculum priorities of PG Cert HE students (Richard, Pam, Heather), there was a good deal of interest and some helpful comments. Julie Hughes (Wolverhampton), for example, suggested giving participants the time to fully formulate their action plans on paper first, recognising that people may be reticent to post publicly for critique (initially at least). Also a query about our constructivist approach - perhaps we could incorporate more scaffolding? One thing we thought we might have explained better was how this all fits in with our particular institutional context (elearning focuses more on embedded co-ordinators and 'champions', rather than a team of learning technologists as in some institutions).
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
The most inspiring conference presentation I have ever seen
However, I also attended a session on vlogging by Myles Dyer, a second-year Psychologist at Herts who uses YouTube to "have the chance to inspire". The man is a real inspiration and the kind of student and social leader who should be cherished. He made me realise how fortunate I am to be involved in a business where we get to engage with the energy and drive of young people.
Myles uses YouTube to speak to the world and to connect with, and crucially to understand, networks of others on a range of issues that are personal to him. His channel focuses upon acceptance, investigation, discussion and adaptation of concepts, views, knowledge and values. Myles highlighted two important, political statements for me:
- "this type of work helps us to develop as people";
- "[I work and collaborate] in the hope that people will be true to themselves".
Both Myles and Ruth/Roger from Ravensbourne made me think that we desperately need to rethink our curriculum, in order to move away from a nineteenth century factory model towards an engagement with those Web2.0 mindsets and approaches that are afforded by a raft of personal as social tools, notably:
- an extended, critical user-focus;
- meaningful, active participation;
- democratisation;
- networking; and
- hope.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Why women quit technology careers
What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave -- most of them during their mid- to late 30s.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008
YouTube stripping supply teacher banned
The film of the English teacher dancing topless in front of a class of 13 and 14-year-olds was then posted on the YouTube website.
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Ofcom Publish Report on Social Networking
The Ofcom report highlights the high percentage of children under 14 and other users in general, who join the social networking sites with little awareness of the need to protect their privacy. The report makes some best practice recommendations to the social networking firms in order to tackle the issue of security and privacy. The full report is available on the Ofcom website at
Studies in Digital Technology
TECH2002 Studies in Digital Technology 2007-2008
'Studies in Digital Technology' is a contextual studies module for media students in the Division of Technology in the Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering. The module aims to apply critical concepts to the study of digital media texts, services and products. In recent years, this has meant an increasing focus on the technologies associated with the concept of 'Web 2.0'.
Students took part in a group project that was assessed through an individual coursework portfolio. The project involved making and/or using media technologies combined with the insight of critical reflection. The groups had to choose one of six technological areas (identified by the 2007 Horizon Report) associated with network media such as the web and mobile phones identified as a focus:
- user-generated content
- social networking
- mobile phones
- virtual worlds
- new modes of electronic publishing
- massively multiplayer online gaming.
The most popular topics were social networking, mobile phones and virtual worlds.
Students used a number of Web 2.0 tools. A group blog and wiki in Blackboard was used to plan and prepare group assessments, and to analyse current developments in digital technology. Individual notebooks were also kept using Tiddlywiki to log and reflect upon their personal progress through the project. I used my own blog and wiki in Blackboard to feed ideas and good practice to the students.
It was suggested that the student blogs could be used as communication tools to think aloud and write about their research, sharing it with others, but the blogs tended to be used more like email than reflective journals. The wikis were set up to be information storehouses for publishing the group's research. The wikis were very slow in developing and the students had to be prompted to work on the presentation, content and navigation of the wikis to make them more effective in time for assessment, and this got a good response.
Students were encouraged to think about two critical frameworks – Critical Technical Practice (CTP), the hands-on analysis of the values that are designed into technologies and how they might be altered, and Experience Centred Design (XcD), or a concern for user experience in technology with an emphasis on felt experience. However, most groups found it difficult to apply these methodologies with any confidence. But there was some good reflection on experience and primary research. One group compared living with and without mobile phones and social networks, another group held a party in Second Life. Overall, traditional weaknesses were exposed. Poor organizational, critical and writing skills were in evidence. Some were empowered by the use of social technologies, but others were as challenged as they would have been by more traditional forms of learning and assessment. Just as with traditional reading and writing, we cannot assume that students will be comfortable with the literacy of read/write web tools, especially where use is prescribed. It will be interesting to see how students will respond to a greater freedom to choose appropriate tools as a framework of assessment as the module develops next year. Is it going to be possible to foster critical literacies and informed decision making about the use of appropriate social tools in response to providing evidence for assessment purposes?
