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Early History
Archaeological evidence, such as tools, weapons and household items, indicates that the Beothuk inhabited Newfoundland long before European colonization. It is believed that they may be descended from earlier people — sometimes referred to as the "Little Passage" people, in reference to the first recognized Little Passage site on Newfoundland — who occupied the Island for several thousand years.
Traditional Territory
At the time of European contact, around the 16th century, the Beothuk occupied at least the south and northeast coasts of Newfoundland. Shortly after the Europeans' arrival, the Beothuk moved away from their coastal homelands and ancestral fish camps to inland territories. Possible violent encounters with the Vikings between 800 and 1000 CE caused the Beothuk to avoid the European newcomers as much as possible. (See alsoNorse Voyages).
Traditional Life
The Beothuk lived in bark- or skin-covered tents in the summer, and in semi-subterranean (partially underground) houses during the cold months. (See also Architectural History: Indigenous Peoples). They were primarily a coastal people, organized in small bands throughout the various bays of Newfoundland to fish and hunt seals, other sea mammals and birds. They also may have visited interior locations to hunt caribou at river crossings, but the pattern of a winter-long interior occupation does not seem to have occurred until post-contact times. Bows and arrows, harpoons and spears were used in hunting, which often took place from seaworthy bark canoes.
The most distinctive of Beothuk artifacts are carved bone, antler and ivory pendants intricately decorated with carved patterns. Many of these items were recovered from grave sites in caves or rock shelters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Another notable feature of Beothuk culture was the people's lavish use of powdered hematite, or red ochre, with which they painted their canoes, other artifacts and even their bodies. Since these people were the first North American Indigenous peoples encountered by Europeans, it is possible that their custom of using red ochre was responsible for the name "Red Indians," which was later applied to all First Nations peoples.
Religion and Spirituality
Little is known about the Beothuk spirituality. As Algonquian peoples, the Beothuk may have shared similar origin stories, religious practices and worldviews. A Beothuk captive named Oubee once testified that her people revered the sun and moon. Shawnadithit, the last known Beothuk, added that her people believed in a spirit world with a supreme spirit (potentially the Creator) and monsters or dark spirits. (See also Indigenous People: Religion and Spirituality).
Word lists transcribed by Europeans in the 18th or early 19th centuries indicate that the Beothuk language was related to the Algonquian language family. Little else is known about the language, which is now considered extinct. (See also Indigenous Languages in Canada).
European Contact
The earliest mention of the Beothuk in European records was perhaps in 1501, when Italian diplomat Alberto Cantino wrote of about 50 Indigenous men and women captives — possibly Beothuk — who he had seen in Lisbon, Portugal. During the era of contact, some European explorers captured and sent Indigenous peoples to Europe to be slaves or to serve as living examples of the "exotic" New World. Most of these captives died on the way to Europe or shortly after they arrived. There is no confirmation, however, that the captives Cantino saw were Beothuk. (See also Slavery of Indigenous People in Canada).
During the 1600s, the Beothuk encountered European fishermen who constructed and worked at temporary campsites in the summertime along the coast. The Beothuk retrieved and reworked the metal objects the European fishermen left behind when they returned to Europe in the fall (such as nails, fish hooks and scraps of iron) into arrowheads, blades and other tools. The Beothuk therefore received European goods without participating in the traditional trade network developed between most Indigenous peoples and Europeans during this time.
The establishment of permanent European settlements in the 1700s significantly altered the Beothuk way of life. With the French at Placentia and the English settled in areas from Conception Bay to Bonavista Bay, the Beothuk withdrew from European contact and became increasingly isolated. By the mid-1700s, English settlement in Newfoundland increased. The Beothuk now had to compete with white fur trappers who were familiar with the Newfoundland interior. (See also Fur Trade). In addition, they were increasingly denied access to bays where they fished. This created tension, and at times, conflict, between the Beothuk and the Europeans.
By the early 1800s, their population was subsequently reduced, as they were forced to live along the Exploits River system and subsist on the inadequate food and shelter resources of the interior. Some historians also argue that European disease — namely tuberculosis — may have contributed the reduction in their population. During this time, the Beothuk were displaced, and some, such as Demasduwit — one of the last Beothuk — were forcibly taken by Europeans or killed.
In the 1820s, a Scottish explorer took the skulls of two Beothuk people, Demasduwit and Nonosbawsut, as well as what were likely related burial items, and brought them to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they were eventually housed at the National Museum of Scotland. Indigenous peoples, notably the Mi'kmaq, in association with the Canadian government and the Newfoundland and Labrador government, have made attempts to repatriate the remains. In January 2019, National Museums Scotland reached an agreement with the federal government to arrange for the transfer of the remains back to Canada.
As a result of European encroachment, slaughter and diseases to which they had no natural resistance, the Beothuk's numbers diminished rapidly following contact. The last known surviving Beothuk, Shawnadithit, died of tuberculosis in St. John's in June 1829.
According to Mi'kmaq oral tradition, the Beothuk are not extinct; rather, they intermarried with other Indigenous groups along the mainland after the Europeans had maintained tight control of the coastal areas. Their descendants therefore live on in other Indigenous communities. Some people have also suggested that the Beothuk intermarried with Vikings, and might therefore have descendants living in parts of present day Iceland. These theories are not the most popular or widespread, but they challenge the idea that the Beothuk have completely disappeared.


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Feast is the fourth film in the film Series SEEKAGO written and directed by eve Warnock. Feast was shot May 11th and was an incredible production that involved over 25 artists. From costume designers to peformers, to special effects artists, to video artists. The team was amazing and I am honored to work with such talented indivuals.
Link to the Feast Project website https://feastflight.wordpress.com/
Vulture played by Jeffrey Bauer: costume design by Aidan Seine, Tina Matthews, eve WarnockRavens played by Sara Rose, Vanessa Vasquez, Brandon Hayword, Sara Hornsby: Costume by Marina Fini and eve Warnock
Owl: Played by Athena Angle: Costume by Melanya HamasyanMagpies played by Morgan True, Shelby Backman, Melanya Hamasyan, Luke Wilson, and Catalina Giraldo: Costume by Kathrin Burtscher, Claire Frey, and eve Warnock
Vultures played by Dorothy Souza, Sam Trillo, and Jeffry Bauer: Costume by Aidan Seine, Tina Matthews, and eve Warnock
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If you're participating in a coder contest and using LearningStudio APIs, this quick start guide will give you a quick orientation to the LearningStudio platform and how to get started with our APIs.
