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Where her fair breasts at liberty were let,
Whose violet veins in branched riverets flow,
And Venus' swans and milky doves were set
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(Excerpt from 'Mortimer and Queen Isabella at Nottingham castle' by Michael Drayton 1563 -1631)
'Her breasts were naked for the day was hot'
(Excerpt from 'Armida entertains Rinaldo' by Edward Fairfax d 1635)
In the previous post about Tudor boobs I had wanted to include a photograph I had seen of a short-lived fashion trend from London in the 1960's. I clearly remember having seen a woman photographed in the street wearing a dress which exposed her breasts. Sadly, I couldn't find it – as you can imagine, a Google search for 'woman' and 'breasts exposed' manages plenty of hits! ( 9,610,000 last count) – unfortunately it wasn't a very good way of researching my blog post.
I still keep noticing good examples of this trend for breast exposure in the Tudor period – I found this example (below) the other day in the Roxburghe ballads accompanied by 'Celia'
Come, my CELIA, let us prove,
While we may, the sports of love ;
Time will not be ours for ever :
He at length our good will sever.
Spend not then his gifts in vain.
Suns that set, may rise again:
But if once we lose this light,
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Why should we defer our joys ?
Fame and rumor are but toys.
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A mystery solved!
As mentioned at the top of the post I was no closer to finding out who it was in the original 1960's photo until I happened to chance across it in an unexpected place.
I was lucky enough to have seen the Clash when they came to The Top Rank Suite in Dale End, Birmingham (about 1978 I think)I have been a fan ever since. The first Clash album is one of my favourites and I especially like the song 'Janie Jones' which is one of the best songs on it.
I have always played the guitar – excruciatingly badly I admit – but it keeps me happy. I was trying to play 'Janie Jones' and decided to look up the chords on-line , I also wondered why the song was called Janie Jones and looked that up too.
I came across this website telling the story of Janie Jones, who was a London Madam, pop star and friend to the Clash. Check out her 1965 single 'Witches brew' and notice the picture that is 8 seconds in.
Mystery solved! – this is the photo of Janie taken as she attended the 1964 premiere of the film 'London in the raw' – this is the image I recall seeing on TV sometime in the past.
So – for the first ( & possibly last) time ever I have an excuse to put a Clash video on a blog about the Tudors! This is a video from 1977 – around the time that I saw them, what a great band and what a great front man Joe Strummer was –
RIP Joe.
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Hes in love with gettin stoned woaahh
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1. Apple's big annual developer conference kicks off today. WWDC is expected to have announcements about Siri, Apple Music, iOS, and OS X, The Verge reports.
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After 14 issues and one year of bringing you the stories that affect the disabled community, your disability rights magazine UNITE has ceased publication, effective immediately.
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Credit: photo by David HoshorHollywood often creates cultures from the movies it produces. The singing cowboy was one such creation. As far back as the 1920's, the first singing cowboy appeared on the big screen. The western films of the singing cowboy were quite different from the traditional western. In the musical western, the cowboys rode alongside autos, used telephones, and raced airplanes.
Beginnings of the Musical Western Movies
The silent movie actor Ken Maynard was the first actor who actually sang in a western movie. The movie was released in January of 1930; a movie called "Parade of the West." He was followed by actor Bob Steele; though there is speculation if he sang the songs in his films or his voice was dubbed by his brother. He sang in only five of the 24 films he made between 1930 and 1934.
When John Wayne began making western movies at the tender age of 26, one of his first films was as the singing cowboy SCredit: photo by Robert N. Bradburyandy Saunders in "Riders of Destiny." The problem was that though Wayne could act; he could not sing and therefore, his voice was dubbed in the movie by Smith Ballew. Wayne went along with this for a time but as the character of Sandy Saunders became more popular, it led to embarrassing moments for the actor when fans requested he sing during personal appearances. At that point, he refused to sing in any more westerns.
Gene Autry is the First King of the Cowboys
With Wayne's refusal to continue as a singing cowboy, the production company needed to find another actor to take on those roles. Enter Gene Autry. He could sing, but unlike Wayne, he wasn't that good of an actor. The production company, Republic Pictures, gave Autry a few acting lessons and cast him in a 12-week serial called "The Phantom Empire" which was a strange combination of western and science fiction; but exposed Autry to the audience such that when he made his next film, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" the film was a hit as was the record.
Gene Autry was widely popular and became known as the King of the Cowboys. He rode a well-trained horse, Champion and lived by his own cowboy code:
- The hero must not take unfair advantage of anyone, including the bad guys.
- The hero must not hit anyone smaller than himself.
- The hero must always keep his word.
- The hero must not smoke or drink in public.
- The hero must not kiss the girl.
Autry's rise to stardom was quick. His films did well and he was the only western star to be lisCredit: Photo courtesy of the Gene Autry Showted by movie theater owners as among the top ten money makers of film during the years of 1938 to 1942. In 1942 Autry enlisted in the military and by the time Autry was discharged in 1945; Roy Rogers had taken over as the King of the Cowboys. Autry elected to form his own film company, Flying A Productions. He went on to make more films and also produced "the Gene Autry Show" for CBS.
Autry was a shrewd business man and his financial empire began when he franchised his name and face. Over the years, he bought ten radio stations, a television station, a hotel, a flying school, a music-publishing company, a cattle ranch and a California baseball team. He continued to write and record songs including the well known "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Roy Rogers the Next King of the Cowboys
Though Roy Rogers never quite reached Autry's level of record sales; he was the only one who gave Autry any competition as a singing cowboy star. Starting in the films in 1937, Rogers didn't star until Autry's absence during the war. Like Autry, Rogers' popuCredit: photo by Megan Raleylarity grew rapidly and it wasn't long before he became the new King of the Cowboys.
Born Leonard Franklin Slye, Rogers changed his name several times over the course of his career. His entertainment career included stints with two friends in a band they called Sons of the Pioneers. He appeared in almost 100 films that spanned three decades of movie making, eventually surpassing Autry at the box office.
Rogers became even more of a household name when he starred in his own television show "The Roy Rogers Show" which co-starred his wife, Dale Evans and featured his famous horse Trigger, dog Bullet and Evans' horse, Buttermilk. Evans wrote the song "Happy Trails" which became the show's theme song and which is still widely sung today.