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Learning is a risky process
Whilst the article highlights the opportunities for networking and user engagement with these tools, it also goes on to highlight some perceived dangers for HE. Let's have a look at these.
- "One institution reported three examples of serious problems in one year involving students' use of the new technology including the victim of a student scuffle using Facebook to identify the address of his attacker, and getting his revenge." I can see that this is an issue, but aren't we in the business of trying to support our students' critical thinking, at university and in the world? In any case, I am not sure why this is a problem for higher education rather than society, and most institutions will have regulations covering social relationships on-campus, or where they are directly linked the university.
- "it tends to be individual academics who are driving innovative use of the technology in learning, which can present problems when those academics move on, or when they want support from their institution's centralised IT systems." It tends to be individual academics who are driving innovative use of learning and teaching. The technology is secondary, and in any case Web 2.0 tools tend to flatten hierarchies, so that learners are more in control of their learning. Moreover, these tools also have a low entry level, so that they are easy to engage with. It is the academic implications that need addressing, whether you are using a VLE or external software. One way to get around this is, of course, to ensure that programme teams are fully engaged rather than leaving it to one interested individual. HEIs need to find ways to devolve, to reward and to disseminate innovative practice.
- "Assessment also becomes more difficult when academics are not merely having to assign marks to a heap of scripts but to wade through student podcasts and video clips or Second Life presentations." I would love to see the evidence for this nonsense. A meaningful assessment strategy, perhaps allied to a patchwork text approach,would not be heaping Web2.0 production techniques and artifacts, on top of traditional techniques and artifacts. It would be providing the students with the scope to demonstrate, perhaps through a patchwork assignment or portfolio or personal learning environment, their achievement of learning outcomes. The critical issues here are less workload, and more copyright, security, plagiarism and IPR.
- "There is also the fear that, if students have access to podcasts and YouTube videos of lectures, they may not bother turning up to the real thing. And who owns the copyright to these podcasts - the lecturer? The institution that employs him or her to lecture? No one?"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Hasn't this been said about e-learning and technologies since time began? There is plenty of evidence highlighting that where videos and podcasts enhanced the curriculum, rather than replacing elements of it, student attendance is not damaged, but is engaged. As to the issue of copyright, UCU certainly suggest ways for managing this issue, and we have a collective agreement on the issue.
- "Meanwhile, there are issues over who should be responsible if students or lecturers say something online that results in litigation against the university." Agreed - and we don't really want this to go to case law do we?
- "Then there is the issue of control. A lecturer involved in a discussion on a public social networking site is operating in a forum that belongs not to his or her institution but to the students, and, ultimately to the private company that runs the site. This company may at some point decide to make commercial use of the information on the site, or to withdraw its services." That is a real risk, and it is one of the roles of e-Learning managers to appraise programme teams of these risks, in order that they can make smart decisions about technologies. It is also part of their role to ensure that those programme teams and their students are able to bring evidence forward of assessment for learning and assessment of learning, into institutional learning environments. This will enable guarantees to be made about security and backups. The terms of use of technologies like Twitter and SecondLife highlight their right to use your content in perpetuity, but state that it is yours to exploit. Again, individuals need to make savvy decisions. Equally, who is to say that that our VLE isn't going to be sold/merge/die?
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Friday, 6 June 2008
UK university lectures on iTunes
University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes.
Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music downloading service.
But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material for students to use on iPods or computers
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Thursday, 5 June 2008
Institutional maturity and exit strategies
We are moving towards a position where e-learning professionals are confident enough to push progressive pedagogies - we need to accept that students are learning and developing literacies and self-efficacy and agency in new environments and networks. Moreover, there is a risk that the spaces and tasks that we use to develop academic literacies are disconnected from our students social spaces and networks and literacies. In delivering these types of connections we need to rethink pedagogic paradigms to focus meaningfully upon participation and user-centred pedagogies, in order to connect problems to actions and tools, and to connect networks or collaborative efficacies and concepts to individual outcomes and attainment.
The other points that struck me were the role of structured play in learning and teaching - how to make the use of technologies and the interactions they promote as "fun" [as noted in our e-learning strategy]. There is something to be said here for the themes and principles promoted by the EYFS and how they impact on our understanding of technology-enhanced learning. More will follow on that.