About LearningStudio
LearningStudio is one of Pearson's largest Learning Management Systems (LMS). It is a fully-hosted Software as a Service platform, offering scalability and deep analytics, a variety of learning tools, and a robust API suite for extending the platform in new and imaginative ways. As a multitenant, Software-as-a-Service offering, Pearson hosts the platform on our servers on behalf of our clients. With few exceptions, all clients are on the same version of LearningStudio all the time.
When building your application on the LearningStudio APIs, you can build a variety of different things:
- Build an external, third party learning tool
- the tool can be embedded in LearningStudio using SSO
- use LearningStudio APIs for a deeper integration (like Dropbox APIs for submitting homework or Grades APIs for sending grades back).
- Create a mobile app for a specific learning purpose, use the LearningStudio APIs to make a richer, course-specific user experience.
- Create new insights on course performance through dashboards or analytics, using the APIs as your data source.
- Real-world integrations can feed into LearningStudio, like swiping a card for attendance taking, to improve the in-person learning experience
- Build a learning app that is powered by LearningStudio, but doesn't require LearningStudio to use. All the components of a learning experience are available by API, including content, grades, assignments, etc.
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About Our APIs
Our APIs are known as "Web APIs" or "Web Services." The Course APIs, which you will mostly use in LearningStudio coding contests, are known as REST APIs. To use these APIs, communication happens over HTTP, exactly the same way that webpages are requested and retrieved. To learn more about REST and HTTP-based APIs, we encourage to read A Beginner's Introduction to HTTP and REST
Note: There are not language-specific APIs or extensions. You will need to use your programming language's method for executing HTTP requests. However, we do have code libraries built in PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and Java, which make it easier to use the Course APIs for each of these languages. See the "Course APIs" section below.
Note: If you are new to leveraging APIs for app development, be sure to check out our section on the PDN covering how to explore and invoke the LearningStudio APIs using Postman. A direct link to the summary page and details for setting up your Postman collection can be found here.
Documentation and Developer Support
The Pearson Developers Network is the source for all documentation related to the LearningStudio API ecosystem. This guide is a summary of that information tailored for new third party partners, with links to relevant pages on the PDN portal. When you have a general question about the APIs, their capability or behavior, or asking about how to do something with them, please use the Developer Community.
Data Model
Every client is an isolated tenant on the LearningStudio platform. We call each tenant a campus and each campus' data is only accessible using a unique set of API keys. Each campus is divided into nodes, which won't normally affect your development for the contest.
Terms are time-based containers for courses, setting the start and end dates for courses. Courses have a start and end date, and so there may be many copies of the same course across multiple terms. Courses are where you'll spend most of your energy and where integrations are most commonly done.
Note: When you request LearningStudio API keys, you'll be given two sandbox courses and two sandbox users enrolled in those courses. You'll most likely do most of your work in a course and with course data.
Courses are identified by an integer Course ID. They can also be identified by any number of Call Numbers, which is the client's catalog identifiers for the course.
Users are identified by an integer User ID. They can also be identified by a single Login ID, which is the client's identifier for them and/or the method by which the user signs into LearningStudio.
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Course APIs
These are the APIs you will use most in a LearningStudio Coder Contest. Almost every aspect of a LearningStudio course can be accessed via these REST-based APIs.
Available APIs:
- Social APIs - retrieving & updating
- Course Info and Enrollments (Roster) (by Role type) - retrieving only
- Content Structure and Course Content - retrieving only
- Course Schedule - retrieving only
- Dropbox (assignment submission) - retrieving structure & creating documents
- Exams - supports taking exams outside LearningStudio (i.e. in a mobile app)
- Grades - retrieving & creating
- Threads - retrieving & creating
- Activity Feed - retrieving only
- Announcements - retrieving & creating (role restricted)
- Document Sharing - retrieving & creating
- Tracking - creating only
- User Information - retrieving only
Important: Authentication for LearningStudio's Course APIs is often a steep learning curve especially for coding contests where you may be unfamiliar with both LearningStudio and RESTful APIs. You are strongly encouraged to use the Code Libraries mentioned above, which will do most of the heavy lifting for you.
We support two methods of authentication: OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2. Both methods control access to the APIs (and client data) through an Application ID, Token Key Moniker, and Secret. The Application ID will identify your application across any and all campuses you integrate with, but the Token Key Moniker and Secret are unique for every campus.
OAuth 1 is our "system-to-system" method, typically used when you don't need the context of a particular user. It also gives you administrative access to many course functions, and nothing is restricted based on schedule or user access rights. With this mode, every request is signed individually. This is an ideal approach when writing grades back to the LMS. Some APIs do not permit OAuth 1 connections.
OAuth 2 is our "user impersonation" method, more common when acting on behalf of a user, such as thread posts or mobile applications. Your requests are authorized through the use of a user token, and the data you have access to is restricted to that user's access rights.
Both methods rely on the use of the CMAC-AES hashing algorithm. While this is a rare algorithm, our support team is well-versed in its use and can usually help get you started with sample code or helpful libraries.
More information:
- The LearningStudio Course APIs
- Code Libraries and Hello World for Course APIs
- Third-Party Attendance Tracking API
- Authentication
Code Libraries and Reference Applications
We have new code libraries to make development with our RESTful Course APIs faster and simpler, especially when it comes to dealing with authentication. All new developers, especially in student coder contests, are encouraged to use these libraries, they really do make life easier.
You can also use the Hello World & API Explorer application to explore the RESTful APIs without worrying about the authentication learning curve.
You are also welcome to reference applications or sample code on our GitHub repo to help get you up and running, provide any needed inspiration or simply help get you unstuck.
Lastly, in addition to documentation and code sample in our GitHub repo you can review summaries of previously developed applications by our developer partners and partner schools within the Showcase section of the PDN.
Single Sign On (SSO)
Single Sign On (SSO) creates a more seamless experience for teachers and learners. When an outbound SSO is configured, a link in a LearningStudio course will launch your application, sending along context information about the current user and course which you can use with the APIs to get more information.
If you want to use an SSO to launch your application, it needs to be pre-configured by our Developer Services team, at which point we'll provide you a URL to use in the course content. SSO links can only be inserted into courses. SSO integrations can be appear inside the content frame of LearningStudio, or can open a new browser window.
Our preferred SSO method is to use Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), an EdTech standard defined by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. We strongly recommend that all EdTech software providers implement the LTI standard, because once implemented, it can be used with any number of other EdTech providers and LMSes.
LearningStudio supports LTI v1.0, or "basic" LTI for launching third party tools. In LTI launches we send a standard set of LTI parameters which satisfies most configurations, but can also include additional data points about courses or users, or include custom parameters you require. Here is the list of standard parameters and data points we send in LTI.