There were other singing cowboys, but none that could rival the popularity of Autry and Rogers. Other singing cowboys include:
- Tex Ritter
- Sons of the Pioneers
- Ken Curtis
- Monte Hale
- Bob Steele
- Dick Foran
- Kirby Grant
- William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy)
The "B" western faded in the 50's partly due to the appearance of the television shows that featured the singing cowboys. Rex Allen was considered the last of the singing cowboys. In more recent years, the singing cowboys have been parodied; the most notable is "Rustler's Rhapsody," a 1985 film starring Tom Berenger.
Essortment.com "Singing Cowboys" (accessed May 4, 2010)
Biography.com "Roy Rogers" (accessed May 4, 2010)
Nytimes.com "Gene Autry, Singing Cowboy Who Rode Champion to Fame, Dies at 91" (accessed May 4, 2010)
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Quiet Dell Murders
West Virginia's Crime of the Century
By Stan Bumgardner
On August 27, 1931, lurid headlines shocked the town of Clarksburg and quickly took the nation by storm as a grisly story unfolded from the nearby community of Quiet Dell. Each extra of the local newspapers revealed more sordid, vivid details about Cornelius O. Pierson, a.k.a Joe Gildaw, a.k.a. Harry Powers. The nation soon knew him as the "Bluebeard of Quiet Dell."
The saga began with a phone call from more than 500 miles away. On the evening of August 26, officials in Park Ridge, Illinois, contacted Clarksburg police about a widow and her three children who had been missing for more than two months. The mother, Asta Buick Eicher, had left behind 27 letters from Cornelius O. Pierson, postmarked from Clarksburg. City officials did not recognize the name and dispatched detective Carl Southern to the local post office. Southern discovered that a Cornelius Pierson had rented Box 277 and followed the lead to 111 Quincy Street in the city's Broad Oaks suburb. It was the home of a local grocer and former vacuum salesman known locally as Harry Powers. Policemen waited outside the Quincy Street house for Powers to appear. When Powers returned home around noon on August 27, he was placed under arrest for manslaughter in the disappearance of Eicher and her children, despite the lack of solid evidence or the bodies of the missing people. In his pockets, curiously, were five letters addressed to five different women.
Additional information led police to a board and batten garage on a small farm Powers owned in Quiet Dell — located today just off the Nutter Fort exit of Interstate 79. With the help of neighbors, detectives broke into the garage and found dried bloodstains but no bodies.
On the morning of August 28, police escorted Powers to the garage and discovered bloodstained clothing and jewelry in a basement beneath the garage, concealed by a trapdoor. Powers admitted the scene looked suspicious but offered no explanation. In addition to the personal effects, police also noticed a noose tied to a rafter above the trapdoor.
Following up on a tip from a local 15 year old boy, police uncovered a drainage ditch beside the garage. On the afternoon of August 28, while excavating the ditch, investigators found what they were looking for — the badly decomposed bodies of Eicher and her three children: Greta, 14; Harry, 12; and Anabel, 9. The victims' hands had been bound with rope that matched the noose in the garage. Two days later, the police also found the body of Dorothy Lemke, a 50 year old widow from Northboro, Massachusetts.
About 4:25 that night, in the early morning hours of August 29 — following lengthy questioning by police from Clarksburg and Park Ridge — Powers confessed to the murders.
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In my last post about game based learning I spoke to the power of rules in school and the need to create a rules system that supports and encourages learning and productive failure. Central to this issue is the dissonance between the goals of our rules (to create a safe and effective learning environment) and the student perception of those rules (punitive failure, demotivational grading). I see a similar disconnect of intent and outcome when it comes to feedback in instruction. Again, the goals of feedback are admirable and lofty – I tell my students what they did well and where they fell flat so that they may correct that behavior in the future, or better yet try again at the given assignment and demonstrate improvement, turn that C into a B or an A. Why is it then that students so often ignore my meticulously crafted feedback, or choose to live with the C instead of taking the opportunity to try again for the A? Why would that same student try over and over, often for hours on end, to get 3 stars on every Angry Birds level, when 1 star is all they need to progress? It turns out that the immediacy of the feedback in games makes all the difference. (more…)
Posts Tagged 'Motivation'
Why Gaming Part 2: Building Feedback Momentum
April 25, 2013 by Josh Caldwell
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Why Gaming Part 1: When Students Rewrite the Rules
March 2, 2013 by Josh Caldwell
I love getting the chance to chat with like-minded educators at conferences, and since I left NCCE last week I've been processing all of the great discussions and ideas. At the conference I presented about some of the classroom gaming I've been doing, but I also got so see a few other presentations on similar topics. It's clear to me from the discussions I had after these sessions that the concept of gaming in education makes sense to a lot of educators, but often the parallels between gaming and learning are not immediately obvious, particularly when trying to make the argument for classroom gaming to school leadership. To help other educators understand and articulate the value of gaming in the classroom (both through gamification and playing games) I thought I'd write a few articles to focus on some specific benefits of gaming. My hope is that you can use these as discussion starters in your schools and districts to help get the gaming ball rolling. Given my track record of updates to this blog (read: I'm bad at updates), I don't know how many of these I'll do. Baby steps.
Rules Are Fun!
One of the prime reasons that we play and enjoy games is the constraints of their structured rules. It may seem counterintuitive to say that rules are fun, but rules provide players a framework within which they can strive for success. No rules means there's nothing to challenge your progress. No challenge means no sense of achievement. In other words, we need rules and constraints for our successes to have any meaning. So why do the rules of a game produce an enjoyable and engaging experience that encourages progress, while the rules of school often produce a de-motivational experience that shuts down student progress? It all comes down to the perceived potential for success.
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Bringing Badges Together in Education
November 13, 2012 by Josh Caldwell
One of the core elements of my in-progress DIY classroom gamification suite is Badges (or Achievements, depending on your chosen terminology). Lately badges have gained wider acceptance as a tool not only to motivate learners, but also to display and acknowledge specific, validated skills. Instead of simply a letter grade to show some broad measure of success or achievement, badges provide students with a tangible record of their achievements – sort of like an educational resume.