Finally, my good friend LP argued that my preso, which argued for the spreading of a social networking approach and culture across an HEI involving broad academic and academic-related teams working, sharing and collaborating through Web 2.0 tools, demonstrated that we were preparing an exit strategy from the institutional VLE. I argued that we were working on upskilling staff and especially programme teams to collaborate to make better decisions about the tools that they use in the curriculum. These may be Blackboard-based or Web 2.0 tools. This means that we have an institutional maturity, based upon acceptance, experience of and engagement with e-learning tools, that allows us to migrate technologies if we have to. Moreover, those staff are better able to make informed, devolved, empowered decisions now because of the spread of tools and people to advise on their use.
A move towards participation and local engagement means that I might become redundant!!
It's now confirmed: The Television is in Intensive Care
ISPs should now brace themselves, and get a move on with upgading their networks; yesterday Apple announced full-length movie downloads via iTunes to iPods in the UK at competitive rates to DVD's. What next? Live stage performances on the Internet too?!
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Goodbye DVD, hello download
What will happen if (paid for) tv/film downloads go mainstream?
I don't usually like to dabble in technology/market prediction, but I was intrigued by an article in the Guardian today about the prospect of movie downloads displacing DVD as format-of-choice. As the article points out, people still like having something physical to buy/give, and while it may be easy (but perhaps not convenient) for me to get it to the TV screen, it's not easy for the less technically literate. The BBC iPlayer has undoubtedly created a wave of people watching TV in new ways, so it takes little imagination to see it would be possible to make it easy for the masses.
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RMS Leinster
Postcard image of the RMS Leinster
|RMS Leinster
|City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
|Port of registry:
|Dublin, Ireland
|Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire)-Holyhead
|Laird Brothers of Birkenhead
|Yard number:
|12 September 1896
|January 1897
|Out of service:
|10 October 1918
|Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123 on 10 October 1918 while bound for Holyhead.
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|378 ft
|75 ft
|42 ft
|Installed power:
|Single eight-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
|Twin propellers
|24 knots
RMS Leinster was a vessel operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, served as the Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire)-Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123 on 10 October 1918, while bound for Holyhead. She went down just outside Dublin Bay at a point 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) east of the Kish light. Over 500 people perished in the sinking – the greatest single loss of life in the Irish Sea.
The official death toll was 501, out of a total of 771 (77 crew and 694 passengers), which translates to roughly 65% of the souls on board. However, research by Roy Stokes, author of Death in the Irish Sea: The Sinking of RMS Leinster and fellow writer Philip Lecane, author of Torpedoed! The RMS Leinster Disaster, suggests the actual total was higher.[clarification needed][citation needed]
In 1895, the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ordered four steamers for Royal Mail service, named for four provinces of Ireland: RMS Leinster, RMS Connaught, RMS Munster, and RMS Ulster.[1] The Leinster was a 3,069-ton packet steamship with a service speed of 23 knots (43 km/h). The vessel, which was built at Laird's in Birkenhead, England, was driven by two independent four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines.[2] During the First World War, the twin-propellered ship was armed with one 12 pounder and two signal guns.
The ship's log states that she carried 77 crew and 694 passengers on her final voyage under the command of Captain William Birch. The ship had previously been attacked in the Irish Sea but the torpedoes missed their target. Those on board included more than one hundred British civilians, 22 postal sorters (working in the mail room) and almost 500 military personnel from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. Also aboard were nurses from Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
Just before 10 a.m. as the Leinster was sailing east of the Kish Bank in a heavy swell, passengers saw a torpedo approach from the port side and pass in front of the bow. A second torpedo followed shortly afterwards, and it struck the ship forward on the port side in the vicinity of the mail room. Captain Birch ordered the ship to make a U-turn in an attempt to return to Kingstown as the ship began to settle slowly by the bow; however, the ship sank rapidly after a third torpedo struck the Leinster, causing a huge explosion.
