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Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) laid off 9% of its workforce. CEO Elon Musk said the 3,500 or so jobs did not affect employees producing the company's cars, particularly the anticipated but late Model 3. The move was seen as an action to push Tesla toward profitability. Investors worry that Tesla does not have enough money to make it through the end of the year, without raising more. In many circumstances, money losing companies which announce layoffs do them in tranches. If Tesla's financial predicament becomes more difficult, it may have to contemplate more downsizing
Musk recently warded off an attempt to split his chairman's role from that of the CEO. Musk argued there is nothing wrong with being both. The majority of shareholders agreed, although some of the largest ones objected. The vote of confidence does not take Musk off the hook. He says he can produce 5,000 Model 3 vehicles a week. The would may dampen the current shareholder revolt. However, he may not reach the number. After that, there will be pressure to move toward 10,000 a week
Given Tesla's growing need for fixed assets which include factory installations, and vehicle distribution, Musk cannot cut costs in these areas, which represent a very large part of the company's expenses. He still has nearly 35,000 workers. It is hard to say how many of those are "dispensable". At most companies, the number is measured by desperation.
Musk tweeted his memo to employees. Among the details were that there were some "duplication of roles", and job functions which were "difficult to justify". Duplication can be replaced with essential jobs which are too expensive. If Tesla's financial fortunes continue downward, layoffs are not over.
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) shares lost about 1.2% last week and established the company as the worst performer among the Dow equities for the year to date.So far in 2018 the shares have lost a fraction over 20.2%.
The second-worst Dow stock so far this year is The Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), down 16%; followed by Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), down 14.6%; 3M Company (NYSE: MMM), down 12.3%; and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), down 11.2%. The 30 Dow stocks are evenly split with year-to-date winners and losers each numbering 15.
The Dow dropped almost 118 points over the course of the last week to close at 24,635.21, down about 0.5%. For the year to date the consumer staples sector has dropped about 13.5%, worst among the 10 market sectors.
The Dow added more than 680 points over the course of the past week to close at 25,316.53, up nearly 2.8%. For the year to date the consumer staples sector has dropped about 11.5%, worst among the 10 market sectors.
The big news from GE this week was a Friday announcement that the company would pay its $0.48 per share dividend for the second quarter. At Friday's closing price the dividend is producing a yield of 3.48% to shareholders, enough to overcome the many issues the company faces.
Activist investor Nelson Peltz said last week than when GE CEO John Flannery says that "everything is on the table" then investors should take him seriously. The remark was widely interpreted to mean that Peltz believes a breakup of GE is possible. Peltz's Trian Fund Management firm has a seat on GE's board.
Finally, GE said Friday that two of its business units are jointly starting a company called AiRXOS to provide management and control services for drones. By itself the startup is unlikely to turn GE's fortunes around, but it does indicate some signs of life.
GE stock closed at $13.93 on Friday, up nearly 1.1% for the day in a 52-week range of $12.73 to $29.47. The 12-month consensus price target on the stock is $17.50 and the forward price-earnings ratio is 13.27
Apple has 16 new shows in the works, comparable to Netflix in 2013 (its first year of original programming) when it had released 13 originals.
We expect Apple to spend $900M on video content in 2018, growing to $4.2B by 2022.
Original video content is defensible and adds to Apple's Services segment.
We believe Apple's investment paradigm is shifting, centered around the Services segment. In CY18, Services should account for 14% of revenue, growing to 20% by CY23. Content is an emerging part of the Services pillar, as evidenced by the success of Apple Music, now with over 50M paying subs. Original video content is a new category for Apple and represents optionality to Services revenue growth and is not yet reflected in the value of AAPL shares.
Framing up the opportunity. While off to a disappointing start, (Carpool Karaoke and Planet of the Apps), we believe Apple is making measurable progress in original video content that will begin to contribute to Services growth starting in 2019 or 2020. Content could ultimately account for $10-$15B in annual revenue (Netflix will do $16B in 2018) and 3-5% of overall Apple revenue.
Key content hires. At the helm of the company's content efforts are Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, who Apple hired away from Sony in 2017. Erlicht and Van Amburg ran Sony's primetime series division since 2005. They will report directly to Eddie Cue, who runs Apple's Services business. Apple has also hired an array of industry veterans from a range of backgrounds including streaming platforms like Hulu and Amazon Studios, and mainstay media companies like WGN America and Legendary Entertainment.
Apple's content pipeline:
Amazing Stories – Apple plans to spend ~$5M per episode on a 10 part sci-fi/horror series originally created by Steven Spielberg in 1985. Source
Are You Sleeping – A thriller drama series based on true crime novel by Kathleen Barber. Source
Central Park – Comedy that tells the story of how a family of caretakers living in Central Park ends up saving the park & the world. Source
Dickinson – Documentary about the early life of poet Emily Dickinson starring Hailee Steinfeld. Source
Home – Will offer viewers a "never-before-seen look inside the world's most extraordinary homes" and the minds of the people who created them. Source
See – Straight-to-series epic world-building drama set in the future. Source
Untitled Damien Chazelle Project – Details of the series' plot are under wraps. This project will be the first time Chazelle has written and directed every episode of a series. Source
Untitled Kristen Wiig Project – Comedy series produced by Reese Witherspoon, inspired by Curtis Sittenfeld's upcoming short story collection "You Think It, I'll Say It." Source
Untitled M. Night Shyamalan Project – Straight-to-series psychological thriller. Source
Untitled Morning Show – Morning show drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Source
Untitled Ronald D. Moore Project – Ronald D. Moore, developer of Battlestar Galactica, explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. Source
Swagger – Profile on the early life and career of NBA star Kevin Durant. Source
Little America – Based on a series of true stories featured in Epic Magazine that paint a portrait of America's immigrants. Source
Foundation – Based on Isaac Asimov's iconic science fiction novels published between 1942-1993. Source
Shantaram – Drama series based on "Shantaram," a 2003 novel about a man who escaped an Australian prison only to hide out in the slums of Bombay. Source
Little Voices – Tells the story of finding authenticity in the crowded and diverse New York musical landscape. Source
Apple is about 5 years behind. At first glance, it appears Netflix's lead in original content is insurmountable. Netflix will end 2018 with close to 1,000 original titles and spend an estimated $3.5 billion on new titles this year. Keep in mind that almost half of that content is outside of the U.S. That compares to Apple, which has 2 titles out today and another 16 in the works (to be released in 2019 at the earliest), expecting to spend about $900 million this year. However, history is on Apple's side, given that just five years ago Netflix had 13 original titles including the debut season of House of Cards. In other words, with the right resources, which Apple has, Apple's original content titles can ramp from just under two dozen to potentially over one hundred. We note that Apple has stated they are focused on quality vs. quantity.
Apple's Advantage. It's an understatement to say that the video streaming landscape is competitive. Apple, once again, is late to the game but has an opportunity to change the game. Specifically, Apple can change the game around content streaming customer acquisition. Just like Netflix, HBO, and Hulu, Apple's stories and production quality are first class. What separates Apple is the company's access to 1.3B active devices through which they can subtly encourage adoption. Apple Music's market share gains over the past two years are a testimony to the power of coupling Services with widely adopted hardware. An unrelated advantage is Apple's brand, which, at its core, represents quality and attention to detail, and should translate into favorable initial adoption.
Apple Music's market share gains over the past two years are a testimony to the power of coupling Services with widely adopted hardware.
Content is an emerging area of investment. It's no secret that original content will be an emerging area of investment for Apple in order to boost the increasingly important Services revenue line. The good news is that cord cutting is undeniable and consumers are now paying for multiple monthly streaming services. Multiple streaming services means there will be a handful of content provider winners. We think that over the next 5 years Apple will ramp its original content investment from an estimated $900m this year to an estimated $4.2B in 2022.