While several e-learning sites have implemented badges (I just earned one from Codeschool.com for taking their Try Git course), most of those badges get stuck on the issuing site. My students use several such sites to learn various skills, and it does me no good if their badges are scattered across the internet, isolated from each other. If I'm going to use badges as evidence of learning and support for grades in my classes, then I need a them to live in a single comprehensive repository, somewhere that allows students to collect badges from a variety of sources and present them as a cohesive whole. In other words, I need digital sashes on which my students can sew their virtual merit badges. To that end, Mozilla has created the Open Badges Initiative. With support from the MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla is building a central badge backpack, where badges from a variety of issuers can be collected, verified, and displayed. Sites that are registered as badge issuers can then allow users to push any earned badges to their backpack, where it can be displayed along with other badges from other sites.
The Open Badges Initiative is still in beta, but I'm hopeful that in time sites like Edmodo, Code Academy, and Gamestar Mechanic will get on board. Recognition for informal and outside learning is a core element of my approach to gaming my classes, and the Open Badges Initiative might give me an easy and effective way to award students credit for the work they do inside and outside of school. My next step is figuring out how to get my Drupal Classroom Gaming project (man, I need a better name for that) tied in with Open Badges. My most recent hopeful find is the Open Badge-It sandbox module, but I've yet to get it working quite right.Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation
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Dupalized Gamification
October 29, 2012 by Josh Caldwell
I'm now well into the third run of my gamified Computer Tech elective, (have I really never posted about that? Bad blogger!) and I've reached the point where I really can't continue without some a system to automate many of the more time-consuming administrative tasks. By design, my class allows for a wide variety of student choice in regards to both what they want to learn and how they want to demonstrate their learning. In one semester I cover everything from computer hardware to multimedia design to programming and game design, and with such a broad range of topics, we can't delve terribly deeply as a whole class. In this system there are certain core lessons and assignments that are mandatory for everyone to ensure all students have a basic understanding, but when it comes to the in-depth learning, I want each student to choose what they want to learn within the scope of a given area of study. This requires that I have prepared a wide variety of materials, lessons, and assignments. More importantly, it requires that I have some sane and efficient method of presenting all of that stuff to each individual student as they progress through their chosen path. Oh, and somehow I have to equitably assess all of that variety and make it fit into a standard gradebook.
Currently I set up a separate Edmodo small group for each different quest choice and then manually assign students to their chosen quest. This creates the first bottleneck for the students, as they need me to assign them to a group before they can get work done. After students are in a quest group, there's a further bottleneck as I sequentially provide assignments. I've attempted preloading all of the assignments for a given quest, but that creates confusion as the students try and figure out what order to do them in, and whether they must complete all assignments in a quest path. Simply put, this system is a kludge at best, and it's preventing me from providing the kind of open learning experience I want. Beyond the issues with my choose-your-own-adventure style of learning, I've found it impossible to use badges and achievements consistently and meaningfully when they must be given manually. Here's what I need a classroom gamification system to do for me:
- Pre-load many assignments/quests for students to choose from
- Sort XP into different categories (either for gradebook weighting, or by skills/standards)
- Ensure mastery of basic topics before allowing progression onto advanced topics
- Automate progression through quests wherever possible
- Allow for teacher intervention before progress can be made
- Automate XP, badges, and achievements wherever possible
- Allow for teacher assignment or revocation of XP, badges, and achievements
- Hide or reveal quest paths at will
- Organize students by class
- Highly customizable reports (essential for grading)
Having looked in to the few existing educational gamification systems out there, the only one I've found that meets most of my requirements is 3D Game Lab. While 3D Game Lab looks great, it's not yet openly available, and even if I got in on the beta, I would be limited to 60 students. I need something that I can use with all of my students, and I need it yesterday! Enter Drupal.
Drupal is essentially a website building engine, a Content Management System. While it's not specifically designed for education, it is built to be almost infinitely extensible, which has led to a plethora of educational modules. Between the existing modules available, and my experience building custom Drupal sites for clients, I figure that this has got to be the way to go. I'm currently in the building and testing phase, using several modules to achieve my goals:
- Course module for individual quest paths. By creating my quests as mini courses, I should be able to manage student progress through their quests, allowing for both automated and teacher-initiated progression, as necessary. Signups can be either closely managed with codes, or left open.
- Organic Groups module for classes. This should allow me to create an manage class groups easily. I could also use Organic Groups for smaller quests or individual projects, when a Course might be overkill.
- User Points and its related modules for XP. Highly configurable and automatable, with User Points I can hopefully finally set up an XP system that works without excessive teacher involvement. User Points XP will correlate to student grade, and will be used to Level Up, unlocking new challenges, badges, and achievements.
- Certify or Certificate modules for major Achievements. One of these will provide students with Achievement certificates upon major quest completion. I like the progress tracking element of Certify, but I'm struggling to get pdftk set up on my shared server.
- Badges module for… badges.
- Rules module for automation.
- Views module for grading reports (among other views-tastic uses). To be honest, I haven't really fleshed this one out too much. I think it will take a bit of use to figure out just what I need out of reporting, but I'm sure between Views and " Panels, I can get it done.
I've got a lot of work ahead of me, but I hope that I'll come out with something that will both ease my administrative burden while allowing for an even greater amount of student choice and independence within my classes. I'm eager to see where this takes me, and if any of you out there are interested (either on the education or the Drupal side) please contact me. I'd love for this work to make an impact beyond my own little classroom.
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Engaging GTA Kids with Zork Graphics
April 6, 2012 by Josh Caldwell
Ever since I first encountered the Inform7 interactive fiction engine at GLS7 last year, it's been lurking in the back of my mind, looking for a way into the classroom. The idea of introducing my students to the text-based adventures that I loved as a kid excited me, but actually working it into my curriculum had to take a back seat to my revamped grading system, an entirely new computer technology course, and too many other focus-stealing priorities to list. I was about to give up on the idea until next year when Read Across America rolled in bringing both inspiration and opportunity.