Despite the heavy seas, the crew managed to launch several lifeboats and some passengers clung to life-rafts. The survivors were rescued by HMS Lively, HMS Mallard and HMS Seal. Among the civilian passengers lost in the sinking were socially prominent people such as Lady Phyllis Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Abercorn, Robert Jocelyn Alexander, son of Irish composer Cecil Frances Alexander, Thomas Foley and his wife Charlotte Foley (née Barrett) who was the brother-in-law of the world-famous Irish tenor John McCormack, Lieut. Col. Charles Harold Blackbourne, veteran of the Boer War, Alfred White Curzon King, 15-year-old nephew to Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and Maud Elizabeth Ward, personal secretary to Douglas Proby. The first member of the Women's Royal Naval Service to die on active duty, Josephine Carr, was among those killed, as were two prominent trade unionists, James McCarron and Patrick Lynch.[3] Among the less well known were 15-year-old Gerald Palmer, a boy with a physical disability, from "The Cripples Home" in Bray, Co. Wicklow, and Catherine Gould and five of her six children. A Limerick paper described them as "humble decent people". Captain Birch was also among those lost in the sinking. Wounded in the initial attack, he was drowned when his lifeboat became swamped in heavy seas and capsized while trying to transfer survivors to HMS Lively. Several of the military personnel who died are buried in Grangegorman Military Cemetery.[4]
Survivors were brought to Kingstown harbour. Among the survivors were Michael Joyce, member of parliament for Limerick, and Captain Hutchinson Ingham Cone, former commander of the USS Dale (DD-4). One of the rescue ships was the armed yacht and former fishery protection vessel HMY Helga. Stationed in Kingstown harbour at the time of the sinking, she had shelled Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin two years earlier. She was later bought and renamed the Muirchú by the Irish Free State government as one of its first fishery protection vessels.
The UB-123 was probably lost in a minefield in the North Sea on its way back to Germany, on or about 19 October 1918. The bodies of her commander Oberleutnant zur See Robert Ramm and his crew of two officers and thirty-three men were never recovered.[5]
In 2008, ninety years after its sinking, a commemorative stamp was issued by An Post, recalling particularly the Post Office's 21 staff who died in the tragedy.[6] The sinking of the vessel is further recalled in the postal museum of the General Post Office, in Dublin's O'Connell Street.
See also[edit]
- ^ "RMS Leinster Log". Maritime. Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ "The Irish Mail Service". The Engineer. London: The Engineer. LXXXIII: 280. 18 September 1896. Retrieved 29 November 2017.(registration required)
- ^ C. Desmond Greaves, The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, p.221
- ^ "Grangegorman Military Cemetery". 28 February 2011. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ^ Roy Stokes Death in the Irish Sea: The Sinking of RMS Leinster and Philip Lecane Torpedoed! The RMS Leinster Disaster
- ^ "Minister Hanafin launches RMS Leinster anniversary stamp". An Post. 30 May 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
Further reading[edit]
- Bourke, Edward J. Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast: 1105–1993, published by the author, Dublin 1994.
- de Courcy Ireland, John "Ireland and the Irish in Maritime History", Glendale Press, Dublin 1986.
- Higgins, John (Jack) The Sinking of the R.M.S. Leinster Recalled; article in the Postal Worker (Vol 14, No 11, November 1936), the official publication of the Post Office Workers Union, written by the only survivor from the ship's mailroom.
- Lecane, Philip Torpedoed!: The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster, Published by Periscope Publishing Ltd, Cornwall TR18 2AW, Softback, ISBN 1-904381-29-4 [www.periscopepublishing.com]. Published in Ireland, hardback, ISBN 1-904381-30-8
- Stokes, Roy Death in the Irish Sea: The Sinking of RMS Leinster, Collins Press, Cork 1998. ISBN 1-898256-52-7
- Liffiton, John L. The Last Passenger Liner Sunk in the Great War. article in the Medals Society of Ireland Journal (No. 49, September 1999).
External links[edit]
- RMS Leinster "Home Site"
- The sinking of RMS Leinster
- An American eyewitness account
- Dun Laoghaire Business Association
- Dun Laoghaire Harbour
- Irish Ships – article by Roy Stokes
- Clare casualties of war
- Communication Workers Union
- Diving information
- video of 90th anniversary
- Irish Wrecks Online
- List of Casualties

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I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the shape of this curvy Orb Vase which I just find irresistibly cute. Possibly it's that the vase looks a bit like an egg with a tiny creature popping through the shell. It's so cute that I want to coo at it like a baby. I've never been much of a green thumb, but owning a vase like this would give me the motivation to get a house plant.
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Asphalt & Rubber is coming to you from the Grand Prix of the Americas this week, and things are already off to an interesting start. With a fire breaking out in the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 garage during the night, the gear for the satellite Yamaha squad was flooded by the Circuit of the America's fire suppression system, which also affected the garages for Yamaha Racing, LCR Honda, and Cardion AB.
Yamaha Racing Boss Lin Jarvis explained that while the small fire was quickly put out by COTA's sprinklers, the team lost one of two servers and several computers to the blaze before it was extinguished. It is not anticipated that the fire will have any affect on Sunday's race, though it could pose a problem for the teams, since they have a quick turnaround for the Jerez round.