How will Apple's video content be distributed? Consuming video on Apple devices is confusing. Between the iTunes Store, Music, TV, Podcasts, Books, and News apps, it is unclear where to discover and consume Apple's video content. This presents an issue as they attempt to bolster content offerings going forward. While it is unclear how the video streaming service will be branded and delivered, we expect the iTunes Store to fade away, folding its content into the existing Music, TV, Books, and Podcasts apps.
Disclaimer: We actively write about the themes in which we invest: virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics. From time to time, we will write about companies that are in our portfolio. Content on this site including opinions on specific themes in technology, market estimates, and estimates and commentary regarding publicly traded or private companies is not intended for use in making investment decisions. We hold no obligation to update any of our projections. We express no warranties about any estimates or opinions we make.
Cisco held its annual customer event this week in Orlando, Florida, and invited the industry analysts to attend. CEO Chuck Robbins highlighted the company's commitment to security in his CiscoLive keynote, while other executives elaborated on more security product and services details.
After a few days of meetings, I believe Cisco's cybersecurity strategy focuses on:
Product integration. Cisco wants a common cybersecurity product architecture that spans endpoints, networks, data centers, and the public cloud, that can service most of its customers cybersecurity technology needs. As a result, Cisco is busy integrating products and services such as AMP, Umbrella, Firepower, Talos, etc. Cisco demonstrated its platform and discussed its future roadmap in detail.
Openness and programmability. Beyond gluing its own products together, Cisco's cybersecurity platform is built with connectors and APIs for third-party integration and programmability. To illustrate its technology alliance partner ecosystem, Cisco crowed about dozens of partners, including Anomali, IBM, LogRhythm, and McAfee. Cisco's intent-based networking (IBN) programmability also extends to security for service providers, taking advantage of APIs and building value-added services on top of Cisco security tools.
A foundation of threat intelligence. CiscoLive started last Sunday with a day-long session by the Talos team on security research and threat intelligence. Beyond the data, the Cisco team focused on teaching customers how to operationalize threat intelligence for threat detection, hunting, and risk management. Clearly, Cisco believes that Talos threat intelligence can give the company a strategic advantage versus narrowband security vendors, so it is anchoring all security products with Talos threat feeds. The company is also bolstering market education to get the Talos word out more broadly.
Comprehensive cloud security. Cisco wants customers to know that it can protect workloads in the public cloud with a one-two punch of Tetration and StealthWatch cloud. Beyond IaaS and PaaS, Cisco also promoted its CloudLock CASB product for SaaS management and data protection. Finally, Cisco is offering several "security from the cloud" services, such as Umbrella and email security to safeguard mobile workers and branch offices.
Operational simplicity. When it comes to security operations, Cisco understands that many of its customers are understaffed, lack advanced skills, have too many point tools, and still rely on manual processes. To address those shortcomings, Cisco demonstrated a security operations platform called Visibility, a common SOC analyst workbench for threat detection, incident response, and risk remediation. In its current iteration, Visibility supports a handful of Cisco products, but the company previewed an aggressive roadmap for integration of additional Cisco and third-party products.
Professional and managed services. What many customers may not realize is that Cisco professional and managed cybersecurity services are growing like a weed. Cisco plans to expand its services portfolio to provide flexible consumption options and help customers benefit further from all its security products.
While Cisco realizes it must compete with best-of-breed products, its security go-to-market is now focused on campaigns, providing solutions for security threats such as ransomware defense, breach response, and data center security. These strategic solutions often encompass an integrated bundle of several Cisco products at once.
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3 ways Cisco can prove its cybersecurity strength
I've been following Cisco for over a dozen years and firmly believe that the company's security business is stronger now than it has ever been. That said, many cybersecurity professionals continue to consider Cisco a networking company or retain bad memories of products such as the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) or Cisco Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS). To promote its cybersecurity prowess and gain attention within the infosec diaspora, Cisco should:
Support its platform with marketing and add-on services. The platform wars are just beginning, but customers are already confused by the myriad of offerings from vendors like McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, and Trend Micro. Cisco should use its enterprise relationships to build a security platform market education campaign for CISOs, complete with project plans, success metrics, and add-on services. The goal? Educate and influence executive security decision makers and give them the tools and support to help them through two- to three-year security platform deployment projects.
Flex more innovation and technology leadership muscle. Cisco's scale and security resources are pretty impressive. For example, Cisco Umbrella sees 125 billion DNS queries per day, while the company employs an army of data scientists working on artificial intelligence/machine learning for cybersecurity. So, what's the problem? Those who don't come to CiscoLive have no idea these assets exist, so the company can be outflanked by more boastful cybersecurity startups. Beyond CiscoLive, Cisco should host more security-only events, develop training courses with organizations such as the SANS institute, and reach out to professional organizations such as ISSA to spread the word on all the security research, development, and innovation going on in San Jose.
Take an industry leadership position on cybersecurity architecture standards. Cisco should rally customers and recruit partners to support more industry cooperation around open standards like OpenC2. For starters, Cisco should turn pxGrid over to a standards body with the goal of making it an industry standard.
Cisco is in as good a position as any other vendor, and it could take its cybersecurity business to $5 billion over the next few years if it continues to execute. I'll be watching.
Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk bought 72,500 shares of the company's common stock, a regulatory filing http://bit.ly/2t4K2sYshowed on Wednesday.
Musk bought the shares at between $342.44 and $347.44 per share in multiple transactions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
He is already the electric car maker's largest shareholder and now owns 33.74 million shares worth about $11.6 billion.
Tesla, which continues to burn through cash as it spends on its assembly line and prepares for new investments on projects, is cutting several thousand jobs seeking to reduce costs and become profitable without endangering the critical production ramp-up for its Model 3 sedan.
Tesla has been trying to hit a 5,000 per week production target of its Model 3 sedans after facing initial production hiccups.
Noted short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates said in an interview on CNBC that he continues to short Tesla's shares.
"The company will pull out all the stops, it will do a lot of one-time items, we believe, to show a GAAP profit in the third quarter. But they are just that, one-time items," Chanos said.
"The basic problem is that he is making cars at not enough of a gross margin to make money, and that's before the competition rolls out, which is late this year and early next year."


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This is another page in my faith journal. This is my way to read and learn new scripture verses. On the back I always include reflections or study points about the verse.
My mother suggested this verse to me, 1 Thessalonians 4:11 She said it was her aunt's favorite verse. It pretty much describes me.
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The practice of healthcare is evolving rapidly as new information
supplants old. Gone are the days when newly graduated practitioners
were armed with most of the information they would need
for a lifetime of practice.
The acquisition and implementation of new knowledge is
greatly enhanced through the use of computerized information
management systems.
Good practice techniques require tools to extend the human mind's
limited capacity to recall and process large numbers of relevant
variables. Computers may be used to support the clinician's practice.
However the place of computers in clinical practice depends on whether
they confer an overall advantage, and whether they are acceptable
to patients and clinicians.
Recent history has delivered one unassailable lesson. Any attempt
to use information technology will fail dramatically when the motivation
is the application of technology for its own sake rather than the
solution of clinical problems.
Much of what has been presented as a solution to clinical problems
has come from administration with little or no consultation with
the clinician. It is for this reason that most of presented solutions
have failed to achieve their stated goals of improved efficiencies
and enhanced delivery of healthcare.
Clinicians are best placed to identify possibilities presented
by the increasingly flexible and sophisticated technology available.
Clinicians have long recognized the benefits of computers in clinical
practice, but they are not widely used because of access difficulties.
The current systems in place lack one critical feature the ability
to deliver data on demand. If you need to interrupt the delivery
of healthcare to access data at a stationary PC, you will forgo
data access and focus on the more immediate requirement of delivery
of care.
Handheld or Mobile computers, by definition overcome the limitation
of stationary computer systems to deliver information on demand
to those who must apply that knowledge.