My school has a fantastic community of readers, and as a staff we have dedicated Read Across America (March 2) to reading across all subjects. Every year I eagerly anticipate the day when students, dressed in their comfy cozies, carry around stacks of their favorite books. Teachers from every content area model a love of reading. Some classes allow students to read entirely independently, while others focus on content-specific reading, or readers theatre, or other literacy focused activities. All noble pursuits, but I needed something a bit different for my tech kiddos. Given that this was the first year for my computer tech class, I wanted something that the students would remember, something that would help them with their screen reading skills, but also something that would introduce them to kind of reading they likely hadn't experienced. The time for Interactive Fiction had come! I was ecstatic, dreaming of a maze of twisty little passages all alike, but I just wasn't sure if my students, the generation of realistic 3D graphics and visually astounding video games, would engage with a purely text-based game.
They did.
In fact, they LOVED it.
After a brief introduction to the genre and a basic list of key actions (N/S/E/W, Examine, Take, Ask, etc) I let the kids dive into Lost Pig, a short yet challenging IF game written in Inform. What followed was a period full of frustration and excitement, successes and failures, groans of agony and screams of elation.
I couldn't believe how absolutely enamored my students were – eyes glued to their screens as they navigated dungeons, encountered trolls, and solved puzzles. As the challenges got harder, students scurried about the lab trying to bounce ideas off each other. They were playing a game, but it was a game without 3D graphics, or rumblepacks, or really anything beyond elaborately complex textual descriptions. They were defeating their enemies not with hyperrealistic weaponry, but with words and creativity. At the heart of it they were reading, writing, and thinking. And they were loving it.
In fact, they loved it so much that they begged me to teach them to program IF.
I haven't gotten to the teaching portion yet, though I am pouring over the resources at Gaming the Past in preparation. I have, however, programmed my own game in Inform to get acquainted with the language. Not just a game, but an assessment tool as well, a quest that forces my students to apply their knowledge of computer hardware and networking to successfully escape in tact. It definitely needs some work and revision (comments/criticisms encouraged), but I hope you'll try your hand at my first text-based game/assessment – Escaping the Gnome's Cave.
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Is Gamification Really a Bad Word?
June 17, 2011 by Josh Caldwell
The first day of GLS7 brought with it plenty of spirited debate and intense arguments, as you are likely to have with any diverse group of passionate professionals, but none so hotly contested as the validity of gamification as an educational tool. Commonly associated with social media marketing, gamification seeks to engage consumers by incorporating game mechanics (most commonly achievements or badges) into otherwise boring or unexciting activities, such as filling out surveys – in essence, it's the Madison Ave version of hiding your dog's pill in a block of cheese. This arguably crass, commercial interpretation of gamification has tarnished the concept of using game mechanics in education for feedback or recognition. As a telling tone-setter in his Wednesday keynote speech, Eric Zimmerman characterized educational gamification as the beginning of an "unholy alliance" between marketers and learning researchers; certainly a reasonable call to be careful and cautious about with whom and for what reasons we share student information, but is that really reason enough to eschew gamification outright. Is gamefication so tied up in commercialism that we can't have a successful discussion about it in education without adopting new terminology? (more…)
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Gamify Your Class Website
May 9, 2011 by Josh Caldwell
Given my love of gaming and my interest in the motivational value of video games, I'm surprised (baffled, really) that I've only recently heard of gamification. It's not that the concept is unfamiliar to me, far from it, but this new (to me) terminology has opened the door to a whole world of people attempting to gamify education. Empowered by my new $5 word, I went on a marathon search bender to find out how people are gamifying their classrooms.
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Video Game Level Design Reflects Challenges in Education
May 5, 2011 by Josh Caldwell
Thanks to my PLN, I scan through a ton of education articles every day, parsing much more information than I could hope to encounter on my own. Sometimes, though, the best finds come when pursuing my other interests. Sometimes I just can't help but view everything in my life through my teacher-glasses.
Case in point, Shaun Inman's post about video game level design.
Good level design coaxes a player into first discovering then utilizing their abilities in a variety of situations. It requires balancing revelation and repetition.
Mentally I replace "level" with "course" and "player" with "student" – all of the sudden I'm back to thinking about my students (how do they get into my head like that???).
Shaun goes on to discuss the process of introducing and reinforcing basic skills and game parameters before presenting the player with tasks that require more sophisticated interactions. So, by gradually introducing new obstacles, players (students) are allowed to experience successful mastery of a skill before moving on to another. Then, just as players master the core skills, they've got to discover how those skills interact with other game elements. All of these building blocks have to be mastered and reinforced before a player can beat the game. You fail to master a skill, you don't move on, you don't win. The game doesn't keep going without you, instead it ask you to practice until you're reading to progress – at your own pace.
What does this approach reveal about the learning aspect of games? Game design necessitates a balance of success and challenge; games that are near-impossible to succeed are no fun (except to the die-hards) and games that are too easy provide no engaging challenge. You can't think about the final goal without deeply considering how to build in the frequent, achievable-yet-challenging goals that take you there.
The message to educators – we need to spend more time on the level design. We need to teach players to run, jump, and shoot before we toss them at the final boss. We need to allow players to discover the parameters, reinforce skills, and make their own way through the levels. We can't force a student a student onto level 2 when they haven't mastered the skills to beat level 1.
The article ends with some questions that will be very familiar to educators.
How long should each level be? With what frequency do I introduce new concepts and threats? At what stage do single threat introductory screens become patronizing rather than educational? Repetition is necessary for learning but at what point does the lesson become too repetitive?
I have a feeling that trial and error is the name of the game from this point on and a hope that experience will eventually start answering those questions before the handwringing sets in.
[via shauninman.com]
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Education Should Be More Like Video Games
April 14, 2011 by Josh Caldwell
Differentiated instruction, intrinsic motivation, meaningful rewards, achievable challenges, corrective feedback – sounds like a laundry list of traits associated with Good Teaching. It also sounds a whole lot like video games. Neurologist Judy Willis makes that case that video games can be not only powerful learning tools, but also a model for classroom instruction.
Video games with levels of play allow the player to progress quickly through early levels if the gamer already has the skill needed. Gamers reportedly make errors 80% of the time, but the most compelling games give hints, cues, and other feedback so players' brains have enough expectation of dopamine reward to persevere.
Try, fail, learn through feedback, succeed, achieve reward. So why are kids willing to persevere through a challenging game, but not through a challenging school assignment?
Good games give players opportunities for experiencing intrinsic reward at frequent intervals, when they apply the effort and practice the specific skills they need to get to the next level. The games do not require mastery of all tasks and the completion of the whole game before giving the brain the feedback for dopamine boosts of satisfaction.