Outcome / Grade Exchange
LearningStudio does not currently support LTI 1.1 for Outcome Exchange. If you need to pass grades back to the LMS, you can use our RESTful Grade APIs (below).
More Information:
- Overview of LearningStudio Outbound SSO
- The LTI 1.0 standard from IMS Global
- LTI Parameters and Data Points
- Setting up a New SSO Integration
- Integrating SSO Links into LearningStudio
SIS Interoperability
If you want to create an integration that creates courses, users, and enrolls users in courses, you would use our SIS Interoperability features. For schools, an SIS is the Student Information System and is typically the official record of students, courses, grades, financial information, etc. Note that these are SOAP-based APIs, which are more difficult to use, and if you want to use them for a coding contest you will need special permission by emailing the Developer Services group with an explanation of what you want to build.
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RESTful APIs are ideal for retrieving information from a course or writing some data back to it. When applications need to occasionally check in on the state of a course, or know when something happens in a course to which it needs to respond, this would normally necessitate frequent polling of the APIs. This is an inefficient use of resources (for both you and Pearson), so we encourage developers to leverage Eventing.
In Eventing, you can create a listener where we will send a POST request with a payload of information about an event in LearningStudio. The payload will contain enough information for you to either use as is or leverage additional API calls to get more information. Events are triggered when:
- A grade is entered or updated for a student
- A student completes an exam
- Thread posts are created or deleted
- Announcements are created, deleted, or read
- Dropbox items are created or deleted
- The Activity Tracking API is used
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Getting Started
To develop against LearningStudio APIs, you will be given access to sandbox courses and data within the LearningStudio Sandbox Campus, a developer-friendly instance of LearningStudio. It provides a basic campus user interface (UI) with standard features provided by LearningStudio. You can familiarize yourself with the LearningStudio features to give you ideas about what to implement for your project. Also, you can use the APIs to make requests to LearningStudio and then see the results in the UI.
As part of your sandbox, you will be provided multiple user IDs and passwords you can use to experiment with the different experiences for the various user role types. Though it's called Sandbox, this campus is a full production instance of LearningStudio. Whatever you build here will usually work seamlessly on any other institution's instance, and you will see the same performance and behavior in sandbox as you will for institutions.
You can begin developing on the Sandbox Campus anytime:
- Create an account here on the PDN and then click "Build Now" from the homepage.
- Create an App and request access to LearningStudio APIs. Ignore the key displayed on the website.
- Within 5 minutes you will receive an email with your Application ID and sandbox courses and users.
- If you need to create an SSO connection from LearningStudio to your app, request a new SSO Integration. Once complete, we'll email you a LearningStudio-specific URL you can use in your sandbox courses. Here's how to do that
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Martina McBride Launches 'Cozy' Christmas Tour
Martina McBride knows a thing or two about Christmas. Released in 1998, her classic holiday set "White Christmas" has sold 1.6 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and her version of "O Holy Night" has become a standard.
McBride continues to share her love of the holidays with fans on her 16-city "The Joy of Christmas Tour," which kicked off this past Friday in Atlanta.
"I've been looking forward to this tour so much," she told Billboard. "I'm excited to be out there on the road and make this happen. It's such a fun tour, and such a limited time that we get to do it. We've tried to make every aspect of Christmas come to life."
McBride admits she's no stranger to holiday-themed tours, but this one is going to feel a little different. "We've done three years of the Joy of Christmas tour. The last one we did was in 2006, so it has been a while. It's a similar show, but we're doing a smaller production. We're doing a lot of theaters, which I am super excited about because it just feels more like Christmas. It's a lot more intimate, and not as large of a scale. I'm excited about being a little more cozy, and the show is a little more focused."
How does it feel for McBride to know that her music has become such an integral part of the holidays for many of her fans. "When I made the album, I specifically wanted to make it classic and traditional, and make an album that would stand the test of time. I think that's what has made it come back year after year. It's great to be a part of other people's tradition. My dad listened to 'Blue Christmas' year after year, and I remember putting on certain albums when we would open our presents. To think I am in people's houses on Christmas morning is pretty awesome."
The four-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year winner can be heard on the new country edition of the A Very Special Christmas album, as her version of "Please Come Home For Christmas" is featured. She confessed that it brought her full circle. "I was working at Musicland as a teenager when the very first A Very Special Christmas record came out, and we played it in the store. So, to be part of that compilation all these years later is really cool, and it's also special to me because it benefits Special Olympics," she said. A video for the song was filmed in nearby Franklin.
She won't be waiting long to hit the stage once the Christmas tour wraps up, as she will be the opening act for George Strait's "The Cowboy Rides Away" tour, which commences January 18 in Lubbock.
"It's really special. I got to be a part of his show last year, and figured that was it. You get to open for George Strait once in your life, and to be asked back for this tour - you can imagine what that phone call was like. It's such an honor, because he could have chosen anyone in country music. I was so surprised and shocked that he called me. I'm so grateful," she says, also slyly admitting there just might another incentive to opening for the Hall of Famer. "I get to see twenty George Strait shows next year, which is pretty amazing - on top of getting to open for him," she says.
The Joy of Christmas Tour Dates:
Nov. 29: Green Bay, WI (Time Warner Cable Theatre)
Dec. 1: Milwaukee (Milwaukee Theatre)
Dec. 6: Kingston, Ontario (K-Rock Centre)
Dec. 7: Westbury, NY (Theatre at Westbury)
Dec. 8: Williamsport, PA (Community Arts Center)
Dec. 9: Long Branch, NJ (MAC Center at Monmouth)
Dec. 12: Springfield, IL (Prairie Capital Convention Center)
Dec. 13: Pittsburgh (Benedum Center)
Dec. 14: Albany, NY (The Palace Theatre)
Dec. 15: Lowell, MA (Lowell Memorial Auditorium)
Dec. 17: Fayetteville, NC (Cumberland County Auditorium)
Dec. 20: Kansas City, MO (The Midland by AMC)
Dec. 21: Chicago (Chicago Theatre)


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McConnell Takes Time Out from Month-Long Vacation to Jab Trump Again… How Bout You Get Back to Work, Mitch?
Failed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took time out of his month-long vacation to criticize the president.
The majority leader released a statement on Wednesday on the Charlottesville riots and deadly car attack and on the proposed white nationalist rally in Lexington.
McConnell believes the First Amendment only applies to certain Americans.
From the Majority Leader's webpage:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement today condemning hate groups and reports of a rally in Lexington, Kentucky:
"The white supremacist, KKK, and neo-nazi groups who brought hatred and violence to Charlottesville are now planning a rally in Lexington. Their messages of hate and bigotry are not welcome in Kentucky and should not be welcome anywhere in America.