Handheld databases are like a colleague or textbook that supports
your training, intuition and common sense. Recent developments in
the storage capacity of handheld computers have greatly enhanced
the ability of clinicians to access data on demand.


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FCC Cable-Franchise Changes Upheld
The Federal Communications Commission got a big win in federal court Friday.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the FCC's changes to cable-franchise rules, saying the changes were not arbitrary and capricious, were within the FCC's authority and deserved the deference the courts generally grant the expertise of a regulatory agencies.
Various states and city franchising authorities had challenged the FCC's March order streamlining the cable-franchising process and prohibiting local authorities from "unreasonably refusing to award competitive cable franchises." They argued that the FCC was unduly pre-empting their authority over the franchise process and asked the court to vacate the decision.
"We find that the FCC acted well within its statutorily delineated authority in enacting the order and that there exists sufficient record evidence to indicate that the FCC did not engage in arbitrary and capricious rulemaking activity," the court said in denying the petition.
"I am pleased that the court recognized and unanimously supported the commission's authority and our rules," FCC chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement Friday. "Over the past 10 years, cable rates have more than doubled. Consumers need greater choice and more competition to help address the soaring price of cable television. This ruling helps to ensure that new competitors to cable are not subjected to unreasonable delays, build-out requirements and fees when trying to compete with the incumbent cable operators."
Martin also pointed to the court's finding that the decision was not arbitrary and capricious.
"When we adopted this item, dissenting commissioner [Jonathan] Adelstein publicly criticized the [Media] Bureau for having insufficient record evidence. I am particularly pleased that the court directly addressed his claims, unanimously finding that there exists sufficient record evidence to indicate that 'the administrative record fully supported the agency's rulemaking and belies any claims of arbitrary or capricious regulatory activity'."
"The FCC apparently has more expansive authority than many believed," Adelstein responded. "The good news is that we can use our authority to promote competitive video offerings, while also protecting consumers and public access."
"The FCC order's potential harm and unfairness was substantially mitigated when the Commission later applied much of the relief to all providers," said National Cable & Telecommunications Association spokesman Brian Dietz. " Today's video marketplace is intensely competitive and consumers are enjoying more choice, more services and better value than ever before. Cable operators will continue to work hard to provide to consumers the best range of video, broadband and voice services to be the preferred choice of consumers."
The FCC initially streamlined the franchise process for new entrants like phone companies, but then extended it to cable incumbents as well.


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This week i went to the Brisbane premiere screening of Revenge of the Electric Car. As a special pre-screening event, they had a number of electric cars on display.
One of the surprises was the Blade Electron. It's not overly well-known, but it's made by an Australian company. Using the same bodies that are used for the Hyundai Getz, they specialise in putting an electric motor and battery into that body - instead of a petrol based system.
At a time when manufacturing in Australia is shrinking, perhaps this is a company people could get behind. Another good example of how tackling climate change also benefits the economy.
update - Now when i see a Hyundai Getz, i find myself having sympathy for it. That it missed out on the chance to become an electric car ;)


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Herry Chen was initially daunted by the detailed instructions and frustrated at times by mistakes he made trying to follow them.
But after sticking with a two-day design challenge for the very first cohort of students in the new architectural engineering program at the University of Waterloo, he had helped make a sturdy wrap-around bench and learned a valuable lesson in the process.
"I think it taught me you've always got to leave room for flexibility," says Chen, 17. "You need to make adjustments and, at the end of the day, just do what you have to do to make things work."
Demonstrating the importance of trial, error and perseverance was all part of the plan for organizers of the recent Design Days event for architectural engineering students.
And in case there was any doubt about the hand-on learning focus at Waterloo Engineering, they completely cancelled the first two days of classes to make it clear from the start.
Instead of hitting the books, the first 91 students in the architectural engineering program began their academic careers by breaking into small groups at the Engineering Ideas Clinic in the new Engineering 7 building to brainstorm, design and construct pieces of furniture.
In addition to cardboard, plaster, and "lots of glue and tape" – as well as support and guidance from faculty, staff, technicians and upper-year students – the main raw material was their own collective creativity.
"We were engineers with cardboard and exacto knives, but we were building things and they worked," says Kaitlyn Drake, 18, whose team scrapped at least five designs before hitting on a workable one for a combination bench and standing desk. "Our project was a beast – it could hold seven people."
Ideas for pieces of furniture, designed to be used in specific areas of E7, ran from a practical garbage unit to an ergonomic chaise lounge.
After constructing their projects, teams made presentations to a panel of judges, as well as their classmates, and tested their load-bearing capacity by progressively adding weight to them.
That format allowed students to learn from each other as well as their individual successes and failures. It also helped them break the ice as classmates.
"I'm proud of what we made," says Chen. "There were definitely a lot of improvements we could have done, but that's all part of learning."
Drake describes the experience as "difficult, but the kind of difficult that's fun, so it doesn't really feel like it," and welcomed the opportunity to get her hands dirty from the get-go.
"We were just kind of thrown into it – and that hypes you up for the next five years," she says.
Maxime Daviau, Ibaa Kassab Hassan, Joanna Poon and Yvone Yang took the top prize with their bench seat.
Patrick Angkiriwang, Julia Fleming, Dixon Leung and Ayden Ryan won the people's choice award for a double study table.


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Matrix Partners India, a Mumbai based venture capital firm, has invested Rs 100 crore in FIITJEE Ltd, a provider of training for IIT-JEE, AIEEE and other engineering entrance exams. This is the first time FIITJEE raising institutional money although the company has been in the fund raising market for the last three years.
The other test preparation companies who have raised private equity are Career Launcher (from Intel Capital in first round and under $10 million from Gaja Capital Partners in series B) and Mahesh Tutorials (about $12 million from Helix Investments).
The company was founded in 1992 by Dinesh Kumar Goel, an IIT Delhi graduate. A company statement claims that 25,000 of its students have been selected to various IITs since its inception.
"The quality of the entrepreneur and the size and the growth of the opportunity attracted us the most to make the investments in FIITJEE," Rishi Navani, MD & Founder, Matrix Partners told VCCircle. Rishi Navani, Co–founder & Managing Director of Matrix India, will join the board of FIITJEE Ltd.
The company will employ the equity infusion to establish a pan India presence, added Navani. It's likely FIITJEE will move into the formal education space such as schools and colleges, the same way Career Launcher has scaled in the recent past.
For Matrix, this will be the second investment in the education sector which had earlier invested $7 million in Tree House, a pre-school educator. Navani said that education forms the core focus of their investing theme and will be looking at making more investments in this sector.
Matrix Partners India has around $450 million under management. It invests upto $50 million in companies, making venture and growth capital investments. Some of the portfolio companies of Matrix Partners India is Brand Marketing India , Itzcash Card, Seventymm, Yo! China and Tree School.


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Australia's #1 Technology & Robotics Programs for Kids & Teens
Offering the broadest (Year 1 to Year 12 Program)
Innovate Technology and Robotics Academy provides technology, coding and robotics education and training programs for kids and teens. Innovate is an award winning robotics academy in Melbourne, Australia. At Innovate, students will learn robotics, technology, leadership skills and a wholesome STEM education in a fun, engaging and highly interactive environment together with like minded peers. Students do not need any prior experience in robotics to be a part of our academy programs. Be a part of Australia's young generation of innovators.
Students will learn about the big world of robotics, technology and other scientific concepts. They will explore how things work, question how and why those things work and apply the same concept of critical thinking and problem solving to the very tools they are required to work with. Students will get to build and program robots according to a specific curriculum provided by Innovate Technology and Robotics Academy.
Students also learn about robotics in the real world and find a solution pathway to solve engineering challenges.
So what do I need to be part of Innovate Robotics Academy?