Currently, the cause of the fire is presumed to be the lithium battery to Monster Yamaha Tech 3's electric starter for the GP motorcycles, making this incident another eyebrow raising episode in the handling of high-tech battery packs, which have different tolerances and operating procedures than conventional battery pack types.
While certainly a setback to the start of the race weekend, the teams involved dodged a serious bullet by having the fire occur while MotoGP is at COTA, since the Texan track has a sophisticated fire prevention system in place.


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I wanted a good colour mix but had about two varieties too many after my first trawl so which two to drop?
In the end I dropped just one, Hannah Magovern as I didn't really need three reds. I'm sure that I'll be able to squeeze in the extra variety. All except for Midnight claim to be well or highly scented. Midnight scored on colour as I love the dark purple shades. The catalogue also claims that they are all good for cutting. We will see - what's the betting that, even if I like them, these varieties won't be available next year. If so any suggestions for alternatives?


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Elizabeth and Scott's Same Day Edit
This same day edit built itself. Elizabeth & Scott had so many great little details about wedding…but not only that, they had a really fun story of how they met. I'll spare you the details, but let's just say there is a certain breed of dog that is very dear to them both. Usually there is a one or two 'stories' we try to build throughout the day when making a same day edit, but by 2pm we had to start cutting out stories from the same day edit…there was just too much fun stuff going on and the bride was still getting ready!
Elizabeth, Scott, Gabriel, and the rest of their closest friends and family were some of the best people to spend the day with. I keep saying it, but we are so lucky to have the most amazing couples!
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Every fall, San Diego gets treated to a multitude of film festivals—so many, in fact, that it's easy to get overwhelmed. But if you're a movie lover, the San Diego Asian Film Festival's diverse programming schedule is pure catnip. The festival's 14th edition runs Thursday, Nov. 7, through Saturday, Nov. 16, at various theaters, particularly Digiplex Mission Valley Cinemas.
With more than 140 films spread over five specific sections, the 2013 festival (SDAFF) will represent artistic perspectives from a variety of countries around the world. The opening-night ( Finding Mr. Right ) and closing-night ( Documented ) films were highlighted in CityBeat 's Sept. 25 Fall Arts issue, but they represent just the tip of the iceberg.
Most notable is the "Masters" sidebar, featuring the latest work from some of the most well-respected Asian filmmakers working today. My favorite of this impressive group is Jafar Panahi's masterpiece, Closed Curtain , a striking and sometimes surreal jaunt between documentary and fiction that follows a persecuted filmmaker attempting to work through his latest project while hiding out in a seaside villa.
This marks the second time the Iranian director has defied his national government and made a film since receiving a 20-year ban from his chosen profession. While Closed Curtain is indeed a direct reflection of Panahi's own frustration with these crippling artistic limitations (the camera never ventures outside), it's not a film without hope, best expressed in its final shot, which hints at life beyond the walls of imprisonment.
Also in the Masters section is A Touch of Sin , Chinese maestro Jia Zhang-ke's savage indictment of the social contradictions plaguing modern China. Split between four loosely connected tales of murder and revenge (all based on actual reported events), Jia's film explores the economic and cultural shifts that have created a national crisis of institutional failure and violence.
A Touch of Sin is a major departure for Jia, who, in most of his previous narratives and documentaries, has taken a more restrained razor to the artifice of his country's rampant corruption and collusion.
Two very different Filipino films challenge the viewer to see the world anew, with all its broken parts visible to the naked eye. The first is Lav Diaz's four-hour-plus Norte, the End of History , a ravishing look at philosophical posturing and moral rot. The other is Raya Martin's How to Disappear Completely , a synthesizer-scored supernatural thriller that slows down one girl's descent into madness to the point of pure abstraction. Both are essential viewing.
Complex films exist elsewhere in SDAFF's programming, as well. The "Asian American Panorama" showcases strange and beguiling stateside products. The highlight is Jiyoung Lee's Moral Sleaze , a rare cinema oddity that embraces its amateurish qualities to reveal the heinous pretentiousness of fraudulent art making. You won't find a more winning (and strangely evocative) performance than Lee's lead turn as the underappreciated girlfriend of an arrogant filmmaker making a movie shot entirely on an iPhone.
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Rena Hicks Sanford, 89, passed away Monday, March 5, 2012, at the Brian Center.
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Memorial services will be held Thursday, March 8, 2012, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Seymour Funeral Home, with the Rev. Drew Clark officiating.