"We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred. There are no good neo-nazis, and those who espouse their views are not supporters of American ideals and freedoms. We all have a responsibility to stand against hate and violence, wherever it raises its evil head."
Background: On Saturday, the Leader condemned the violence and hatred in Charlottesville.
"The hate and bigotry witnessed in Charlottesville does not reflect American values. I wholeheartedly oppose their actions."
The First Amendment applies to all Americans even the Americans you hate with a passion.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
McConnell is on a month-long vacation after failing to repeal and replace Obamacare in the US senate.
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And suddenly, we become something that we call human – a mass that combines body and mind.
A phenomena of our fascinating existence is how we, for the most part, can unconsciously move through space.
Our bodies are a compromise between mobility and stability. We are neither as sturdy as a house, nor as mobile as the wind.
To achieve the integrity and mobility of the human body, our creator thought up something quite special.
The extraordinary tension network of fascia.
To teach yin yoga without looking into the world of fascinating fascia - the yin tissue that is the primary physical focus in yin yoga - is like visiting Paris without viewing the Eiffel Tower.
This article describes the correlation and impact of stress on fascia tissue and how yin yoga is considered an alternative "modern" therapy due to it's physiotherapeutic approach of long held traction to work preventatively against the natural effects of stress on our bodies.
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A blog written in Greece, about Greece, by a Greek who had the good fortune of being brought up between three countries ... Greece, Cyprus and, of course, the UK. Happy reading and please post any enquiries you have about travelling or buying property in Greece...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
A room with a view...
As we are in the midst of summer season, the temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celcius, and my new line of work is going through what I like to think of as the calm after the storm, and not before, I have found one of those rare moments of "me time". The view from my window is a dream as the palm trees waver in the wind and the waves can be heard slowly brushing the coarse sand. Time seems to be standing still, just enough for me to be able to gather my thoughts... a rare event over the past few months. I cannot believe that with all the rooms and hotels in the area filled to the brim, and the beach thriving with tourists, that the only sounds that can be heard are those of a calming nature. Every so often a car passes, and there is a constant hum of Greek music coming from the distance, but other than that the cicadas and the sea are the only noise polluters around.
I think I must have mentioned in one of my posts that I was taking up a new post as a hotel manager. It has been a great experience, and despite the problems we encounter every day, I have to admit that I am loving every minute of it. With less than six hours sleep every day, I still wake up every morning ready and willing to start the day with a smile. I think it might sound a little odd, but I love people. I think I was born with the will to want everybody to be happy, and this job has given me the opportunity. I spend most of my day working in different parts of the business, but my favourite time is the five or ten minutes I have to chat with various guests. Whether it is about the hotel, the service, their lives, the area... everything seems so interesting.
Anyway, duty now calls, and although I don't think I have said enough, I'm sure I will find another five minutes again in the future.
Thanks for your time
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- August 7, 2008 at 5:00 PM
- GreekGoddess said...
Hi Gia! You've been off the blog for a while, you must have been busy! I'm glad you're enjoying your new position and I hope it's the beginning of many new exciting experiences for you! Greece is a great place to find opportunities if you love people and service. What's happening with your school? I hope you are fully enjoying your summer! (Have a swim for me!)
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But now, a few years later, she's just finished a term as president of the International Association of Administrative Professionals, a stint that required her to attend dozens of conferences, workshops, fundraisers and more.
At almost every event, she spoke confidently in front of an audience.
She transformed herself after making a key decision: "A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to step into a leadership role with the association, and if I was going to do that, I needed to work on standing in front of people."
Here's how Enlow conquered her fear:
- Build up nerve by asking questions. Enlow's first step: trying to be the first to ask a question in any meeting or presentation … something that would have turned her bright red in the past. She worked her way up from department meetings to all-staff meetings. "By [asking questions in public], I was actually 'public speaking,'" Enlow says, "although I didn't think of it that way."With practice, her nervousness faded away.
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I'm feeling that I've achieved lots tonight. OK, so I haven't practised and haven't watched Doctor Who (in all fairness he's not in mortal peril and Jo isn't quite yet) but I've cleared up the mess of papers that were on my desk, my chair and my CD boxes, replied to various comments/reviews that I've been meaning to for ages, and updated the Rotaract blog and diary. I just reached the stage tonight where I thought about putting it off till the weekend then realised, given I've been putting it all off for ages, that there's no reason for me not to put it all off for ages.
I've also renewed my domain name - I've had it for nearly four years now, wow! Although Phil did decide to send the invoice to dad for some inexplicable reason.
Work is hideous. I thought today that I was actually doing quite well, so took my whole hour for lunch (rather than the half hour I'd taken the rest of the week). But over lunch someone decided to suddenly ask for a whole load of work. And by ask I mean tell. So now I'm ridiculously busy and am getting up early tomorrow to go in early.
I'm so looking forward to my holiday (no work for a week!). I'm quite enjoying that it's so much simpler, being in this country. I booked my B&B last week. At some point next week I ought to pack (which involves a mountaineering expedition under my bed to find my sandals for the black tie ball about the time Doctor Who debuts).
I have finally seen the last four episodes of Bugs. I signed up to one of those DVD rental things that give you a free trial for a month - so I must cancel it before Easter. I rang play.com last week and they are happy to replace my non-working DVD, I just have to send the whole thing back to them. Unless the company that make them will send me a new DVD. I just have to remember to ring them. And the student loans company who don't quite seem to have managed to send one of my deferment letters.
I got quite excited in Bugs, when in the second-to-last episode we saw Windows 98! In 800x600 resolution! It looked so old - except for the white flatscreen monitors. There was a particularly surreal part where Adam asks Alex what a gizmo is. She tells him it's an EMP generator. Which is fine except it's quite obviously a sonic screwdriver. It looks like one, Adam uses it like one.
And now I really must go to bed and try to finish the fourth introduction in my book (it's a good book, except the introductions are really dryly written).
I'm so nearly done with watching Bugs, I'm down to the last DVD. Except that the last DVD won't play. But that's ok, because Play.com have a returns policy. So I emailed them and got an auto-reply that said they aim to reply within 24 hours. Four days later, I'm still waiting. I'm not impressed.
Also, I think I have flu. Obviously, having had it twice already, and a flu jab, and drinking lots of orange juice i no defense. My room's a mess and I have a whole load of things that need doing, and no energy to do them. And no Bugs to watch either.
As I had my computer backing up my entire hard drive this weekend, I sat down and managed to get from halfway through series 2 of Bugs to halfway through series 3. Somewhere early on in there were two more Bill guest stars. Clara Salaman (Claire Stanton) was a good guy with shorter hair. George Rossi (Duncan Lennox) I was amused to see was a bad guy with a beard. I think he was supposed to be Scandanavian, but obviously in the Sean Connery style (ie with a Scottish accent).