A good attitude to learning and problem solving is required and this will help you greatly as you adapt to the various problem solving scenarios. If you have an interest to learn and want to do well, join Innovate and be part of Australia's award winning robotics academy!
Enhance creative thinking skills
Students learn how to solve problems withe their creativity and imagination.
Develop good presentation skills
Students will develop their presentation skills by making presentations on their work in front of their peers.
Be at the forefront to receive an education in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
Students will prepare themselves for their work life and the jobs of today and the future with skills that make them adaptable to a changing world.
Be a leader in embracing technology in an ever changing world
Students will be comfortable with adapting to new technology and change.
Learn programming skills
Students will learn programming skills and understand how programming controls their robots. They will understand the logic behind programming.
Develop critical thinking
Students will develop their critical thinking skills over time and learn how to apply a solution pathway approach to solving problems.
Discover real life engineering challenges and develop creative solutions to solve them
Students will be presented with real life engineering challenges and challenge themselves to think of solutions to solve these problems. Students will develop their confidence with putting their ideas into action.
Work as a TEAM
Working as a team is essential in the school and adult years and through the programs, students will recognize the value of working with others to achieve their goals and develop their ability to work with a range of different personalities.
Develop a curious mind
Students become more determined to find out how things work, what problems the world has and how to solve them. They will develop an eagerness to learn and discover.
Be used to a changing environment and innovate accordingly
With a dynamic and changing technology environment, students will become adaptable to new technology and become comfortable with the changes each new technology brings. Students will understand that change is part of the world we live in and find new ways to tackle issues and problems with a positive attitude.
The Junior Engineering and Technology Academy is an integrated STEM academy for younger students from Prep to Grade 2, to develop their interests in simple machines, mechanisms and how things work. Find out more
The Mindstorms Robotics Academy is an exclusive weekly robotics academy program for students in Grades 3 to 6. It is a place where students will engage and learn the Lego Mindstorms technology as the primary tool in a highly motivated environment with other like minded students. Find out more
The Robotics Systems Academy is an exclusive weekly robotics academy program for students in Grades 3 to 6. It is a place where students will engage and learn various open source (non-Lego) technologies as the primary tool in a highly motivated environment with other like minded students. Find out more
The popular Robot IQ Robotics Academy is suitable for students who love STEM and who wish to take on their learning of robotics to a higher and deeper level with progression along our academic pathway. The Robot IQ Robotics Academy is also suited for beginners with a great attitude of wanting to learn. Find out more
The Advanced Systems Robotics Academy takes robotics to a higher level and is most suited for students who are interested in mechatronics, robotics and technology and who are looking at exploring mechatronics and robotics in their high school years in preparation for university. No prior experience is required but students are required to participate fully and willing to work with others as a team.
In the Advanced Systems Academy, students will be working with advanced robotics systems such as circuits, electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Arduino based systems and Vex Robotics. Find out more
FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES ACADEMY (Grades 10 to 12)
The Innovate Future Technologies Academy takes robotics and technology to a higher level and is most suited for students who are interested in mechatronics, robotics and technology and who are looking at specialising in mechatronics and robotics towards their graduating years in high school years in preparation for university. No prior experience is required but students are required to participate fully and willing to work with others as a team.
In the Future Technologies Academy, students will be working with some the latest technological advancements in the industry, advanced robotics systems such as advanced circuits, electronics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, open source micro-controllers, Arduino based systems.
"Not every child has to become a robotic engineer when they do robotics. What they learn is critical thinking, problem solving and a great amount of teamwork – skills which are essential and prepare them for the working world and life."


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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Women and the Glass Ceiling – the debate continues
19th November,2010. A couple of weeks ago, I had the great privilege of attending a lunch at UCL which was hosted by Margaret Mountford. The lunch was attended by a number of women in leadership positions and yet sadly the … Continue reading
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FashionABLE 2018 celebrating Year of Youth at The Scottish Parliament
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FashionABLE Year of Youth, Scottish Parliament FashionABLE is an innovative organic fashion event created with a great deal of support, time and skills donated from industry experts and organisations who have gifted their time for free. Director of this years inspiring event, celebrating Year of Youth (YOYP) is Olya Arren 28 who joined Team fashionABLE in 2016. Olya has worked tirelessly and brilliantly across all aspects of organising this event with her infectious energy and passion. Olya works at Hand […]
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With President WFTO Rudi Dalvai in attendance from Italy, Gail Porter Presenting, with the wonderful Waverley Market in full swing, the second fashionABLE taking place May 12 2017 @ Waverley Station. With three collections; Fair Trade, Scottish and Upcycled/Recycled, the real stars of the show, our awesome models who attended from across Scotland and as far Dorset. Jack Eyers who came to model the first ever World Fair Trade Tartan kilts is now Mr. England and we congratulate him on […]
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Legislation waspassed last month in the Victorian Parliament's Upper House, abolishing costly standing offers and requiring energy retailers to offer a fairer price on energy.
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The Victorian Default Offer means families and small businesses will be able to demand a fair deal on energy and save hundreds of dollars on their power bills.
The legislation empowers the Essential Services Commission (ESC) to determine a fair price, and work with retailers to enforce it.
The ESC recently released draft advice to the Government, recommending a price that would save a typical residential customer between $390 and $520 per year, and a typical small business customer between $1,800 and $2,300 per year.
At present, more than 145,000 Victorian families and around 45,000 small businesses are on the costly standing offers. They will automatically be placed on the Victorian Default Offer from 1 July this year.
An expert panel, which will work with the ESC,has been established to advise the Government on determining a fair price for electricity.
The Victorian Default Offer builds on other State Government work, such as putting solar panels on 770,000 homes and helping more than 300,000 people compare their energy offer through the $50 Power Saving Bonus.
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Road trip New Zealand: South Island
This is part 2 of a New Zealand travelogue by Calgary writer Will Ferguson. Part 1 ran Saturday, May 18.
The winding roads and rolling hills, the quirky towns and epic scenery: New Zealand is a country designed for road trips. Be advised though, it's much bigger than people realize, larger than Great Britain, in fact, and the convoluted coastlines and twisting routes means it takes much longer to get from Point A to Point B than for a comparable distance in North America. Of course, getting there is half the fun and, as with any road trip worthy of the name, the journey is as important as the destination.
Here then is an easy, three-day South Island road trip from Christchurch to the Otago Peninsula, taking in open plains, cardboard cathedrals, steampunk penguins, a stolid Scottish outpost, weird seascapes and sheer cliffs.
The South Island's largest city is still recovering from the devastation of the 2011 earthquake that left 185 people dead and thousands of buildings in ruins. Much of the city's rich English heritage was erased. In the downtown, only nine major buildings survived. The rest collapsed or are in the process of being dismantled, and, even today, the city remains an open-air construction zone. But the Christchurch spirit is indomitable: the iconic trams still trundle through the streets, sleepy boats still punt along the grassy Avon River, and New Regent Street — with its outdoor cafes and Spanish architectural facades arranged in pastel blues and soft yellows — remains one of the prettiest in New Zealand. A new city is emerging, and it's earthquake proof. Massive retrofitting is underway and the shiny glass buildings that are replacing the older staid Christchurch incorporate every available engineering safety feature.
Emblematic of this spirit is the cardboard cathedral. When the city's iconic Anglican cathedral caved in during the quake (the fallen steeple is now on display at the Quake City exhibition centre), a temporary cathedral was constructed using industrial grade cardboard tubes. Much-beloved, it has since been adopted as a symbol of the city's resilience.
Stu Waddell runs guided walking and cycling tours in Christchurch, and he pointed out where he was standing when the quake hit: mid-air in the atrium of a new office complex. The building he was in is long gone. Anyone who was in Christchurch has similar stories. The receptionist at The George, a boutique hotel overlooking the park, had taken a late lunch outside on the day of the quake and had thus narrowly escaped being in a building that collapsed like a house of cards, killing more than one hundred people. Would she leave Christchurch? She shakes her head. Christchurch is home. Waddell, originally from the North Island, commented on the impact of those events. "Before the earthquake, my heart was still in Wellington. Since the earthquake, it's with Christchurch."
