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Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.
There are days and nights when I remember my dad (mom too but this is about dad). My father was a wonderful man of God. I would imagine that some preacher's kids get tired of hearing their father or mother preach. My wife often says she has heard (after 39 of 41 years of shared ministry and marriage) everything – several times – from me (LOL).
I never grew tired of hearing my dad preach. He had a way of making the Gospel real and down to earth so that even a child could understand what he was sharing. I remember – even as a teen – sitting in the balcony of the church or on the back pew (see – even as a youth I was a good Methodist – LOL) – and listening to my dad preach and being moved – being touched.
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This week I moved in to a small house/apartment in Kristianstad, where I will be working this fall. Anders will also live here some days and then we still have our small home at the island of Aspö too. Yes, it's very different from our traveling life over the past years, and still this is quite a different way of living compared to our own house and all of that.
When driving the car I have borrowed, filled with stuff from our storage, I remembered the wonderful feeling of deciding to live with less stuff, and not become to eager to have a "perfect" home – it becomes less complicated. And with less things, you also make less of a mess. There simply aren't enough things to make that big of a mess any more!
So, of course when staying in a place over time, it's comfortable to have a good set of basics for cooking, clearing etc. But it's also lots of fun to create and make a small place work out with second hand furniture, to only bring out what's absolutely neccesary and what you actually use, or know you will use in a short future.
These insights and perspective on what's actually needed and how much luxury we live in have gotten stronger after traveling to countries where people live quite different from us in the West.
Ok, time to get some sleep!
Enjoy your small and big luxury in life.

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The Ten Commandments
"You Shall Not Steal"
Exodus 20:15
If you have stuck with me over the last 8 newsletters, you will know that these commandments are rarely taken at face value. The Eighth Commandment is no exception. Of course it is a sin to break into our neighbors' home and take what is not ours; but there are other forms of "stealing" that would fall under this commandment.
- Not paying our bills is stealing from whom we owe (Leviticus 19)
- Wasting time at work steals from our employers
- Creating a shoddy product and selling at high value is stealing (James 5)
- Taking advantage of the goodness of others is stealing (2 Thess 3:10-12)
- Not tithing is stealing (Malachi 3:8-10)
- Gaining wealth or provisions without working for them (Exodus 20:9)
- Taking another's idea for your own
We are commanded to "work" (Exodus 20:9) and be "content with our wages" (Luke 3:14). We are not to rationalize our sin by thinking that "our wages should be higher so it is ok to steal from our work place" or think that we can "steal from someone who is rich because they will never miss it."
Jesus describes Satan as a "Thief" in John 10. Perhaps one reason why God hates thieves so much is because Satan is a thief of men. Stealing them away through deception and dishonesty.
What Did Jesus say about the 8th Commandment?
- Matthew 19:16-22-The rich young ruler was sent away without salvation.
- Acts 20:35-It is better to give than to receive
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In 1987 the church constitution was voted on and accepted, and we purchased 2.8 acres at 308 Kansas St. S.W. for $43,500, as a building site in Orting. In 1984, the Lord enabled us to borrow $100,000 from N.W. Baptist Home Mission's Revolving Fund for what is now our old sanctuary/fellowship hall. We broke ground in January of 1985. The people showed they had a mind to work.
In May of 1987, our beloved Pastor Dean Bousman read a letter of intent to resign on July 31, with a willingness to stay if needed 'till another man of God was called. Pastor Dean Bousman felt the leading of the Lord to take his family and continue in church planting. In June of 1987, we asked Dale Gore to be our next pastor. He came on the staff as our pastor on Aug. 1, 1987 and has continued with the same spirit of reaching out to the lost, and helping new believers to grow in the Lord. At the time, we dedicated our newly built church facilities in 1988.
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The much anticipated uniform-and it's even his favorite color!
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Action shot. Evan is in the blue
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- I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world alone, I do not hate you... and alone in this world, you do not hate me.
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Appearing in "People of Other Lands"Edit
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The League meets with Campion Bond and are told of the airborne object that arrived in England this morning. Mina asks if it could be a Military Intelligence project and Bond assures her that it is nothing of the kind. Bond mentions that the astronomer royal Stent believes it is life from another planet, but rejects that notion. The capsule opens to reveal an alien with multiple tentacles. The League and the onlookers back away from the pit containing the capsule and alien, wary of any danger it may present. The Royal Astronomer and a party of four approach the alien waving a white flag. The alien disintegrates the five people and emits some sort of heat ray that fries the crowd assembled on the outside of the pit.