I'm really enjoying series 3, now they're letting the characters have lives in between foiling bad guys. Not that series 1 and 2 weren't bad, but they do get a bit samey, and making them semi-official (with an office that's not Ros's flat), introducing two new characters and giving them lives was a good way to do it. I think that now he's got something interesting to do, Jesse Birdsall's acting has improved. Either that or I've just watching so many I've got immune to it.
There's nothing quite like watching ~10 episodes in a weekend to show how samey a lot of it is, though. For Our Heroes(TM) the plan is:
1) bug it
2) blow it up
The bad guys have obviously never read the Evil Overlord handbook, so explain their evil plans to Get Rich Quick(TM) before trapping the good guys with a bomb of some description that they can either stop within 1 second of it blowing up, or manage to get just far enough away that they're thrown to the ground but not blown up. It's not surprising it got taken off when the Real IRA set bombs off.
I reckon that so far the Stephen Gallagher episodes are the best. Interestingly, the guys who created Smallville (Alfred Gough and Miles Millar) have written at least two episodes.
The technology has definitely moved on fast. In the first series everything was on floppy disks. By the second we're on the gold writeable CDs. Although no matter how far we get, their monitors still look ancient. The first episode of the third they all have mobiles, although they refer to them as cellphones - which is slightly less annoying than it was in The Avengers because Bugs is done in an American style: 50 mins long and opening credits five minutes in. It's quite cool to see those big mobiles - I wish they were still that size, I hate that they're small. And only partly because they don't fit into my rabbit.
I can tell winter 96/97 was a cold winter because not only have we seen snow in the third series, but not even their makeup has been enough to tell that they're really cold at times. I'm not surprised Craig McLachlan wanted to leave after that!
Recently, Nilmandra had a post about characterisation, and in the comments I talked about liking characters I want to grow up to be, or at least some aspect of their personalities I'd like to have. I've also talked with Sel on various occasions about characters we want to grow up to be. So I thought I'd list some.
Ros Henderson (Bugs) - Quite aside from the fact that she was played by Jaye Griffiths, who I loved in The Bill (which was the whole reason I started watching Bugs in the first place). Ros is really intelligent - there's nothing she can't do with computers and gizmos. If there's something electronic you need doing, she's made a gizmo to do it. She also knows a lot of science, which isn't a surprise. She's also good as a spy-type, not easily scared, can think on her feet, and can fight if she needs to (even if she's not quite as good as the boys).
Ace (Doctor Who) - Ace was the person I wanted to grow up to be when I was little. I'm still not sure I don't. She had that whole cool-thing going on where she didn't like school and was a bit of a rebel. But she was good at chemistry (especially when it came to explosions). She was also a useful person - she made friends easily (it seems to be a bit of a pre-requisite in a companion, or perhaps it's just spending all that time with only The Doctor for company), she could go and investigate stuff on her own and she wasn't easily frightened.
I've just recently listened to Big Finish's Live 34, in which Ace seems to be about my age. It's interesting that they've had her growing up, so she's less of a rebel, more independent when it comes to being someone The Doctor can rely on to go off on her own and do something useful (even if she hasn't quite lost her taste for explosions). Even if I'm not quite sure I want to be the Ace from the TV series when I grow up, I definitely want to be the Big Finish's version.
CJ Cregg (The West Wing) - She's the character everyone loves and it's not hard to see why. I'm finding hard to say why, though. She's good in a crisis, always has a witty put-down, has a good relationship with the press and other important people, is really intelligent about lots of things, especially political stuff. She also really cares about people both her friends and people that are affected by decisions the president makes. But she's also human - I really like the old days when she was still Press Secretary and she and Carol used to discuss how good-looking any man that had a meeting with her was.
Beth March (Little Women) - I think it was on the BBC's Big Read that I heard it said that everyone's favourite character from Little Women was Jo. That would be everyone except for me. As much as I loved Jo and her tomboyish ways, I liked Beth more. Beth was almost too-good-to-be-true perfect - she always put others before herself. Not that the other girls didn't, but sometimes they needed to be prodded into it. Beth always did it off her own bat.
Emma Peel (The Avengers) - I saw a quote on a website somewhere saying that one of the reasons The Avengers was so successful was that all the blokes wanted Peel and wanted to be Steed, and all the women wanted Steed and wanted to be Peel. Emma Peel kicks arse. She can hold her own in a fight and when it comes to brains she's really clever. She's always ready with a witty comeback and she's seriously not easily scared.
There are probably others that I've forgotten. But who do you want to be when you grow up*?
* Actual growing up not required
I feel like I've done nothing this week and still not had any time left. And since I haven't written much in here this week, I thought I'd talk about what I've been up to this week.
Tuesday we had a film night, which I must write up for the Wallingford Rotaract blog. One of our members has a widescreen TV with surround sound, and as they got me 2001 on DVD at the end of my year as president, it seemed like a good place to watch it. The problem is convincing the rest of the members that! In the end we watched Galaxy Quest. Of the five of us there, one hadn't seen it, the rest of us had but were happy to watch it again. It just never gets less funny, and every time I watch it I spot more things that are based off other sci-fi and other things I've missed. It's such a good film.
I also wrote 25 drabbles in four days, which is a hard way to write 2500 words. Although it helped that work wasn't that busy at the start of this week. I also wrote 25 different characters, which wasn't how I planned it to start with, but I quite enjoyed writing characters I'd never written before. I also really enjoyed writing LOTR again. I'd forgotten how much canon I'd forgotten as well. I've actually been catching up on my LOTR reading now, and reading the Atlantis in between for a break. A lot of the stuff I've been catching up on is quite intense, so a bit of crack!fic is always good for a change. I'd also forgotten how much I liked writing drabbles, so I will have to make more of an effort to write some more - I have some ideas on that front.
I've been trying to get through my Bugs DVDs too. The one I watched last night was the first to feature a future The Bill regular as a guest star, in this case Terry, although he only had two lines.
On a similar note, this weeks The Avengers had Peter Cushing in it. Despite some really ridiculous plot holes it was still an enjoyable episode. The one thing that got me was Emma Peel referring to her bag as her purse. I know, from surfing round, that the only reason these got made was because they were able to sell them to America in advance. I still don't think that excuses the Americanisms though, especially when they go to so much trouble to make it very British.