South of Christchurch, the road crosses the vast and majestic (read: boring) Canterbury plains. Don't be dissuaded! By the time you reach Oamaru (pronounced: "Ohm-ah-roo"), the flatlands have given way to pastoral farms and undulating landscapes.
Oamaru has my vote for most interesting town in New Zealand. Although best known as the nightly nesting spot for New Zealand's little blue penguins, the town is worth a visit on its own merit: architecturally unique, with creamy local limestone that gives it an otherworldly Victorian feel. One such historic building is home to New Zealand's Steampunk HQ, a remarkable showcase of scrap-metal statuary, "retro-futuristic Victorian sci-fi," as it's known. It even features a Steam Punk playground for the kids.
It's a beautiful town, but be warned: a hustler is working the Whitestone City museum. It's billed as a family-friendly hub that includes old-fashioned children's games, including a billiard-style setup. One of the guides, Yvonne, gussied up in period-appropriate garb, demonstrated the game, then suggested lightheartedly, that we put some money on the line. Y'know, just to keep things interesting. Her shots had seemed rather wobbly, so sure, I wagered a $1 donation and — wouldn't you know it, once cash was on the table, her accuracy increased threefold. So be aware.
Bonus oddity: South of Oamaru are the eerie Moreoka Boulders, giant naturally formed geological marvels scattered like marbles along the beach. This is one of the most photogenic spots in New Zealand — and that's saying a lot.
A lively Scots city at the end of the world, Dunedin features grand baronial architecture and throngs of international students — Dunedin is home to a world-renowned university — giving it an upbeat, youthful air. It is also home to one of my favourite galleries, though "museum of the unexpected" might be more apt. Indeed, its full name is The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery, a collection of animal skulls and skeletons, and the artistic creations thereof, that represent the life's work of muralist and sculpture Bruce Mahalski. He describes what he does as "bone mâche," but words can't really capture it; you need to see it for yourself. (His daughter, Phoebe Morris, is an artist and illustrator of note as well, providing artwork for several children's books, which her proud papa has on display at his gallery. If you want to see him light up, ask him about his daughter.)
Beyond Dunedin lies an easy day trip along heart-stopping cliffs and curvaceous coastlines. I took the high road in — not recommended for the faint-of-heart — and the low road back down along the coast. Imagine all of New Zealand scrunched into a single peninsula and you have the appeal of Otago, which also features the country's only castle — a manor house perched atop sheep-laden hills — and, at the very tip, the Royal Albatross Centre, though when I popped in there were only three nesting pairs. No matter. With its windswept vistas, the Otago Peninsula makes an apt end to a South Island road trip.
Driving tips
North American driver's licences are accepted in New Zealand, although you are strongly encouraged to take a free online road quiz before you go (see below). Other than that, it's fairly straightforward: the roads are excellent and the local drivers are, well, let's just say that driving brings out the competitive nature of New Zealanders. For such a polite and thoughtful people, they do tend to drive like escaped maniacs when set loose upon hairpin turns. No worries: just pull to the side whenever possible and let these mad kiwi drivers fire past you.
You occasionally see terror-stricken tourists behind the wheel of rented motorhomes. I found the narrow roads and downhill turns too daunting for that. During my three weeks on the road, the first two were in a mid-sized SUV, which I found tricky at times; the last was in a Toyota Corolla, which I thought was perfectly fine. The biggest hazard? The scenery. I imagine more than one tourist has been plucked from the drink after letting their eyes linger a little too long on the constantly unfurling beauty that is New Zealand.
Further information:
Christchurch: https://www.christchurchnz.com/
Christchurch walking and bicycle tours: http://www.chillout.nz\
White Stone City: https://www.whitestonecity.com/
Steam Punk HQ: https://www.steampunkoamaru.co.nz/
Dunedin: https://www.dunedinnz.com/
The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery: http://www.royaldunedinmuseum.com/
The Royal Albatross Centre: https://albatross.org.nz/
NZ Road Quiz for Tourists & Visitors: https://www.drivingtests.co.nz/roadcode/tourist/


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A more Casual Approach to AA
Why a more casual approach to AA can help!
Here is the latest podcast for www.alcoholism-recovery-radio.com and www.recoveringfromrecovering.com . This week I am talking with Adrian from London who has been a member of AA for many years and who has a successful recovery from alcoholism. He still attends AA but takes a more casual approach than many to AA membership. He still takes recovery seriously but his life does not revolve around meetings which is something we both did in our early days.
I found having this discussion really interesting as Adrian has made good use of being in the fellowship, but is certainly not a Big Book thumper and takes a more common sense approach to recovery than some people.
We discuss why we feel AA helps people but also mention things that we feel are out of date. We talk about the literature and why that puts some people off going to AA and miss out on recovery. People like Adrian were the ones that actually helped me in my days in the rooms of AA rather than the Big Book thumpers and members of the cult type meetings.
It is important that people are not put off recovery by people who are over zealous about wanting to sponsor them, or by an old fashioned approach to issues such as taking antidepressants. Some meetings are great and have broad minded members, while others are really more like a religious group where there is more talk about God and Higher Powers, than actual recovery.
I think it is important in recovery to try and get some independence and not simply rely on a sponsor for every big decision in your life. I am not saying you should take chances with recovery but at the same time I think it is a good idea to try and live a normal life that does not revolve around having a fear of drinking.Google+
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Great podcast Adrian and Mike. Well done. Would be good to have more fireside chats like this. I like the casual approach. Great job. J
Wow. What a wonderful thing a casual approach would be. The social support without believing the party line!
I just had a moment of clarity in an NA meeting last week. I realized I don't believe that addiction is a DISEASE. I believe it's a strongly held propensity, one I may never shake enough to risk messing around with chemicals again. Plus I am older now and see its boringness. I realized when a friend said that addiction was like diabetes or cancer that I had left that camp and should be aware of it for my own sake. I choose not to lie to myself about my opinions on the nature of addiction.
I am tired of having to say that addiction is a disease in order to allow that 12 step approach (and many other approaches) can be very helpful. The 12 steps do not say addiction is a disease, in fact imply that one is accountable for one's current predicament (powerlessness) and its extent (unmanageability), as well as for the hurt we have caused. I don't apologize to friends if I knocked over their table when I had hypoglycemia, except maybe to be polite, but not because I harmed anyone.
But the steps also are not the extent of what is useful for recovery… therapy! personal insight! kindness to self and others! these do not belong to AA.
I am processing all this. Thank you for having a place to discuss a different perspective on recovery
Hi from the states 25 years sober. I enjoy this casual approach . I always tell people new to the 12 steps that in my observation it is those that practice complete abstinence that do best……….I have seen lots of people make great pronouncements about working the steps but they don't abstain and they don't do very well
It is important to remember that as Ernie Kurtz writes AA does not deal directly with alcoholism which is beyond it's lay expertise but the impact upon the alcoholic.
I also point out to people that most people don't stop thru AA often it is threat of loss of job , family spouse etc..
Lastly I will listen to any idea that might work. But once it or the idea becomes obviously critical of the 12 step approach I stop_ not because I think the 12 steps are the only way but because they are an obviously very useful way and as the AA tradition states as an organization they have no opinion on outside issues.


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Do You Know God Has A Big Eraser? Series
Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Apr 27, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: no matter our sin, God will forgive and wipe them away
If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess
our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. (1 John 1:8-9)
When was the last time you did something stupid? Now just so we are "on the same page," Merriam
Webster dictionary defines stupid as, "given to unintelligent decisions or acts." In other words:
airheaded, bird-brained, bonehead, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dorky, dumb,
For most of us, it would be more often than we like to admit. Of course most of the time we do
something stupid, we look around quickly to make sure no one saw us.