The League takes cover and the flames cause Mr. Jekyll to change to Mr. Hyde. Mina calms Hyde down and the group returns to their inn for the night. Mina and Quatermain talk out on the porch and see the arrival of British troops. They return inside and discuss the day with the other members of the League. Griffin, the invisible man, sees another alien cylinder streaking through the night sky and Quatermain remarks that it looks as though it is heading toward Woking. While the others sleep, Mina lets herself into Hyde's room, where the beast is sitting up on the bed, doing nothing in particular. He hears her and invites her into the room. They sit and talk about their friendly relationship, something Hyde lacks with the others.
Meanwhile, Griffin has stolen into the pit and begins communicating with the aliens by drawing pictures in the sand and telling them that he will help them because he wants to be on the winning side.
- The events of this issue faithfully occurs in The War of the Worlds: the Martian falling from the cylinder into the pit, and the man trying to crawl out of the pit occurs in Chapter Four of the novel; the narrator himself (who is uncanny resembles to H.G. Wells) talking to his neighbor, the expedition, with the lead man waving the flag, the group of bystanders, and the Heat-Ray occurs in Chapter Five; the soldiers, the "buggering noise and clanging from the Common," and the descending second cylinder occurs in Chapter Eight.
- The new M Campion refers to is Mycroft Holmes, the brother of Sherlock Holmes, who took over as the new M in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #6.
- The Bleak House, where the League are staying is an actual coaching inn and hostelry, public house, etc., that has stood on the Woking to Weybridge road, the A320, for several centuries, and in fact, may have inspired Charles Dickens' Bleak House. Kevin O'Neill had went to Horsell Common, trying to find the sand pits, and rested at the Bleak House. He noted that the illustration of the interior and exterior of the Bleak House is based on pure invention and that the present inn was rather more recent than was called for.
- Allan Quatermain's "this whole affair reminds me of a dream I once had" is a reference to his dream in Allan and the Sundered Veil from the first League miniseries.
- Major Henry Blimp is a reference to Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character who was created by Sir David Alexander Cecil Low and appeared in various newspapers around the world in the 1930s, beginning with the London Evening Standard. Blimp seen here is a younger version who's yet to be promoted.
- Griffin is seen holding a newspaper that comes from The War of the Worlds. In that novel is the following passage: "A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM MARS." and "REMARKABLE STORY FROM WOKING".
- Bond refers to Mycroft Holmes as not traveling much is a part of Sherlockian canon that Mycroft does not like to travel.
- The "Prussians" that Bond refers to were the Germans, rivals to the British Empire at the turn of the 20th century.
- The head of Campion Bond's cane has the Morse Code for "007."
- Blimp's expression "It'll all be over come Monday morning" is likely a reference to the expression "It will all be over by Christmas," which many British told each other in the opening days of World War One. A a young Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was actually quoted in August 1914 as saying, "Fortunately the whole thing will be over by Christmas." In WotW, those people who had not seen the Martians themselves had an overly optimistic impression of how easily the Martians would be defeated. Near the beginning of Chapter Nine of WotW, the narrator's neighbor "was of the opinion that the troops would be able to capture or to destroy the Martians during the day (i.e. the Sunday following the first use of the Heat Ray)."
- The game that Captain Nemo and Allan Quartermain are playing with the matchsticks is an answer to a riddling game.
- The exchange between Hyde and Mina is reminiscent of Sydney Carton's farewell to Lucy Darnay in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
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- The entire ceremony was held at BC Place, which is home to the CFL's Lions and isn't to be confused with GM Place, which hosts Canucks' games and is, for these Olympics, being called "Canada Hockey Place." (Not a joke.) I don't know what it is that Vancouverites have against descriptors, but it appears Place for both of these, well, places over less limiting nouns such as Stadium, Venue, Park, Building, and Structure. At least Place did beat out the only noun that could be more vague, Thing.


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If you read my blog regularly, you'll know by now that social media is one of my favourite topics to chat about. One of my main focuses for this year is to see how I can keep my reach growing for my blog and social channels with meaningful interactions on social media.
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Tell a Story
I know i've shared this tip time and time again across all my platforms that i'm active on. The importance of telling a story through your social media can make a massive difference to reach and engagement. It's no good just merely speaking at your audience, as though you're using a fog horn, thats not the right to engage or even encourage a response.
When you're creating a campaign or even a single post, the story behind the content is just a important. Always think about how you want to represent yourself as a brand and that should lead you to telling a more in-depth message.
Once upon a time, it was harder to convey this on twitter but now, thanks to the 280 update its easier to do this. So spend time , learning how to create content to suit that new character limit and make sure its inclusive and inviting to the audience you're trying to reach.