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Rena is survived by her daughter, Virginia Farmer and husband, Linwood, of Goldsboro; her son, Bernard E. Sanford Jr. of Raleigh; her five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She is also survived by her sister, Margaret LaRosa of Raleigh; her sister-in-law, Idalia Hicks of Raleigh; nephews, Robin Carter and Johnny Hicks and wife, Linda; and a host of other dear loved ones.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard E. Sanford Sr., and her daughter, Gloria Jean Schellhas.
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The Glass Fox StoryThe Glass Fox is located in downtown Williamston, a picturesque hamlet in Michigan's lower peninsula with quaint shops. We do all of the glass etching shown on the website in house overlooking downtown Williamston. This is where our glass etching artisans do the beautiful work shown on our website. After the final inspection of each item, our shipper carefully packages your order for UPS to deliver throughout the USA and Canada. We have been etching glass since 1985 and online since 1999. In addition to providing personalized gifts for thousands of customers over the years, we have done gift items for four of Michigan's Governors, for presentation to visiting government and business dignitaries from around the world. We pride ourselves on our high standard of quality and customer service. All orders are processed through Yahoo! Store's secure site so your information is kept safe.
Our hours are 9:00AM - 6:00PM Monday - Friday, Eastern Standard Time.
How do you order from our site?All of the gift items listed in our store are organized into categories, and these categories are listed on the left-hand side of every page on our site ("christmas ornaments, barware, etc"). To look inside a category, click twice on it with the left mouse button. Once inside each category, you'll find a photograph and item name for every piece listed in that category. To learn details about an item, click twice (also known as "double-clicking") on the underlined name of the item with the left mouse button.
To enlarge a photo of an item, double click on it with the left mouse button.
All items on our site are represented by a photo and a descriptive text (paragraph) which describes the dimensions of the item, what it's made from (glass, crystal, ceramic, etc), and its design details. Many items have lettering style choices and where applicable examples of these are shown beside the photo of every item. DIRECTLY BENEATH the descriptive paragraph for every item are boxes with captions explaining each ("gift card message" "name of couple" "year established", etc) THIS IS WHERE YOU ENTER YOUR PERSONALIZED INFORMATION. You can "click" into these boxes and type information here.
If you hit the ADD TO CART button before entering your personalized info, the item will enter your shopping cart without all necessary personalization information. Should you not notice this, and you go ahead and buy the item, you would receive a call or an email from us regarding the missing information.
If you happen to notice that your shopping cart item does not include any personalized information, simply delete the item from your shopping cart (there is usually a button labeled "delete item" or something similar to this), hit the "return for more shopping" button to return you to our store (or sometimes you can use the "back" arrow in your browser window), click back to the item you wish to purchase, ENTER the PERSONALIZED INFORMATION in the boxes below the item description, and THEN hit the "Add to Cart" button.
Occasionally we hear from customers that they are confused because they are unable to enter their personalized information after they've placed the item into their shopping carts - we apologize for this confusion, but our store is designed so that ALL PERSONALIZED INFORMATION MUST BE ENTERED BEFORE SELECTING "Add To Cart".
What can I expect from The Glass Fox?
Outstanding quality and craftsmanship of products and service. If you are unhappy with the quality or condition of your item, we will replace it for you - even if it's been personalized!
Free gift cards with your custom message
Shipping rates are based on the total dollar amount of your order: Go to Shipping info to see pricing.
Expedited shipping options are: UPS Next Day Air, UPS 2nd Day Air, and UPS 3rd day select. Since the price of these options varies greatly depending on the weight, size and destination of the items, you'll need to call or email for price information. If emailing, please be sure to include the destination zip code, the item and quantity that you'll need rushed. In most cases we can rush your order at our facility and save you the extra cost of expedited shipping.
Note, our shipping to Alaska and Hawaii is handled by the US Postal Service so shipping time may take significantly longer.
We complete your order (usually) within 5 business days of receipt of your order. THEN, we ship it from our location. UPS shipping times vary from 1-6 business days depending upon how far the destination is from Michigan. Have another shipping question? Please email us!
Do you have a question, or prefer to order directly through another person? We'll answer your email usually the same day, or call us at (800) 927-4131.
Thank you for your patronage. Our number one priority is to make you a repeat customer.
The Glass Fox
107 S Putnam Suite 211
Williamston, MI 48895
Local: 517-996-6200
Toll Free: 800-927-4131
107 S Putnam Suite 211
Williamston, MI 48895
Local: 517-996-6200
Toll Free: 800-927-4131


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Monday, 8 December 2014
Loud Woman in Theatre
Download if you wish.