But what about the things we do that are stupid spiritually?
Do we treat them in the same way as we treat the other dumb things we do? ?
Do we try to hide them or deny them?
What about the unkind words, the angry actions, cursing using God's name or failing to put him first in
our lives? How do we view our interaction with our family, friends, neighbors or co-workers -- do we
ever do dumb things in those relationships?
As the saying goes, "When you mess up, fess up!" We all know we do whether we do it intentionally or
Confession is where change of the heart begins. That's where we begin to recognize and acknowledge
the "stupid spiritual things" we have done, and then commit, that with God's help, we will stop
ourselves before we do them again.
Now, what we have to confess may be petty, like cussing. Those are the little 'sins' that we don't have
to take to anyone except God.
And God uses that big eraser to wipe the slate clean.
But the Bible is full of stories of God forgiving people. Think of:
? Cain killing Abel
? David and Bathsheba ?
Moses losing his temper and throwing the Ten Commandments.
These were BIG sins – someone was hurt by what another person did. But God still forgave these sins.
Think of Jesus asking God
Forgive them for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34)
And when we confess either to God or the person we have hurt, we gain that forgiveness that God
gave to those who crucified Jesus.
But what about those little sins that we commit without knowing it – being inconsiderate or selfish,
hurting someone else's feeling, not loving others as yourself? If we don't realize we sinned, it is really
hard to confess.
Does God hold those against us and punish us?
When Jesus died on the cross for us, he died for forgiveness of ALL our sins – those we confess and
those we don't know we committed.
And God takes that big eraser and wipes the slate clean.
Now that doesn't mean we can keep committing the same sins. We need to try and not do those things
we know are wrong. But I do know that we all will probably continue to do other dumb things in our
lives and relationships. I also know if we confess my sins, God will forgive them. Then we can confess
them to those I hurt or offended and begin to repair the relationships!
So let's make sure we confess our sins, large of small, so that God can wipe them away with that big
Let us pray:
Dear God, how can I ever thank you enough for all you have done for me in giving your Son Jesus to
pay the penalty for all my sins. In confessing my sins to you, I thank you for your gift of forgiveness and
eternal life. Please help me to be as forgiving to others as you have been and are to me. Gratefully, in
Jesus' name, amen.
Delivered at In The Garden, Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square, Columbus, OH; 3 June 2012
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Sydney Casinos
The Australian government continues the campaign against gambling, which is gradually gaining momentum in the country. This time, the slot machines, which can be found not only in numerous gambling establishments, but also, as AFP writes, in almost any bar or pub, came under attack.
The most popular among Australian gambling lovers are poker machines: they have no equal in their prevalence. In total, there are about 200 thousand such devices in the country, and an army of fans of a simplified version of poker has at least 600 thousand people. According to statistics, just as many Australians regularly (at least once a week) play in clubs and bars.
Australian authorities do not plan to completely close the casinos, which bring impressive sums to the budget, but, nevertheless, officials have long recognized that the problem of gambling addiction is seriously in the country. For every sixth player, the money left in the casino is at least 40% of the total monthly budget. It is to fight with the most avid "poker players" and sent a new package of initiatives.
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Usually working in an office setting with both military and civilian personnel, admin specialists are professional Soldiers. Ensuring the proper handling of personnel matters for Soldiers throughout the entire Vermont Army National Guard, administration specialists make sure Soldiers are taken care, assisting with everything from pay to legal issues to processing personal data.
Public Affairs Specialist work to get the Vermont National Guards story out to the public and it's members. Through interviews, research, press release, website articles, and production videos you will share the work of the men and women of the Vermont Army National Guard. Soldiers who take on this role will hold a special role in impacting the publics perception of who we are within the community.
Job training for Soldiers in the Administrative Field consists of ten weeks of Basic Combat Training (BCT) plus 7-12 weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) depending on your specialty. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Depending on your job specialty there will be a mixture of classroom and field training.
Human Resources (HR) Specialists help Soldiers develop their Guard careers, and provide personnel support to all Guard divisions. HR Specialists' duties include maintaining personnel records, coordinating evaluations and promotions, and processing recommendations for awards and decorations. They also oversee Soldier requests for ID cards and tags, leaves of absence and passes.
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Battle of Green Spring
By the summer of 1781, British and American forces had tramped across the Southern Colonies, with no end of the war in sight. British forces under Lord Cornwallis had left North Carolina low on supplies after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and proceeded north into Virginia, meeting an army under the command of Benedict Arnold outside of Petersburg. This combined British force then proceeded east towards the Virginia Peninsula in order to reach Portsmouth and open access for naval supply and reinforcement from the main British army in New York.
Cornwallis was shadowed during this movement by an American force of around 4,000 men under the command of the Marquis de Lafayette. While the British Army was composed primarily of regulars and veteran Loyalist units, the American ranks were primarily filled with Virginia Militia, with a strong corps of Continental regulars.
The British continued down the Peninsula, skirmishing with their pursuers, and finally reached the area of Jamestown on July 4th. Cornwallis' plan was to cross the James River at the Jamestown Ferry and then proceed to Portsmouth. However, informed that Lafayette was closing in upon the British, Cornwallis prepared a defensive position in the area of the Green Spring, hoping to ambush the smaller Continental force and eliminate future threats to the British march.
Green Spring was named after the plantation which stood there, and was surrounded by marshy ground, dense woods, and valleys. The British positioned their regular regiments in the woods and valleys, concealed from any approaching enemy force. The British baggage train was sent to the south side of the James, along with the loyalist Queens Rangers and North Carolina Provincials.
On next day, July 5th, Lafayette's American force reached Norrell's Mills, only eight miles from the British crossing point. Lafayette had the men sleep upon their arms for the night, intending to move on the British first thing in the morning. The Americans believed that the British force was divided, and that Cornwallis remained on the north bank of the James with only a small portion of his army.
On the morning of July 6th, 1781, Lafayette accompanied an advance guard of 500 Pennsylvania Continentals and members of one of the composite Light Infantry battalions, all under the command of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Upon reaching the area of Green Spring, the Americans began skirmishing with pickets under the command of Banastre Tarleton. Lafayette, feeling as though he had caught the rearguard of the British, called for the rest of his force to march to the battle.
As Wayne formed up, Lafayette explored the possibilities of crushing this British force on the north side of the river. As he proceeded forward, he noted large groups of men in red coats formed in lines. Cornwallis had led the Americans right into his trap.
Lafayette galloped back to the advance guard under Wayne, but it was too late. Wayne was advancing with several regiments of Pennsylvania Continentals, Light Infantry, and Virginia Riflemen. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Pennsylvania ran headlong into a brigade under Lieutenant Colonel Dundas consisting of veterans troops of the 43rd Regiment of Foot, as well as the Scots of the 76th and 80th Regiments of Foot. This brigade pushed back Wayne's men as Lt. Colonel Yorke's Light Infantry battalions pushed forward on the British right. A second line consisting of the battle hardened Guards, 23rd, and 33rd regiments of Foot was held back as a second line.
Dundas's Brigade smashed through the American right flank in a decisive bayonet charge while the American left was being hard pressed by the British light infantry, and Lafayette gave the order for the entire American force to withdraw. Wayne, seeing both of his flanks collapsing, felt as though there was no time to withdraw his Pennsylvanians. To give the rest of the army time to withdraw, he ordered his outnumbered men to make a bayonet charge straight into the British center.
As the Pennsylvanians fixed bayonets, Wayne had his artillery fire grapeshot into the advancing Redcoats. The ensuing infantry charge temporarily stunned the British advance, as the men stopped to fire into Wayne's men. For fifteen minutes the two sides blazed away at each other until Wayne judged the carnage too great for his men to hold out any longer and ordered a retreat. At the same time, Cornwallis led the British in a countercharge which drove Wayne's men off of the field.