Strategically engage and comment
Now this may seem logical but probably one of the most neglected strategies within social media. We all spend a lot of time planning out our own content, scheduling and monitoring the results. But ask yourself how often do you really spend interacting with other account online? Its important to remember that you can engage with just any old account online and expect to get results.
NO! Just no! it's important to remember to interact with brand and accounts that are similar to yours and that you feel have the same target audience as yours. I always aim to leave at least 1 genuine comment for 10 accounts each week. I also always aim to leave this one their most recent photo. Why you ask? Well, partly because I make sure to follow account that I'm genuinely interested and want to comment on, so its not forced, BUT also because commenting will give your some exposure to a new audience that is already interacting with content that is similar to mine already.
Just keep going. Whatever schedule you have, just make sure you stick to it. Audiences like to have a pattern of content to keep coming back to, content that is sporadically and spontaneous is difficult for your core audience to follow. Unless of course your promote the hell out of it, each to their own but personally I feel thats overtime work that can be well avoided if you plan ahead of time. Something I've been fairly successful at doing at the beginning of 2018, (thanks to Janet Murrays Media Planner)
Spend time creating a schedule, creating content thats all related and content that you can link across the board, it will tremendously help you in the long run and stop you from having massive breaks and can seriously setback your progress with engagement and reach. Lastly set goals, keep yourself working towards a target to surpass! I've started this process in January and suddenly I've pass four before we were even half way through the month – insane!


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Flood Alert
In this lesson, students devise their own flood warning device and create a technical brief for an international audience using recognised circuit symbols. They also consider how people both here and in Nepal can best prepare for floods. Heavy monsoon rains can devastate communities in Nepal. The severe flooding...
Floating Garden STEM challenge
This challenge, from Practical Action, requires students to design and build a model structure that will enable farmers to grow crops even in an area that may become flooded. A floating garden, built on a base of aquatic weeds, is a cheap and sustainable way of allowing people to grow vegetables. The resource can...
Energy revision cards
Resources which can be used to enhance a lesson on renewable energy or for homework activities. Includes:
- A loop game activity with all the key words and facts needed at KS4
- A renewable energy word search and the answer sheet
- Crossword to test knowledge of key terms around energy at...
Energy - technical briefs
These technical briefs focus on energy access as a key element in lifting people out of poverty. In remote locations small-scale renewable energy technologies that can be used include micro-hydro, solar, wind and biogas.
Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are...
Eco-design web
The Eco-design web is a useful tool to help students' analyse an existing product or design. It can also be used to indicate areas of the product that can be redesigned to improve its environmental sustainability.
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- Access a range of global contexts including water and sanitation, food security and climate action in which to...
Bridges and Structures
These activities from Cre8ate maths sets challenges which require pupils to be constructive, creative and think strategically about simple structures.
Working in groups of 3 or 4, students create structures from a single sheet of A4 paper, the tallest free-standing tower and the longest possible span between...
Cool Creations: Design a Tower
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About the
The idea of compiling an international directory involving music and music education institutions was the brainchild of the late Professor Sir Frank Callaway, former Honorary President of the International Society for Music Education and one of its founders in 1953. The directory is a considerably expanded development of the earlier 1968 UNESCO International Directory of Music Education published in conjunction with the International Society of Music Education (ISME).
In this on-line edition, compiled and edited by Graham A R Bartle, there are details on the higher music and music education institutions in 225 countries, with material on over 3,100 institutions, giving contact details, the programs they offer, library and museum collections they hold, as well as any unique aspects of their courses or their campuses.
Many institutions are universities or conservatories that are regarded as equivalent in status to universities; some are teachers' colleges. There is a mix of government institutions and private music schools, with the emphasis throughout on post-secondary music training. Where no such training opportunities exist in a number of countries the entries include the highest level of music training available within that country. The current political situation in several countries has meant that verification of material has not always been possible. In these cases the last known information has been included.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information for each institution. Readers are invited to check the details of institutions that they know and suggest changes to the information by contacting the webmaster.


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Only 2 million people in this country own horses, so just by selling a horse-specific product you've screened out more than 99% of the population. Does it make sense then to go on a mass market medium like Facebook? Pamela Carr thinks so. Carr, who works as a senior marketing manager for ecommerce at the Chicago Tribune Media Group, is working on a side project called Alleva-Wave, a new business …Read More
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5 Hidden Benefits of Social Media Marketing
If you're among the business owners or executives who got interested in social media marketing because of its potential to deliver new customers, you may be overlooking some important "hidden" benefits of social media marketing. Overlooking these benefits can be a problem, because it usually takes time to build your social media presence to the point that you can link it reliably to sales. These "hidden" benefits, however, often kick …Read More
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People make mistakes, and so do businesses. Social media marketing is one place where it's all too easy to make mistakes that can have long-lasting effects on your social media strategy or company reputation. There are many kinds of mistakes that can hurt your social media strategy, but here are five that can actually ruin a social media strategy. They're easy to make, and difficult to overcome. Luckily, they're also …Read More


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'The OA' Renewed for Second Season at Netflix
Netflix's polarizing drama The OA is returning.