Okay, it's hardly anything genius, just a noise drone, but I like something about it. Good for annoying the neighbours I suppose. I had real problems with the low end (and the whole spectrum really); really boomy at 90-100Hz, so it's been eq'd and compressed/gated quite a lot. Lots of defects all over.
As is usual when doing this stuff, I had other ideas for it after it was finished, but in a mood because I wasn't really satified with it I deleted the original project files in haste. Still, I can start afresh, which is usually better in my opinion.
It is a heavily processed version of this sound by freesound user Klankbeeld, cheers Klank. I chose it specifically because of its quietness (I wondered, what's in there?) and partly because of the sample's title, which I liked and that inspired me to make it a loud woman in a noisy theatre. Which is which is anyone's guess. Only four differently processed tracks of the original sound comprise whole thing.
Processing: quite simple. Severe hardlimiting in Cool Edit over 90% clipped. Positive contrast with dtblkfx (yep, the fucking best free software ever written. GRM Contrast Sucks in comparison). Distortion from Trash. Reverb from Reflect. And post with Ozone 4. I'll refrain from using the word "mastered" with Ozone 4, as I'm far from that level of expertise.
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Welcome to Design 289
Welcome to Design 289 by Hardings, Victoria's largest showroom, hosting a vast range of premium luxury products for your build, renovation or large project development. Here we have 1000m2 of Hardings showroom on our lower level that caters to the public and an additional 800m2 of our Design 289 Showroom showcasing the very best in the latest designer products to hit the market.
Design 289 is a truly unique whole selection destination that is exclusively by appointment only. Boasting both international and local award winning designer products such as Antonio Lupi, GESSI, Asko, De Detrich, formed, Villeroy & Boch, AEG, Smeg and many more premium brands.


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Share Market
The wild ramp, AKA wild leek, botanical name Allium tricoccum, is a flowering perennial plant that grows in clusters. It is a member of the Allium family along with onions and leeks
Calamondin Limes
The Calamondin lime is a cross between a sour, loose skinned mandarin and a kumquat, therefore technically making it an orangequat.
Salanova Lettuces
Salanova® lettuce is a full-sized variety developed for the baby lettuce market. Botanically these varieties are scientifically known as Lactuca sativa.
Betel Nut
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Betel nuts are small, fleshy fruits that mature from green to a yellowish orange and sometimes red. Within the oval-shaped fruit is a hard seed or nut, which is the dried endosperm. This hard nut is what the Areca plant is cultivated for. Often chewed for its psychotropic effects, the Betel nut offers a spice-like flavor similar to nutmeg and cinnamon. Chewing the 'nut' over long periods of time can leave the mouth and lips stained red.
Betel nuts can be found growing year-round in tropical and sub-tropical climates.
Current Facts
Betel nuts are the seeds of the Areca catechu plant, a member of the palm family. Also known as Areca nuts, Betel nuts are chewed as a stimulant in India, the West Indies and Malaysia. The seeds of the Areca catechu plant contain arecoline, a stimulant that produces effects such as alertness, increased stamina and a feeling of euphoria. The Betel nut is used in the same fashion as caffeine or tobacco in Western countries.
Betel nuts are chewed either on their own or in 'Paan'. To make Paan, Betel nuts are grated or cut into fourths and wrapped in Betel leaves along with mint jellies, sweet betel nut chutneys, lime paste, and fennel. Some smaller, possibly immature, Betel nuts are simply wrapped in a small folded leaf and chewed as is. Chewing Paan can act as a breath freshener as well as a stimulant. It has been used to stimulate the appetite and aid in digestion.
Archaeologists have found evidence of Betel nut use by humans going back 4000 years. The Betel nut is native to the West Indies and is cultivated in India and Taiwan. In the 1970s the demand of Betel nut rose and farmers found it easier to cultivate betel nuts than rice, and began converting rice patty fields into betel nut orchards. Today, Betel nut is the 2nd largest cultivated crop in Taiwan. The foraged nuts are sold by street vendors and in farmer's markets in India.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Betel Nut. One is easiest, three is harder.
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Australian explorers
Key points
- When Australia was colonised in 1788, little was known about the inland areas.
- To understand the country, explorers were sent out in search of rivers and land suitable for farming.
- Expeditions were documented in reports and journals.
- Explorers like Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth helped open up Australia for further exploration and farming.