Two battalions of American Light Infantry covered the American withdrawal, with Lafayette riding among the retreating men until his horse was shot from under him. With the Americans in full retreat, Cornwallis chose not to pursue, and instead took the opportunity to safely cross his men to the south side of the James.
The Americans fell back to Richmond, in order to regroup and re-supply. Lafayette asked for Washington to send further reinforcement from the main army to replace his losses. Meanwhile, as Cornwallis received new orders to set up a permanent supply base at Yorktown.
Cornwallis marched to the port city on the north side of the peninsula, digging in and awaiting reinforcements. Seeing this movement, Lafayette wrote to Washington, asking him to seize the opportunity the British had just given them. A French fleet under the Comte de Grasse was en route from the Caribbean, and Washington gathered his forces along with the French army of the Comte de Rochambeau and proceeded south.
The decisive battle of the war in the South was at hand, Yorktown was only about six weeks away…
Before we start our talk about Yorktown, we do need to wrap up the war in South Carolina, and with that we'll start talking about Eutaw Springs
Eutaw Springs, SC
The Battle of Eutaw Springs was the last engagement of the war in the Carolinas.
On May 22, Gen. Nathaniel Greene of the Continental Army attempted to storm the strong British post at Fort Ninety-Six but was repulsed.
By this time, midsummer, 1781, even with the loss at Ninety-Six, the Continentals under Gen. Nathaniel Greene had gained virtual control of South Carolina. The retreating British. disillusioned and sick with summer heat, united forces under Col. Stewart at Orangeburg and began their march to Charleston.
Early in September, the 2,300 well-equipped British camped in cool shade beside the gushing springs of Eutaw, little dreaming the Continentals were close upon their heels. Greene, hearing of Gen. George Washington's plan to encircle and embarrass the British at Yorktown, determined to prevent Southern aid from reaching the beleaguered Cornwallis. Contingents under Marion, Pickens, Lee, William Washington, Hampton and other South Carolina leaders were called together, and reinforcements from other colonies joined them.
On September 7, these 2,092 poorly-equipped, underfed, and near-naked Americans camped on the River Road at Burdell's Plantation, only 7 miles from Eutaw Springs. Strategy for the ensuing attack is accredited to the genius of the dreaded Gen. Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion. He knew every foot of the Santee swamps and river.
On September 8, dawned fair and intensely hot, but the Americans, on short rations and with little rest, advanced in early morning light toward the springs. At their approach the surprised British left their uneaten breakfast and quickly threw lines of battle across the road in a heavily wooded area. Behind them in cleared fields stood a large brick home with a high-walled garden. The woods and waters of Eutaw Creek were on the north. Heavy firing soon crackled and boomed through the shady woods.
At first the center of the American line caved in, but while opposing flanks were fighting separate battles, Greene restored the center with Sumner's North Carolina Continentals. The whole British line then began to give, but Stewart quickly pulled up his left-flank reserves, forcing the Americans to retreat under thunderous fire. The encouraged British shouted, yelled, and rushed forward in disorder; whereupon Greene "brought in his strongest force: the Maryland and Virginia Continentals, Kirkwood's Delaware's, and Wm. Washington's South Carolina cavalry . . . with devastating effect."
The British fled in every direction and the Americans took over their camp. Only one British major, on the British right flank and pushed far back into the woods near Eutaw Creek, was able to hold his unit together. Major Sheridan took hasty refuge in the brick home, Colonel Stewart gathered some of his men beyond, and from this vantage they "picked off" many American officers and men.
Greene sent Col. William Washington's cavalry to deal with Majoribanks, but penetrating the woods with horses was too difficult, so Washington tried to encircle and rout, thus exposing himself to dangerous fire. His horse was shot from under him, he himself was wounded. and his company practically ravaged. When a hand to hand fight developed, a British soldier poised his sword over the wounded Washington, but Majoribanks saw and gallantly turned it aside.
In camp, eating the deserted breakfast, and feeling the battle was won, the hungry, thirsty Americans began plundering the English stores of food, liquors, and equipment. Thoroughly enjoying themselves they ignored their leaders' warnings and commands. Majoribanks, realizing the disorder, fell upon them. Sheridan and Stewart pounded at their right, and Coffin came in from their left. The stunned Americans fought this impossible situation bravely, but they were put to flight from the British camp.
After more than 4 hours of battle, both armies had had enough. Casualties were extremely high. "Blood ran ankle-deep in places," and the strewn area of dead and dying was heart-breaking. Greene collected his wounded and returned to Burdell's Plantation. Stewart remained the night at Eutaw Springs.
On September 9, Stewart hastily retreated from Eutaw Springs toward Charleston, leaving behind many of his dead unburied and seventy of his seriously wounded. The gallant Majoribanks, wounded and on his way to Moncks Corner, died in a Negro cabin on Wantoot Plantation. He was buried beside the road.
Many of the men who were killed were buried where they fell. This last major battle in South Carolina completely broke the British hold in the South and, more importantly, it denied needed aid to the British forces in the North.


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The collection is divided into two main sections: the sculpture collection and a collection of everyday objects and collectors' items, called the Gabinet del Coleccionista.
The sculpture collection features works of art from around Spain spanning the pre-Roman period to the 19th century, and includes important exhibits from the Middle Ages and polychrome religious carvings. Spanish sculptures from the Renaissance and baroque periods are also widely represented and there are examples of works from the main Spanish schools of sculpture, from the medieval period to modern times.
The "Gabinet del Col·leccionista" showcases a series of handcrafted objects that bear witness to the everyday lives of our ancestors from the 15th to 19th centuries and is divided into three galleries.
The "Sala Femenina" is one of the galleries that best represents the museum Frederic Marès's collection and bears witness to women's lives during the romantic era. It contains a collection of fans, combs, jewellery, clothing and other fashion accessories.
The "Sala de les Diversions", features toy theatres, automata, toys and retains all the charm and evocative power of the entertainments of yore.
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Women's Shoes
The fashion industry recognizes house labels to make up their collections. Today fashion, art, music, designers, dance etc all have a place in the industry and people can choose to take up anything related to this industry as their profession too. Apart from the stylish clothes and fashion that is currently popular people want to try something that goes along with their outlook.
If we talk about India, then India is very rich in using bright colors, long dresses specially on some special events and occasions. The virtual disappearance of French fashion houses during the war led American designers to explore their own creativity. When finally they decided to expand their product lines, they started integrating the newest craze and trendiest styles in fashion into their designs.
Designs from Indian market are targeted more at the older sector of the market. Eventually, Charles Frederick Worth, the first fashion designer, set up his first fashion house in Paris. Moreover, it is to be known that these outfits and fashion wears will be ramp at the stage by no common model but the Bratz themselves.
Throughout the 20th century, Paris remained the world's fashion hub, with countries such as the US and Britain openly aping the French designs. Today, fashion designs can be categorized into two main categories. By the late 1940s, women craved a return to glamor and designers obliged with swirling skirts and shimmering evening gowns inspired by film stars like Ingrid Bergman, Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford.
The World Of Fashion
We are living in a world surrounded by numerous things that are either related to the technology, the latest gadgets or the latest fashion. Women attending fashion shows would love to be seen in their beautiful attire showing off a part of their body, gaining the attention of the judges and the rest of the crowd. On some happiest moments of life or any party or wedding people love to wear bright and stylish clothes.
The exotic frippery of the Jazz Age soon disappeared to be replaced by more simple styles of dress. Later, American designers such as Calvin Klein And Ralph Lauren came to the fore with their sportswear and made it a style statement. And on some sad situations or on lost of someone people mostly dress up with white and black dresses, depends on their region or culture.