The streaming giant announced Wednesday that it has renewed the Brit Marling starrer from Zal Batmanglij for a second season. A return date and episode count were not immediately available.
The drama, whose logline was kept under wraps and had a surprise pre-holiday debut Dec. 16, launched to mixed reviews. THR's Daniel Fienberg called the mysterious drama a "failed, but not wholly worthless, experiment in TV autoerotism."
Created and exec produced by Marling and Batmanglij, who directed, the show starred Marling as Prairie Johnson, a woman who resurfaces after going missing for seven years. Now called "The OA," she can see despite being blind before she disappeared.
The eight-episode drama landed at Netflix following a multiple network bidding war and marked the indie darling (Sound of My Voice) duo's third collaboration and first for TV. Plan B's (12 Years a Slave) Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner executive produce alongside Anonymous Content's (True Detective, The Knick) Michael Sugar.
"From the very beginning when we were on our own daydreaming a story, we definitely thought how can we construct something that, many seasons out, has a satisfying end? So there is an end and there is an answer to every riddle and nothing is done to just be sound and fury going nowhere," Marling told THR when asked about the show's future beyond season one. "It all goes somewhere. And as to whether or not we get to tell that, I certainly hope that we do. There is a place that season two already begins in our minds and a place in which it ends."
The OA joins a rapidly growing Netflix roster that includes House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, the third and final season of Bloodline, Stranger Things, The Get Down, The Crown and more.
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West of DFW is alive with tornadoes and massive hail. Quite exciting. If it falls apart before it gets to Irving I may cry.
Also, damn that's some big hail stones.
I feel bad sometimes about loving bad weather so much as its presence generally means misfortune for people, but I can't help but love it. This is a tornado currently in the Millsap area. It's deadly but so lovely.
Looks like my area is going to be fine, but DeCordova got beat all to hell. The Cleburne area is getting smacked around too. Eep.


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Sam Weston is attempting the impossible: trying to educate our lawmakers about technology and its effect on the workforce. Okay, maybe it's not impossible, but so far, it's been an uphill battle as automation and artificial intelligence have continued to take jobs from people who need them. There's no support for those people, and Sam's mission is not just to raise awareness; he aims to help those lawmakers by giving them context with awareness, and a plan to make things better.
- Sam was born in New Zealand and began his career in politics there, but it wasn't long before he came to the US to become a political consultant. From there, he stepped into PR and then into an Internet agency where he participated in the early days of the Internet and saw its impact on business.
- The Internet has been great for business. We all know this. But there's a hidden truth that no one wants to talk about. Businesses have been growing but it's at the expense of employees, and the Internet explosion threw fuel on the fire. Consider: Facebook changed the world, but have all the changes been good?
- No doubt you've seen a million different promises that if you fix THIS ONE THING, you'll fix work for yourself. It's the perfect marketing pitch. But according to Sam, fixing one problem won't fix all of work. In fact, a lot of what people say is broken about work isn't really broken at all. Case in point: communication.
- So, if all these problems are just symptoms, then what is the actual problem? It's simple: no one is fixing work for employees. All the consultants, programs, and courses are trying to fix work for the company instead. Most employers are happy with the way things are and Sam reveals what's really on their minds when they think of fixing work. If you're a cynic, you'll agree.
- As always, there's an underlying problem here: the interests of a company are its shareholders. And that interest will always be diametrically opposed to the interest of the employee who asks, 'how can I get paid what I'm worth?' A different sort of problem for those who don't struggle to earn enough to live is finding purpose and meaning in their work. They wonder if they're wasting their lives.
- The amount of change rushing toward the workforce is massive. With the advent of AI and technology, more and more jobs will be disappearing. Importantly, this second rush of automation won't just affect automotive industries and factory workers; it's the white-collar workers who will bear the brunt of this coming change. Laurie asks a scary question, 'is the future of work NOT work?' Sam believes the jury is out on whether the number of jobs AI creates will be more or less than the number of jobs it destroys. But here's the parallel issue: no one is talking about the jobs it will destroy.
- We already don't have a great track record of supporting people whose jobs were either outsourced or taken by robots, and it brings up an interesting discussion around politics (of course) and how the Democratic party has become more about the status quo instead of for the working class. You'll want to hear what Sam and Laurie have to say about political capital and what it means for change. Do you agree?