I've been listening to the podcasts Wil Wheaton's been doing this week. They've been surprisingly listenable. I say surprisingly because often I can only take so much of constant American accents, depending on the accent. The ten minute ones I've barely noticed, but today's (technically yesterday's) was 73 minutes. I did have to stop near the end to watch My Family (just started watching it after only previously seeing bits - it's very funny) but I think it only got grating after that, and I had reminded myself what no accent at all sounds like (relatively speaking, of course.
At some point, when I get round to it, I want to write up the character-related post that's been going round my head. I also need to talk about LOTR for b2mem. But World Rotaract Week starts on Sunday, so I'll be blogging about what we're going to be up to, and talking lots about Rotaract. Really, you'll be sick of it. Unless you're 18-30, in which case you should be joining it. If I get to it between breakfasts on Sunday I'll tell you why, otherwise it'll probably be Monday.
I put the next episode of Bugs on tonight and there was Peter Woodward! I'm sure he had less hair in Crusade and Atlantis, but he's bald in all three. I spent the episode thinking he really does have the voice to be playing an ordinary business man-type. And, oh, look, he's a bad guy. That came as a real shocker.
The strangest thing in it was their interpretation of internet and email, which is what you'd expect from a time when it's all a bit new. Which in 1996, it wasn't, not really. It was just a really, really weird email system that was sort of like instant messenger but using all the wrong words and just everything was wrong. They totally didn't anticipate spam though 🙂
I'm 4 episodes into series 2 at the moment, and while each episode is fine (although the one before last had lots of bugs in it and I really could have done with not being eating at the time) the overall arc is boring me already. Series 1 had tag scenes at the end that were just excruciating. Series 2 has a bad guy who is supposedly behind all the other bad guys this series. I can't remember the whos, whys or wherefores and really don't care.
Bring on series 3 - or more to the point series 4 as that's the one that got me into the fandom in the first place.
In the last few days I've read three books:
Two of them were Cheerleaders ones - good for if you don't have a brain. One of them I think I've read before. It was still mostly about the love lifes, though, so pretty standard stuff. The other I quite enjoyed because it was a bit different - about the whole team and how they're affected by what's going on around them. It was a bit quickly solved, though, despite being a thicker book than the other one.
The third book I raced through too: Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. I've been reading his blog for a while, so it was interesting to get all sorts of backstory into what was going on in his life. He is a good writer and very easy to read. His other book's on my amazon wishlist now!
Also, a writing update! One day before deadline, I have posted by entry to the Lost City Found Free Your Mind challenge: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and is a Jack/Elizabeth Atlantis non-AU fic. Yes, really.
In theory, I should manage 20,000 words by the end of the year, no problem. Specially as my Remix fic is now in beta.
I am working on something for Back to Middle-earth month, too. What I mainly meant to do was catch up on my LOTR-related reading, but got entirely sidetracked by The Avengers. Which is too full of Steed & Peel getting together for my liking. I have been inspired to write some LOTR though! So expect some later this month.
In entirely unrelated events, in the latest episode of Bugs they had a timer set on releasing what were essentially killer beetles. Given all the high-tech stuff they had in it (including their first CD-R), it was really strange that they were ordinary kitchen timers. Hmm.
Reading my height in books: an update
I've just finished British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide. I couldn't remember why I'd put it on my Amazon wish list, but bought it anyway. I discovered why, when I read the chapter list, and discovered the Blakes 7 chapter author. There were some interesting ideas in it that I hadn't considered before.
Overall I enjoyed it. I really liked the historical aspects of the Quatermass chapter. The nuclear war one is really depressing, though. I'm not entirely convinced by the parallels in the Sapphire and Steel chapter. But as I've not seen it and know very little about the state of the country & politics around 1979 I can't really comment. The only chapter I really disagreed with was the Red Dwarf one. The author talked about how it relates to gender and race. I like it because it's funny, so am admittedly uninteresting in taking it any deeper. But she did go on about the Cat acting the way he does because it's alluding to black Americans. And there was me thinking it was a parody of a cat.
Easter: I had a surf round last night at the Lake District. Which looked vaguely interesting until there was a mention of Hadrian's Wall being not far away. So I'm so going. As my last holidays were in America and Australia I had entirely forgotten the whole point of holidays is castles and bookshops. Although I did get unreasonably excited at going to a Barnes and Noble in America. I've not booked for Conference yet, and my boss was off so I couldn't book any time off. I did establish that because he has holiday I can't do the Lake District and then recover(!) at Conference, so I'll be doing Conference, then the Lake District. I'm amazed it's only a couple of hours from Birmingham, though, because it's a long way North.
Bugs: I sat down to watch Bugs with dinner and all of a sudden there was Robbie! (as in DI Robbie Ross from Taggart). Sounding decidedly un-Scottish, but very cool anyway. Possibly some other stuff happened but frankly who cares. It's Robbie.
And thingy, whatshisname from Yes Minister was on The Avengers last night, looking pretty much exactly the same.
I remember Bugs being really cutting edge at the time - it was the first time I'd seen a writeable CD. It was made in 1995-99 and set in the near future. So their various gadgets and gizmos still look pretty cool. It's the computers that really date it. One of the characters didn't know what a mouse was (at the time, it was funny but not so unusual). But one thing really got me with the third episode. A guy has written a top program for flying planes, that incidentally, can be controlled from elsewhere with a computer (and a mouse). It fits on a floppy. In fact he pulled a copy from a pile of floppies - I don't remember the last time I saw that many, never mind used one!
Tonight's Olympics were a bit boring, partly because they gave us a few results, showed us the men's skating, then showed some skiing, luge and curling - the results of which they'd previous told us! The commentators annoyed me a bit in the skating as well by continually repeating what their eight required elements are - despite having gone through it at the beginning. Even though it was just the short program it basically ended up being who had screwed up least.
I had a sudden fright when I looked at the calendar today and realised that the Jack/Liz fic is due in two weeks. And as I'm going to the Rotary District Conference in the middle of March, my Remix fic is actually going to be due in four weeks. Um. It has nine paragraphs. So now I'm off to force myself to write some more even though I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing with it.
I feel as if I've been good today because I've tidied and cleaned my room. I bought some more CD boxes and transferred some of my CDs into them from DVD boxes. And put some DVDs into those boxes. So now not only do I have space for all my DVDs, I even have room for more! I really don't have space for any more books, though.
I watched a bit of the Olympics today. It's the only time you can actually see any skating any more. They cut down so much on the BBC that it took a couple of years to notice they'd stopped showing it at all. It's also an opportunity to watch sports you don't usually see. Like Luge - otherwise known as throwing yourself down an icy track on a tea tray. It was interesting to see a view of it from the competitor - it looked scary. I'm looking forward to the Skeleton - throw yourself down an icy track on a tea tray with your chin just above the ground. I'm looking forward to seeing some skiing as well, which mum used to watch regularly when I was little. It was years before I found out the program was called Ski Sunday, though, because she called it Ski Splats.