So as the line between reality and has been blurred to make the distinction, these teenagers would not let that they got missed up with the latest fashion styles and wardrobe. Paris Hilton could have just broken up with her latest guy during the morning while wearing designer jeans and top and party that same night in a silvery wisp of a dress.
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In recent years, we've seen many unsung or short-lived indie and punk acts of the '90s get new Internet-age respect, with online interest plus reissues and reunions feeding the fire. Universal Order of Armageddon, an East Coast post-hardcore act from the early '90s, for example, reunited in 2011 for a series of gigs and a Chaos in Tejas festival set. Yesterday, however, the band realized it was getting attention of a different kind when guitarist Tonie Joy was informed that a live performance photo of UOA had been used in a Jack Daniel's ad in the UK. Joy shared the image on his Facebook page where NoMa heard about it. Joy declined to comment on the situation. We're simply left wondering how it happened and if perhaps, this is one among many appropriations to come from the '90s—a cultural era that has a surprisingly high level of cachet at the moment.
A classic vinyl record spinning on a handsome vintage turntable conjures all kinds of memories—often of the first time we heard the music itself. German photographer Kai Schäfer plays with these memories and associations in his "World Records" series. He began shooting Led Zeppelin IV a few years back, and has since shot more than a hundred records (from London Calling to Harvest) on more than 25 different vintage turntables (Dual, Braun, B&O).
Wired reports that Schäfer uses a Hasselblad camera with a Phase One digital back and a special flash, then makes enormous prints that can be six feet wide. His rules for the records? First or second pressings from the artist's native country shot on a turntable that would have been similar to one available at the time of the record's release. He often rents the vinyl or turntables for audiophiles in Düsseldorf, but has popped for collectables, such as a $650 copy of Elvis's "Mystery Train" single on Sun.
The Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles will be exhibiting a selection of the "World Records" prints from June 8 to July 13.
Bryan Ray Turcotte, founder of Kill Your Idols which published the authoritative volume on punk flyers, Fucked Up + Photocopied, has collaborated with Los Angeles MOCA for a new web series called "The Art of Punk." The episodes feature interviews with Raymond Pettibon, who created the bars logo and album cover art for his brother Greg Ginn's band Black Flag, as well as punk luminaries Flea, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Keith Morris, and more.
The three-part series begins with Black Flag on June 11, but in the meantime check out the trailer below to see Flea on the toilet talking about art and action coming together, as well as details about the L.A. premiere at MOCA this Thursday, June 6.
Peter Saville's Unknown Pleasures album art for Joy Division is everywhere. While you've probably seen questionable placements on every article of clothing from T-shirts, to nail art, to oven mitts, the shaky waveforms (derived from images of radio waves emitted from a pulsar) actually work incredibly well in the 3D printed format.
To create his 3D version, designer Michael Zoellner edited the original album art using the programs AutoCAD and OpenSCAD, and printed his version using a Makerbot printer. In the spirit of all things open source, Zoellner has made his printable image available for download. [via Hypebeast]
For the first music video from his upcoming metal album, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei recreated scenes from his 81-day imprisonment in 2011 on a set modeled after his actual jail cell. The video depicts some humiliating moments from his imprisonment, such as a forced shower in front of guards accompanied by a head shaving, as well as a bizarre drag sequence. Australian cinematographer Chrisopher Doyle shot the nightmarish clip, which has already been banned in China, as has the search term "Ai Weiwei." [via BBC]
As a way to welcome visitors to his much larger thesis project examining the world of elaborately decorated Indian truck art, Shantanu Suman created a series of music boxes that recreate the variety of musical horns truck drivers use in India.
The unique horns aren't just a vanity addition to vehicles. In India, nearly every truck bears a form of the message "Horn Please" to ask other drivers to extend a courtesy honk before passing. After realizing the custom led to hundreds of trucks beeping at once, drivers began to modulate horns to sound more pleasing when heard together. The result is a kind of random mobile sound installation composed of many horns of different tones.
To create the music box introduction to his project, Suman first laser cut the typography and ornamentation, then painted each box by hand. [via UnderConsideration]
Check out more of Suman's "Project Horn Please" online. Watch the trailer for his documentary of the same name and a clip of the horns in action below.
Back in March, the National revealed the cover art for its new LP, Trouble Will Find Me, a black and white image showing the top of a woman's head inside some kind of mirror system. That image is actually a scene from an installation staged at RISD in 2003 by the artist Bohyun Yoon. The installation, called Fragmentation, featured a man and woman lying nude with four mirror panels spread evenly from their ankles to head. By presenting "depersonalized" human bodies Yoon intended to draw a parallel between modern science and the consequences of plastic surgery on the human form.
The National's sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, will be released by 4AD on May 20, and is currently streaming on iTunes.
In 2013, there's both a FLAG and a Black Flag touring and playing Black Flag songs—we won't get into who's putting on the better show. But it was FLAG, featuring former Black Flag members Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Bill Stevenson, and Dez Cadena (as well as Descendents guitarist Stephen Egerton), that returned to the scene of the band's first ever gig on January 27, 1979, the Moose Lodge #1873 in Redondo Beach, CA for a semi-secret show. FLAG blazed through a 40-minute set at the secret gig, and just this week, lucky for us, professionally shot and edited footage of the show has hit the Internet. In the fight for the legacy of the iconic punk act, FLAG certainly won this battle, if not the war.
With the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, coming May 21 and streaming today, the electronic music duo couldn't have picked a better time to team up with their producer, the father of disco, Girogio Moroder, and fashion photographer Heidi Slimane for a sleek black and white photo shoot.
View the entire shoot on Dazed.
Miami-via-NYC group Lansing-Dreiden released a trio of well-regarded and influential long-players in the aughties, all refining an original blend of '80s synthpop and galactic space rock. But L-D isn't a typical band—in fact, it calls itself a "multimedia company" and has created visual art, graphic design, installations, and a free literary journal, Death Notice, all under the L-D name. Famously, Lansing-Dreiden featured a band in its video that was not Lansing-Dreiden. This year, the Mexican Summer label reissues three Lansing-Dreiden albums on vinyl, so we thought we'd check in with the directors of the multimedia company and see if we could find out more.
What was Lansing-Dreiden all about? It was a "collective" and also made up of visual artists, right?
We refer to Lansing-Dreiden as a company instead of a collective. Collective implies a group of artists working together on a single project whereas a company has a mission and aesthetic that must be maintained regardless of who the members are. Some members were visual artists and some were musicians, some both, but the company was set up in a way where everyone could take part in all of the decisions since they were ultimately meant to reflect the company itself and not any individual.
And then it became more about art than music? What kind of art?
It has never been an either/or situation. The entire body of work we make all comes from the same place. Our favorite medium has been misinformation.
What's the connection with Violens?
Apparently one of Lansing-Dreiden's members is part of a guitar pop group named Violens. We have never listened to it.
Why are the L-D albums being reissued? I always thought they should have gotten a bit more attention.
We appreciate that. They are being reissued because the label asked us if we wanted to have the records printed on vinyl, and we did. Over the years, the number of people we've met that found the work interesting in some way have far outnumbered the ones that have initially dismissed it. These re-releases are for them.
Can you tell us about the album packaging design?
It is pretty minimal, just black and white. A double-matte coat with silver foil stamp logo and song names on the back. Three releases are being reissued on 12". Each record cover is a more minimal spin on its original packaging.
L-D has been fairly media shy, but Violens has done interviews. Is that about creating a mystique or just more about time management?
Lansing-Dreiden has never really been media shy, we answer most questions. The press have accused us of using our anonymity as a gimmick—perhaps that's laziness on their part? The point of Lansing-Dreiden was to produce works in various mediums that were thematically and aesthetically in harmony, following a set of rules. We chose anonymity because we wanted the audience to relate to the work on its own terms, without needing to have a media personality to refer to.
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