Who has the time to provide the kind of constant, and automated, feedback and reward we get from video games? Willis suggests individual goal setting based on incremental level progression.
Free bar graphs downloaded from the Internet can be filled in by students as they record and see evidence of their incremental goal progress. In contrast to the system of recognition delayed until a final product is completed, graphing reveals the incremental progress evidence throughout the learning process.
Forget gold stars, I think I'll start providing Xbox Live style Achievements…
[via Edutopia]
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Edmodo Delivers on the Classroom-Without-Walls Promise
April 5, 2011 by Josh Caldwell
One of the great promises of educational technology is to "expand learning beyond the classroom walls." Now, that can mean a lot of things, but I've long thought of it as a way to transform my paltry 55 minutes a day into a 24/7, full access, virtual learning extravaganza (okay, that may be a bit of a naïve exaggeration).
To that end, I've tried all manner of tools to serve as my digital extension of my classroom, anything from full-fledged VLEs like Moodle, to wikis, blogs, and forums before finally discovering Edmodo. All have been successful to some extent, but nothing has come as close to my ideal of a true boundless learning environment as Edmodo; I'm regularly astonished by how much of their free-time my students are willing to spend on there! (more…)
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Some people excercise, some play music and for some, nothing works better than throttle juggling. Let us introduce you to a petrol head who believes that if there is one thing that makes life worth living, then it is doing what you love most. Akanksha Panwar, a business consultant by profession and an adventurist by heart has a bagful of achievements at such a young age that it will mortify many of us leading a torpor life.
Akanksha is an international mountaineer who has summited more peaks than the number of times you and I had a heavy workout at the gym. She has aced Mt. Renok, Mt. Frey, Mt. Deo Tibba, Mt. Kabru Dome, Mt. Nun, Mt. Kun, Mt. Satopanth and the list keeps on getting longer with time. She's still at it looking for more peaks to conquer. Wooah! Right? Well that's what at least our reaction was!
The first memories of her riding on a motorcycle come from her early day perched on her uncle's Yezdi, when she first caught the bug of motorcycling. From Yezdi to Royal Enfield, she sat on the tank along with her uncle imagining herself riding the bike soon. This was when she discovered her connection with motorcycles deciding that she will buy one for herself as soon as she would be able to.
As she grew older, her obsession with motorcycles encouraged her to buy her own Royal Enfield 350 Standard, round about when she started riding in 2007. It was this carburetted single that shaped a rider out of her. She had grown older admiring it, hence was an obvious choice as her first bike. After two years of riding, she started expanding her limits and went on to challenge herself covering 2,200 km in just 3.5 days. En route Tanot and Longewalaen road, Jodhpur, she successfully completed this challenge riding along with two other motorcyclists. This experience evolved her inner bustling spirit into being a more mature, more patient motorcyclist who learned things are not easy on roads and what it takes to overcome anything that life throws at you.
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But, since we bought this house for the space, we decided the space needed to be used, whether we felt settled in it, or not. We currently have multiple paint colors in multiple swatches all over the house (gotta see the paint in different lights, you know!), boxes and piles in some of the rooms, a couple of half-painted projects and a serious lack of curtains (thank goodness most of the windows had blinds!). It's clearly going to take us a significant amount of time to get everything the way we want it, so instead of wasting all that time, we've adopted a "come-on-in-to-our-work-in-progress" mentality.
Having the extra space in this home has given us the chance to do something we've never been able to do before: entertain a large group of people!
Maybe not that exciting for some, but we are thrilled! I mentioned in this post that I feel like we've really lost the art of building real relationships, taking time for people and living way too much of our lives online. Online is easier, it's safer. But it's not as real. You can't see facial expressions, hear a quiver in a friends voice or see joy in someone's eyes. Yes, it takes a little time and effort. But it's so much better!
We have some great friends, but busy lives still make it difficult to get together so we need to make a purposeful effort. And I've had some amazing vintage dishes that have just been begging to be put to use. So we decided a dinner party was in order!
Everyone who knows me knows I'm crazy about all things 50's. I love the music, love the clothes, love the color palettes, love, love the patterns and graphics, and even the culture of that era. Clearly, I had to do a 50's party. But not the "rock-n-roll" type, definitely the "classic family life" type.
That is my authentic Fransiscan Starburst dinnerware. I'm in love with it. A little. (I mean, as much as you should really care about dinnerware...)
I don't have any matching glassware, but luckily have a friend with a similar affinity for all things vintage so she graciously let me borrow hers.
Yes, if you come to my 50's party, I will make you wear vintage cat-eye glasses.
Several years ago I snagged some Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens magazines from the 50's and 60's at a garage sale for 25 cents each. They are so much fun to look at! Things have changed so much since then. There are no Facebook or Twitter icons to be found, but on the bottom of every ad is a little cut-out coupon that you can fill out and "mail in for more information."
Some of them are so politically incorrect it's almost unbelievable!
We laughed hysterically about this ad, titled "Why you need a kitchen extension phone." Reasons included things like: "so you won't burn dinner while you're talking on the phone outside the kitchen" and "so you can answer important calls and still stir your soup!"
Not everything has changed - Reynolds wrap is pretty much the same!
Clearly I'm out of practice with Jello molds. But despite it's looks, it actually tasted pretty decent.
My grandma informed me that shredded carrots and pineapple in the Jello was very authentic 50's, so we had to do it. We finished with homemade vanilla ice cream and fresh apple pie, so we made up for it.
We also had some vintage "inspired" sodas. I only chose ones made with REAL sugar, since of course no one used high fructose corn syrup back then.
Best of all, we got to spend an evening with great friends, just enjoying a meal and each other's company.