I actually started on my Bugs DVDs last night. I bought myself a box set of all of them, which is 40 episodes. It was my first fandom and I remember watching it because Jaye Griffiths had just left The Bill when it started. I loved it at the time (although I wasn't entirely convinced by season 4) but I was a bit hesitant about rewatching in case it didn't live up to what I remembered (which is very little). I needn't have worried because I'm loving it just as much, ten years later.
Tomorrow I will do some writing. Although I found a Kakuro book, so I'm distracted with that and the Hanjie, now I've finished the last Sudoku in the Christmas G2 puzzles.
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Mongolia, with a population of only 2.8 million, has seen massive GDP growth in the past decade by exporting its vast mineral resources to China. However, having an economy so closely linked to commodity prices can cause huge issues during periods of lower demand. Falling mineral demand from China combined with a debt crisis has created a major economic slowdown with GDP now forecasted to stagnate in 2017, down from explosive growth of 17% in 2011.[1]
However, there is some good news. Analysts at IRENA have identified that beyond Mongolia's massive deposits of coal, copper, and gold; the country is well positioned to one day export huge amounts of renewable energy to its neighbors[2]. The Gobi Desert has excellent wind and solar potential, with total theoretical production being as high as 15,000 terawatt-hours per year with peak production being 2.6 terawatts.[3] Mongolia's current share of renewable generation capacity is only 7%, but the country has set policy to have 20% of capacity renewable by 2023, and 30% by 2030.[4] This natural potential along with aggressive government support may shape Mongolia from being a net power importer to a regional exporter in the coming decades.
Mongolia's challenge is to balance its green ambitions with the reality of its current economic slowdown. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is infamous for high levels of smog during winter, when many Ger dwelling citizens burn coal and wood in to stay warm.[5] The World Bank is implementing a project aimed at replacing existing Ger stoves with cleaner-burning, efficient systems.[6] The World Bank and the government of Mongolia have recently completed a campaign[7] to provide consumer scale solar power to the over 100,000 nomadic households. Projects such as these immediately change lives.
The newly elected government formed by the Mongolian People's Party is attempting to address a massive budget deficit (20% of GDP) caused by falling commodity prices. [8] In a severe budgetary crisis, hard decisions need to be made. While investing in renewable energy is important from an economic and environmental perspective, projects that improve near-term quality of life need to take priority. In the current economic environment, the most important factor for boosting Mongolia's clean energy production is, ironically, the recovery of dirty industries such as coal and copper mining.
[1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/mongolia
[2] https://www.export.gov/article?id=Mongolia-Renewable-Energy
[3] http://www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA_RRA_Mongolia_2016.pdf
[4] http://www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA_RRA_Mongolia_2016.pdf
[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mongolia-pollution-idUSKBN15M1KQ
[6] http://projects.worldbank.org/P122320/ulaanbaatar-clean-air-project?lang=en&tab=overview
[7] http://www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA_RRA_Mongolia_2016.pdf
[8] http://www.reuters.com/article/mongolia-economy-deficit-idUSL3N1B52C1


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Thursday, March 27, 2014
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I agree with you - I do not adhere to the white after labor day or before Easter! These are so great, i'll have to try the J.Crew white jeans.ReplyDelete
I love wearing white jeans. Combined with navy blazer looks definiely very good!ReplyDelete
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Big Scare
20 comments:
- the Hansels said...
- July 27, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Deb and Josh,
I am so sorry to hear of Noah's hospital stay. I'm sure that was a terrifying experience. It sounds like he is in very good hands. I'm glad that both of you can stay nearby, but get some much-needed rest. Hopefully the doctors will find a solution to Noah's GI problems that will give all of you some relief. Your family is in our daily prayers. Take care.
Love, Kathy H.
- July 27, 2008 at 11:30 PM
You all are in our constant thoughts and prayers. God bless.
The Kinzingers
- July 28, 2008 at 7:07 AM
Praying for God's grace, mercy and peace to cover all three of you. Linda
- July 28, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- Fern said...
Praying for you all and looking forward to more updates about Noah getting back to his regular self!
- July 28, 2008 at 8:03 AM
We are so relieved to hear Noah is getting better.God hears our prayers... all of you are in our thoughts and prayers as God continues to lay His healing hand on Noah.Try to get some rest,God will take care of the rest. Love you
- July 28, 2008 at 8:05 AM
- Ron said...
And the prayers continue from Cleveland.
- July 28, 2008 at 8:34 AM
I do not personally know you, but I am praying for your family as well. When our little one was in the hospital we were able to stay at Ronald McDonald House... It was wonderful there. The rooms were comfy, home cooked meals in the evenings, and other parents in similar situations as we were could chat and support one another. The room was very cheap as well. Check with the social services people at the hospital to see if they have one there.
Hang in there... I will continue to pray.
Marie LaMar
- July 28, 2008 at 8:37 AM
- The Wagners said...
We're always praying for you guys and think of you often. Sending much love your way...
- July 28, 2008 at 8:40 AM
- Jodie Allen said...
the allen family is praying...
- July 28, 2008 at 8:40 AM
- erin said...
Praise God that Noah is doing so much better. I can't imagine the scare. Love you guys and we'll keep praying!
- July 28, 2008 at 8:58 AM
You, Josh and Noah are in our prayers!
- July 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Jim Biggs said...
I cannot imagine what you are going through. My boys and I pray for Noah every night.
Jim Biggs
- July 28, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- chri said...
Dear Deb and Josh,
I am glad to hear Noah is doing better, now, and I am sure they will watch him closely in the ICU...may your week show improvement every day with Noah. I am praying for each of you, and may you feel God holding you as you take each day in stride. Thinking of you,
- July 28, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- Dana said...
How terrifying! I'm so glad to hear that he's doing better, though. Sounds like the nurses are really good.
Take care and keep us all posted. Will be praying hard for you, Josh, and Noah.
- July 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Bill and Melodie said...
I am praying for your sweet boy. I met a friend of yours last week in Guatemala, Katie Mohr...
She is so sweet. I must get to T-town someday and meet you!
Melodie Schroder
- July 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I can't imagine your terror. Know that I am praying for you, Josh, and especially Noah as you wait for God's perfect timing and plan to ufold...no easy thing to do as you travel each day to the hospital ICU! May God bless your little boy with a swift recovery and bless his doctors with supernatural wisdom and discernment...and you and Josh with His peace.
- July 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Lance and Heather said...
wow. i can't imagine how scared you must have felt. I am so glad that he is breathing on his own and in a place where he can be closely monitored. i am not sure how you guys do it. as always, we are praying and thinking about you 3 often!!