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Nicholas Chavalier, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia Picture Collections.
Early exploration
When Australia was colonised, little was known about the inland areas. The imagination of those among the colony prompted ideas of a paradise existing just beyond the settlement, of being able to walk to China and the presence of an inland sea. In search of a better life, many convicts escaped only to find themselves lost in the dense, rugged and seemingly never-ending bushland.
To understand the country, explorers (generally professional surveyors) were officially sent out in search of rivers and land suitable for agriculture, to survey the land and to later source routes for lines of communication. They were often accompanied by convicts, Aboriginal trackers or those who had developed strong bush survival skills.
Major expeditions were documented through reports and journals, which were made up of sketches and maps noting rivers, mountains, plains and deserts, and sometimes information about Aboriginal groups the explorer came across.
One of the first major expeditions took place in 1813, led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth. Unable to travel west into the country's interior because of the Great Dividing Range, the party found a way to cross the Blue Mountains, opening up the rest of the continent for further exploration and farming.
Noted explorers
- George Bass and Mathew Flinders (Bass and Flinders) are recognised for proving there was a channel of water (Bass Strait) between the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
- Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills (Burke and Wills) were the first Australian explorers to cross Australia from south to north at the expense of their lives.
- Edward John Eyre and Wylie: Eyre and his Aboriginal companion Wylie became the first men to cross South Australia from east to west when they trekked the Nullarbor Plain from Adelaide to Albany.
- Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian (now Germany) born scientist, who found a new route between the Darling Downs in southern Queensland and Port Essington near Darwin. His party mysteriously disappeared when it later attempted to cross from Brisbane to Perth.
- Scottish-born Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell was the NSW surveyor-general for 27 years. He led four expeditions, carrying out most of his surveys in eastern Australia.
- Charles Sturt was born in India and discovered the Darling and Murray rivers. His explorations led England to establish a colony in South Australia. Sturt also dispelled the myth that there was an inland sea in the middle of Australia through his journey to the Stony and Simpson deserts.
- John McDouall Stuart crossed Australia from south to north, passing through the centre of the continent. His journey mapped out the route which was later followed by the Overland Telegraph.
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Doing it by the book
As a parent it's only natural to want to help your child, but when it comes to homework and study, the completed work should be theirs.
Here are some important points to remember to ensure your child is following good practice for a lifetime of learning.


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ED#100 : NVIDIA Responds To The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series of graphics cards, NVIDIA's advisories have started sounding a little "desperate". This didn't use to be the case when ATI was shipping barely competitive cards like the Radeon HD 2900 XT.
The increasing desperation was particularly evident in the most recent advisory, which was sent out when ATI launched the eagerly-awaited Radeon HD 4870 X2 dual-GPU graphics card. From the way NVIDIA was attacking the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in the advisory, you might be forgiven for thinking that NVIDIA was the underdog fighting to survive.
To be fair to them, NVIDIA is not the only one to employ such tactics. They are merely the latest to do so. Let's take a look at their latest advisory. Our comments will be coloured red.
Price Comparison
Based on what we've seen in 4870 X2 preview reviews, we believe the best price-performance comparison would be versus GTX 260 SLI.
* The 4870 X2 uses two GPUs, so it makes sense to compare to an NVIDIA dual-GPU configuration in the similar price category as the primary comparison.
* If you look online at E-tail sites, you should see many GTX 260s sell for $269 after rebate, and some as low as $249.
* Two GTX 260's in SLI mode are comparable to the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in both price and performance.
Our check of Pricegrabber showed that the lowest price for the GTX 260 was US$269.99 for an MSI GeForce GTX 260. Most of the cards were priced higher at US$280-330. Although the Radeon HD 4870 X2 has a MSRP of $549, its street price is likely to drop below that after the initial buying frenzy. Unless NVIDIA adjusts their pricing, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 should cost less than two GeForce GTX 260 cards.
Frankly, as far as pure performance is concerned, does it really matter whether the card has a single GPU or ten? Certainly, the 4870 X2 isn't as elegant a solution as a single-GPU graphics card but it is still a single slot graphics card. In fact, it is a far more elegant solution than NVIDIA's GX2 cards which use two PCBs.
Initial benchmark results show that the NVIDIA GTX 260 SLI may actually be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in some games (e.g. Crysis), while the 4870 X2 is a lot faster in other games. In fact, the ratio seems to be around 30:70 (in favour of the 4870 X2) at this point in time.
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NVIDIA Responds To The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2