Jello, anyone? ;)


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Beautiful shabby chiffon rose trim in bubblegum Pink. Each rose measures approximately 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) across and come attached to netting. Either use it as a trim or as an applique accent to headbands, clips or clothing. There are 14 flowers in each yard.We have the following colours available as well:Black RedPinkHot PinkCanary YellowRoyal PurpleEmerald GreenRoyal Blue WhiteRobin's Egg BlueLavenderNavyNudeGunmetal GreyIvory


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Applebee's UNION CENTRE
Restaurant Hours
- Dine-In
- Online Ordering
- Carside To Go
- Takeout
- Delivery
- Catering
- Wi-Fi Available
What to Expect at Our Applebee's Restaurant in West Chester
Make Applebee's at 6084 Mulhauser in West Chester your neighborhood bar and grill. Whether you're looking for affordable lunch specials with co-workers, or in the mood for a delicious dinner with family and friends, Applebee's offers dining options you'll love. Ask about happy hour and our wide selection of beverages, beers and cocktails to quench your thirst, call ahead at (513) 942-4074 to find out what's on tap today.
In a hurry? Place your take out order using our To Go service and pickup your food without ever leaving your car.
Since 1980, we've been bringing great food and big smiles to neighborhoods all over the world, and today, to this Applebee's in West Chester. Among the many reasons customers return, our food is by far the most popular excuse to visit. Below is a list of popular menu items you'll find at our West Chester restaurant:
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This course is a continuation of EN.645.757 Foundations of Modeling and Simulation in Systems Engineering and provides in-depth exposure to the field of modeling and simulation (M&S) from the perspective of M&S as an essential tool for systems engineering. Advanced statistical methods are used to conduct requirements-driven simulation analysis and experimentation. The course provides treatment of advanced M&S topics, including verification, validation, and accreditation techniques; methods for simulation interoperability and composability; modeling of the system environment, both natural and man-made; modeling of system costs; and the establishment of collaborative M&S environments. The course also explores continuous and real-time simulation. Students are exposed to the techniques used to form conceptual models of mechanical (both translational and rotational), electrical, fluid, thermal, biological, and hybrid systems. The conceptual models are transformed into mathematical models and implemented in a modern simulation package. State-of-the-art tools are explored, and each student is given the opportunity to conduct a simulation study of a complex system. Each student will present a case study and complete a project. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to conduct or lead the development of the model of a complex physical system, model the input data, and analyze the results to support decisions at key milestones of a system's life cycle.
Course prerequisite(s):
EN.645.757 Foundations of Modeling and Stimulation in Systems Engineering
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Before booking anyone in the clinic, we have set up some pre-requisites. This pre-requisites will determine whether or not a patient can secure an appointment.
First, there will be a screening process over the phone for potential exposure to COVID-19 that a patient must pass to get an appointment, then patient must wear Face mask, and we will do a rapid test, that can be send home before the appointment or perform in the clinic to find their immunity, this 3 points below will be a critical component of booking patients:
Pre-screening over the phone .
Patients must wear masks .
Patients must have antibody test to determine C if they are clear, IgG if the patient have had the Covid-19 and now developed the antibodies or IgG if the patient has still the symptoms and need to self-isolate. (We can provide the test in the clinic)


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Baseball Research
Wash U Sports Analytics is proud to conduct research on America's pastime. From articles about the current state of the game and statistical analyses utilizing regressions to looking at sabermetrics, the club covers it all. Read below to see all of our work and check out our featured article!
Featured Article - Study: World Baseball Classic Increases Injury Likelihood
Adam Kaufman, Sam Linker, and Jacob Gross discovered that players who participate in the World Baseball Classic are more likely to end up on the disabled list the following MLB season. Read about their methodology and findings here.
Postseason Success
Check out an article by analyst Adam Kaufman on if how you play over the last month of the season matter come playoff time.
The Homerun Derby
Robbie Steirn does a statistical analysis of the Homerun Derby and whether or not the best power hitters really perform the best.
Moneyball All Stars
Jake Price takes a look at who the best sabermetric batters in baseball are. The top hitter is not named Trout, Harper, Stanton, or Cabrera.


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Michael's brother Nate introduces him to Jake Miller, an airport supervisor, who has been accepting small gifts from a family of exporters for doing them small favors. When they offered him a large gift for a larger and highly illegal favor, Jake turned them down and the threats began. Michael quickly learns that these "exporters" are really gunrunners trading in stolen military weaponry and that the patriarch of the family is a former Mossad officer who is not easily intimidated. To infiltrate the family Michael poses as an international arms dealer and befriends Eli's black sheep son, Ari. By convincing Ari that he could impress his dad by doing a huge deal with him, Michael is able to see the inner workings of the operation, disrupt it, and spook Eli and his family into leaving Miami.
Meanwhile the FBI is turning up the pressure on Sam to get something on Michael, so Michael has Sam "steal" his burn notice and turn it over. This draws the attention of people higher up the federal chain and a new round of intelligence officers are sent to Miami to check it out.


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Tender, sweet, baked stuffed pumpkin with a delicious mixture of rice, vegetables, nuts & cranberries. A beautiful centrepiece for your Thanksgiving or Halloween gathering!
Being relatively new to Canada, Thanksgiving is still a novelty for us. In England, although we kind of celebrate with harvest festivals etc, there is no national holiday like in Canada or the US. As you can probably imagine, I am always open to celebrations which involve copious amounts of food and drink so I now fully embrace Canadian Thanksgiving! An extra day off work and more time to spend with my family is an added bonus!
This will be my third Thanksgiving and my first vegan one so I have been busy creating a couple of great festive recipes to share with you. I am sharing this savoury recipe today and then later in the week will come a glorious dessert....
Vegan food is often stereotyped as being bland and boring. This magnificent looking Roast Stuffed Pumpkin centrepiece is anything but! Filled to bursting with a delicious mixture of rice, vegetables, nuts and cranberries, this pumpkin in all it's orange rotund glory is just beautiful.
This Roast Stuffed Pumpkin is deceptively easy to put together and can even be made in advance, wrapped in foil and stored in the fridge until you are ready to roast it. How great is that? A totally stress free day with no messy prep work!
Because of this it is also perfect if you are invited to a gathering where meat of some kind is going to be served up and you know there will not be much for you to eat. You can prepare this pumpkin, wrap it up in foil and take it along with you to bake and serve. Just watch those non vegans beg for a slice! You can have your portion and the rest can be used as a side for everybody else to share (if you can bear to part with it!)
As well as being great for Thanksgiving this Roast Stuffed Pumpkin makes a fantastic Halloween dinner centre-piece and if you love Halloween as much as me then you might want to check out this round up post which I wrote for Parade's Community Table. It features 20 Frightfully Spooktacular Vegan Halloween Recipes and is sure to please your little (and big) monsters!