- July 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM
- Rambling Round said...
Sorry to hear that Noah got so ill. We have done the crashing on the waiting room floor...no fun and no rest! You are wise to sleep elsewhere.
- July 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Josh, Deb,
know that Noah & your family are in my prayers...
matt ryan
- July 28, 2008 at 5:44 PM


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Windows 10 S was unveiled by Microsoft back in May 2017. Ever since then, the thin client version of Windows 10 has been met with mixed reception. This is mostly because of the restrictions it puts on anyone trying to use traditional Windows programs not found on the Windows store.
Instead of allowing users to download and install whatever programs they feel like, Windows 10 S will only allow apps from the Windows 10 Store to be installed. Now, obviously traditional PC users and enthusiasts don't really like this approach, but it actually makes sense for the right device and user – like the Microsoft Surface Go. That's not to mention all the obvious security benefits that this approach brings.
And, now that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has been released, Windows 10 S users have access to a ton of new features like Timeline and Focus Assist that'll help anyone trying to get some work done on their device. That's not to mention all the new features in the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the next major Windows 10 revision – including a new 'Your Phone' app, which will let users interact with their phones on their Windows devices, without complicated software.
For more information on everything that Windows 10 S is capable of, keep this page bookmarked, as we'll update it with any new information that comes our way.
Cut to the chase
- What is it? Windows 10 without x86 and x64 apps
- When is it out? Available now
- What will it cost? Free to all schools using Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 S release date
Windows 10 S was originally released on May 2, 2017, with devices using the OS releasing on the same day, and other devices, like the Surface Laptop, came out in the following months. And, now that Windows 10 S Mode is available, making lower-end devices far more flexible, we could be seeing many more devices using Windows 10 S in the near future.
Microsoft will soon let users switch out of S Mode through a simple UI switch, but that's not quite here yet. If you're looking for a quick and easy way out of S Mode, all you need to do is head to the Windows Store on your device and search for 'switch out of S Mode'. As for when the switch will get implemented, we might see it show up when the Windows 10 October 2018 Update goes live next month.
Now, as for the reveal of Windows 10 S itself – Microsoft's event invitation was titled '#MicrosoftEDU', making no misgivings about its aims with the new OS. While Windows 10 S is not for individual sale, it is issued to IT administrators in education as well as laptops found in stores and online.
It's no coincidence that Windows 10 S is focused on the education sector, where Google's Chromebooks are experiencing outlandish success.
Windows 10 S price
Windows 10 S doesn't cost a dime. Well, not to schools sporting Windows 10 Pro already, that is. The cost of the OS is, more than likely, being subsidized by hardware makers in its pricing albeit for far less than Windows 10 proper, if not for free.
In short, you won't be paying for Windows 10 S so as much as you'll pay for the hardware running it (with, again, whatever Microsoft's charging its partners, if anything, to license the software baked in that price somehow, too).
Save for the new Surface Laptop, laptops running Windows 10 S start at $189 (about £146, AU$251) and cap out at around $299 (about £239, AU$396). PC makers across the board, including Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and Lenovo, have all launched Windows 10 S-powered notebooks at this time.
Premium category laptops were said to be joining the Windows 10 S family as well, but aside from Microsoft's own Surface Laptop, they've been few and far between up to this point – save for Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 laptops, like the Asus NovaGo and HP Envy x2.
Now that Microsoft is aiming to make Windows 10 S Mode a thing within Windows 10 proper, though, we could start seeing additional software costs – but we haven't seen much evidence of this happening yet. We'll know when the switch goes live in 2019.
Though Windows 10 Home users will be exempt from this fee, Pro users will allegedly have to shell out $49 to exit Windows 10 S Mode. That said, now that Windows 10 S Mode is live, we haven't actually seen Microsoft actually charging to exit out of it. Just note that right now it's only one-way. You'll have to reinstall the OS to go back to S Mode.
What is Windows 10 S?
Microsoft intends Windows 10 S to serve as a lightweight, more secure version fo Windows 10 for lower-end devices. While in "S Mode," Windows 10 will only support apps that are downloaded from the Windows Store.
This talk of a version of Windows that can only download Microsoft-approved apps is familiar, isn't it? Microsoft believes it has mastered this approach since the turbulent days of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 with Bing – both of which tried to position Microsoft as the sole provider of apps through curation.
The good news is that this allows for a startup time of under 5 seconds as opposed to the 30 – 40 second startup time of Windows 10 Pro. Not only that, but configuring settings (such as Wi-Fi, webcam, etc.) across an entire classroom of students is as easy as inserting a USB stick in each of their laptops.
Being in competition with Google's Chrome OS, Microsoft has, of course, also positioned Windows 10 S as a more secure PC operating system. However, its resilience to viruses is mostly a side-effect of the inability to install apps not approved by Microsoft. Historically, Windows viruses have tended to erupt from untrustworthy internet downloads.
Should you find a must-have app that isn't available in the Microsoft Store in Windows 10 S you can switch from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Home or Pro by just going to the Windows Store and searching for "switch out of S Mode". Microsoft used to charge a fee for this service, but now it's free for everyone.
More recently, Microsoft has also made it possible for Windows 10 Pro Upgraders to move back down to Windows 10 S – and soon it will work the other way around, as well. And, now that Microsoft is apparently working on Windows 10 Lean Mode, which will be even more lightweight and locked down you won't need to worry about the version of Windows 10 you install on that shiny new Surface Laptop, because you'll be able to move back and forth whatever you decide.
That said, what can you expect to see included in devices running Windows 10 S? Well, the Edge browser, OneNote and Windows Ink are all givens. The standard Movies and Groove Music apps, as well as Maps and Mail and Calendar are shoo-ins, too.
Of course, we won't see x86/x64 program support on a Windows 10 cloud operating system until 2019 when the aforementioned Polaris is expected to touch down and implement a 'virtualization container' for each of your favorite legacy applications. That means that, yes, should everything work out perfectly, there will be a Windows 10 cloud OS that can emulate the .exe's of the past.
Despite its constraints, Windows 10 S still features File Explorer, and although many of the laptops that come with the lightweight OS pre-installed may ship with smaller capacity SSDs, Microsoft's forthcoming introduction of OneDrive Files On-Demand will make it so files can be stored in the cloud, but still viewed the same way as locally stored content.
All things considered, there are still questions looming around in regard to the viability of Windows 10 S. Fortunately, as new developments emerge to (hopefully) address those criticisms, you can count on us to cover them right here on this page.
Bill Thomas and Gabe Carey have also contributed to this article.
This article was originally posted on techradar.com