I would love to see you serving my Roast Stuffed Pumpkin at your Thankgiving celebrations, so please share your pictures on Instagram (@avirtualvegan) and add the hashtag #avirtualvegan so I don't miss them! Or you can post a comment on my Facebook page. It would also be great if you could leave some feedback in the comments section below . I love to know what you think of my recipes and a positive comment helps others see that my recipes are reliable.
If you love pumpkin then you might also enjoy my Pumpkin, Pecan & Chocolate Granola Bars.
Roast Stuffed Pumpkin
- 1 medium pumpkin , or round squash, ( approximately 8 inch diameter - If your pumpkin is very different in size then please see the recipe notes)
- 1 cup cooked & cooled rice , any kind of rice is fine although there will be more flavour/texture if you use wild rice
- 2 teaspoon olive oil , optional
- 1 medium onion , chopped finely
- 3 large cloves garlic , chopped finely
- 10 mushrooms , chopped into small pieces
- 60g | 1/2 cup walnut pieces
- 60g |m1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1 large handful spinach , chopped
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- salt & pepper
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Toast the walnuts in a fry pan over a medium heat for a minute or two moving constantly.
- Remove from heat, pour into a small bowl and set aside.
- Sauté the onions and garlic in one teaspoon of the oil (in the same pan) until just starting to turn golden. If you wish to keep the recipe oil-free use a tablespoon or two of water to sauce instead.
- Add the mushrooms and cook for 1 minute longer then remove from the heat and allow to cool.
- Carefully cut the top off the pumpkin (about the top third).
- Set the top aside.
- If you can't see the seedy innards then just use a small sharp knife to cut a circle out of the flesh at the top and pull it out like a plug.
- Remove the stringy innards and discard. You can also discard the seeds although I recommend roasting them (see recipe notes).
- Brush the inside of the pumpkin with the remaining 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Omit if you want the recipe to be oil-free.
- Season the inside generously with salt and pepper.
- Place all the filling ingredients into a bowl and mix well, adding the sautéd onions, garlic and mushrooms.
- Spoon into the pumpkin cavity, pressing down well as you go. You want it packed in very tightly.
- Keep going until full.
- Place the pumpkin top back on.
- Wrap completely and tightly in tin foil. At this stage the pumpkin can be stored in the fridge for a day or two before baking if you want to get it ready ahead of time.
- Place on a tray and bake for around 1 hr 30 mins or until tender. Check it by pulling back some foil and inserting a knife or a fork into the side. If it is soft then it is ready.
- Remove from the oven and leave for at least 15 - 30 minutes before slicing.


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Scent of the spring
I woke up early in the morning, then I spent half of my day in the dance contest. I and my dance crew had a really good time together. Later on I and my friend Simona (One of the members of the dance crew) went to her house. We had really good time and at the second half of the day. We made some really funny pictures in the yard. I want you guys to see them.
Finally I can feel a real scent of the spring...
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Lupe Williams
Full Name: Guadalupe Williams
Nickname: Lupe
Known Relatives: Conchita (grandmother, last name unrevealed), Dwayne (husband)
Group Affiliations: None
First Appearance: ASH #118
Powers: None
Notes: Normal human, in her 50s, helps out by keeping an eye on neighbors' kids, such as Noah Gomez. Lives in Lexington, Nebraska Sector.
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High summer can often be seen as a slow period, when the heat and prospect of a holiday can make it hard to work up the effort to make news. In the Northern Hemisphere, summer is in full force, and luckily for us, news is also heating up in the world of oil.
This is the August (and slightly belated) version of The Oil Big Five, brought to you by our oil analysts and editors around the globe, from Houston to London to Singapore.
So, as we do every month, we present our list of the biggest oil news and topics for the month and ask you to share yours. How well do your big concerns or fascinations line up with what we've been watching lately? And what sort of outcomes do you foresee from the topics included here? Be sure to leave your comments below, or tell us what you think on Twitter (use the hashtag #oilbig5).
1. Nuclear deal with Iran
The US Congress is in the midst of a 60-day review that expires September 17 of the Iran deal, which offers Iran's oil sector sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling major portions of its nuclear program. Vocal opponents have come forward against the deal, although analysts expect it to pass, and it could set the stage for future US sanctions and oil policy. Various countries have said they would be willing to take on Iranian products, and companies are eyeing operations there, but much is still up in the air, as companies who sign contracts with Iran would have to wind down work if the US snaps back sanctions. Do you think the deal will make it through Congress, and whether it does or not, what do you foresee as the possible consequences?
2. Chinese teapot refiners win crude import rights
In July, China provisionally allocated more than 500,000 b/d of new crude import rights to some of the country's teapot refiners, letting them gain access to imported crude and perhaps finally be able to raise their utilizations, which have hitherto been typically under 50%. The Ministry of Commerce gave licenses to two independent teapot refineries, Dongming Petrochemical (which received its first crude cargo) and Beifang Asphalt Fuel. Refineries will need to sustain crude imports for three consecutive years after receiving import rights, failing which, the ministry will revoke the import licenses, so this will be something to watch over the next few years. Will this be a game changer for the refining sector, and will we see a big jump in crude imports from China in 2016? More immediately, how many more companies could be granted licenses later this year?
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3. US Gulf Coast alkylate
Alkylate, used to boost octane for premium gasoline (to fill luxury vehicles, for example) was scarce on the US Gulf Coast at the end of July, when barges matched a record differential over pipeline gasoline at 65 cents/gal. Strong prompt demand meant heard offers for alkylate reached a record 71 cents/gal over gasoline during the first week of August, and were as high as 70 cents/gal over gasoline this week. Additionally, on August 11, USGC alkylate drew nearest to reformate since the assessments began in December 2012. (Reformate is traditionally the most valuable blendstock, at 1 RVP and 100 octane.) The spread narrowed to 1.75 cents/gal between the two, and the slightly lower-priced alkylate was holding value due to its versatility. "It can really do anything," one refined products trader told Platts. "I think there is stuff out there that is 80% alkylate." Will it really do anything, including holding its strength through the rest of the summer?
4. Singapore refining margins
In mid-July, the Singapore cracking margin against Dubai crude hit a near nine-month low under pressure from middle and light distillate cracks, closing at $2.04/b on July 16. The last time the refining margin was lower was October 29, 2014, at $1.97/b. A glut of gasoil, high freight rates, weak demand for jet fuel and kerosene, increased refining capacity, and limited gasoline demand all played a part in felling refining margins. During July, Singapore oil product/Dubai cracking margins averaged $2.25/b, less than half the level seen in the previous month. Will that turn around in August or in the fall?
5. Oil prices heading south
In July, we marveled at how much oil prices had changed over the previous 12 months. Now, it appears that prices have changed direction again, weakening further. It raises the same question: Are we at a new bottom, or just passing the $50/b mark on the way to an even lower new normal price? The market is still heavily oversupplied, and depending on what happens with Iran, even more could be online in the next year or so. Dated Brent is back below $50/b. The People's Bank of China devalued the yuan twice just this week, and the NYMEX September crude futures fell $1.88 to settle at $43.08/b Tuesday as ICE September Brent settled $1.23 lower at $49.18/b. Do you think this is a temporary dip, or another, more serious blow to prices?


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Oh yes, it's that time of the year again when US sports broadcasters ESPN crowns the worlds best athletes in LA!
Nominees for the category Female Action Sports this year were Jamie Anderson (snowboarding), Kelly Clark (snowboarding), Carissa Moore (surfing), and Kaya Turski (skiing).
And the winner is… our former cover girl JAMIE! Congrats girl and keep on ripping as hard as you do!!


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One of the walls in my grandmother's living room had protruding plaster bulges. I watched them dance and wondered which concert or country or book they represented in my grandmother's life. I pictured them grow and shrink with each remembering of a memory as it came up in her breathing and travelling thoughts. What if she picked up that small souvenir violin she bought in Prague and in response, her wall would hum along with the battery-powered toy? What if the wall remembered her life as she did?
I pictured two sweaty painters in tank tops come into her apartment with buckets, starting to throw balls of wet plaster onto the wall. I pictured my grandmother laughing with them and smiling to herself. I thought how lucky the painters were to get paid to throw things at walls and change them and bring them to life. How lucky they were to laugh with my grandmother and cool down in her apartment filled with classical music and air conditioning.
My grandmother's life has lost its breath, along with its music and memories, so what does her wall remember now? Has it receded into itself to be flat like all the other walls?


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Honda Civic 2006 1.8 ABS, VSA, TCS lights on.
This car has showed various faults as well as those systems above. The wiring diagram shows a 26 pin plug on the ABS pump but the one on the car has 46 of which 21 are actually used. I have gained access to the wire side and checked the for voltage, ground and measured continuity between the wheel sensors etc., all appears to be ok except the K-line which is open circuit. Running a jumper lead between the K-line terminal on the ABS connector, and using the Pico breakout box, connected it to pin 7 on the DLC, the K-line, did not turn the lights are off. Keeping the jumper lead connected and using the scan tool I cleared the codes but the lights stay on even when the scan tool shows the codes to be cleared. During all this the lights on the Can H & L flash on the breakout box so I assume they are ok.
I Know the ABS is working as I have tested it on a wet road and the car pulled up straight and the solenoids and valves could be heard working. This would indicate the fault lies in the diagnostic side rather that a fundamental fault.
My knowledge of the system is not that good and the lack of descent wiring diagram doesn't help so I do not know how many other modules are involved with the K-Line side. Any help would be appreciated. After successful repair I will leave a report for others and a wiring diagram and pin numbers.
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Reservations only
Nestled at the back of the hotel is the reservations only bar, Punch Room, a fumed-oak paneled den inspired by the comfort of manor house libraries and nineteenth-century London's private clubs, yet a modern reincarnation. As the name suggests, the craft cocktail focus is the Punch Bowl. For a single person or a group punch bowl, guests can order one of ten carefully crafted specialty punches including the gin infused EDITION Punch with jasmine tea and oak moss. Carefully curated music from vintage soul, Ragtime, and Doo-wop to Ska and Blues as well as impromptu musical performances complete the experience.
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Hi guys,
Some Easter beauties from Karen and Joy today and what is awesome about this???? The stamps used are ALL ON SALE!!!!!!!!!!
Joey used Easter Dumpling and sentiment
Karen used Cindy Bunny and sentiment
Beautiful work ladies and thanks for creating them for us.
Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow for Hostess Monday.


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Tower Bridge Road was originally called Bermondsey New Road and ran into Bermondsey Street, until Tower Bridge was built in 1894. The road was then extended past Bermondsey Street and ran all the way to Tower Bridge.
Interesting Fact: The total cost of constructing the Tower Bridge was £1,184,000, which is equivalent to £100 million as of 2013!
Tower Bridge Road was home to an abundance of antique shops along part of its length. Bermondsey Square hosts the famous antiques market every Friday, locally known as 'Bermondsey Market', but is officially named as 'The New Caledonian Market', which originated from Caledonian Road, Islington in 1950. The thriving market stretched from Bermondsey Street and along Tower Bridge Road (this can be seen in the video below 'Tower Bridge Road Market 1931').
Bermondsey Abbey (1082-1538) which was referred to in the Domesday Book and was founded as a Priory of the order of Cluny existed on the present site of Bermondsey Square, Grange walk and Abbey Street. St Mary Magdalen churchyard which runs along Abbey St, Long lane and Tower Bridge Road was once a part of the Abbey. St Mary Magdalen is a Grade II listed parish church and is the oldest building in Bermondsey. (For more detailed information visit stmarysbermondsey.org.uk)
Towards the southern end of the High Street lies a collection of independent shops, restaurants and a pub. There are many well established independent businesses here, such as the famous pie and mash shop, M. Manze and one of London's oldest tandoori restaurants, Tower Tandoori.
There were many big name businesses on or just off Tower Bridge Road, these include Hartley's Jam Factory in Rothsay Street, which employed over 2000 people from the area, Sarson's Vinegar in Tanner Street / Tower Bridge Road and Hovis Bread.
Trocette Mansions was home to Trocette Cinema and the Horse Shoe Public House.
If you would like to tell us about the history of Tower Bridge Road, please get in touch!