- With all the gloom and doom of business interests and the AI tidal wave that's about to hit, we have to wonder what's standing in the way of truly fixing the systemic problems of work? Sam's response is so dead-on that you'll be nodding along: our policymakers are technology-illiterate. They don't understand the problem or how to fix it.
- According to Sam, we are drowning in awareness of problems, but we aren't drowning in change. This is what he's dedicated himself to fixing. If we can present the problems that technology brings, give it context, and make it matter to policymakers, that is a HUGE step forward in heading off the issues before they arise.
- Another problem with political leaders is that they're having the same arguments they've been having for nearly 60 years. They lack a real vision for the future, so their policies don't encompass that. Whether you like Elon Musk or not, the man knows how to look toward the future, and both policymakers AND business owners can learn from him.
- It might not only be up to policymakers and business owners to create a vision for the future. In the past, families like the Rockefellers and Carnegies have done amazing work, so where are the new millionaires and billionaires who are creating real, positive change in our world? (If that's you, Sam has some pointed advice that can help you make almost immediate change and why you shouldn't focus on foundations.)
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Green Acres offers quality modern homes within an environment that promotes a comfortable retirement
Green Acres is situated in Traralgon in the centre of Gippsland in the Latrobe Valley. It is the largest city in the area being the regional centre and offers a relaxed lifestyle for retirement. While Traralgon is close enough to Melbourne to visit the major events and attractions, it is also far enough away from the hustle and bustle.
Why Green Acres Traralgon?
Traralgon offers a diverse range of activites for retirees with great sporting clubs like the Traralgon Bowls Club and the Traralgon Golf Club.
The proximity to the Latrobe Regional Hospital, a multitude of specialists and GP's, dental, optical, osteopaths and massusses; Green Acres truly allows you to be at ease with your health.
The area has outstanding shopping centres and national chain stores, while the cafes, dining and fine restaurants provide many options from the budget minded to the lavish.
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A Pennsylvania House committee will consider legislation on Tuesday that would ban texting while driving for all drivers and also ban younger drivers from using cell phones when behind the wheel.
At a news conference, House Transportation Committee Chairman Joe Markosek, D-Allegheny, said his committee will take a vote on a bi-partisan-backed bill (House Bill 2070) that would make texting while driving a primary offense, which would allow police to stop a driver observed texting while traveling down the road.
Violators would face a $50 fine and fines would be doubled if the offense happens in a school or work zone or in an emergency response area.
"We are all one text from eternity," Markosek said, referring to the number of texting while driving related deaths that have occurred on Pennsylvania roadways including the Oct. 3 crash on the Market Street Bridge that killed two and injured one.
The legislation would allow drivers to text if stopped due to traffic congestion and the motor vehicle is in park or neutral. It also provides exceptions if the driver is using the device to contact 911.
Rep. Josh Shapiro, D-Montgomery, supports the measure and calls it a great starting point. But Shapiro said he would offer an amendment to the bill on the House floor to extend the ban to handheld cell phones, a cause he has championed.
Markosek said his bill seeks to discourage municipalities from enforcing separate ordinances on this issue to avoid a patchwork of legislation. Philadelphia already has a ban on texting while driving and other cities, including Harrisburg, are considering similar bans.


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Six of the best on Sunday: Life, near-death and reality - and, well, chocolate
Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from Australian Community Media, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or here to forward it to a friend.
We've handpicked some Sunday reading in the hope you get a little quiet time today. From a memorial service at an Indigenous community near Lightning Ridge to fake guns (well, maybe) and politicians borne from the real world - it's all here. Oh yes, and a basketball tour de force and an article about a chocolate factory.
Something for everyone? Well yes, quite possibly.
NEWCASTLE HERALD: The long journey to honour 'the coloured diggers'
John Paul Young, his long-time keyboardist and friend, Warren "Pig" Morgan, and percussionist Paul Kirtley had travelled more than 700 kilometres from their base at Lake Macquarie, driving across the vast sun-parched plains, to reach Goodooga.
By the measure of time, the journey had taken the musicians back more than 80 years, to the Second World War. They had travelled so far to attend a memorial service to honour two local men, Harold West and George Leonard. Read on
THE EXAMINER: Welfare-to-parliament: Tasmania's battler politicians
Meet the Tasmanian politicians drawing on lived experiences of struggle. When it comes to welfare, the experiences of te state's politicians overlaps that of the general population: it's been a lived experience of roughly a quarter.
Out of today's crop of 17 Tasmanian federal representatives, at least four have spoken openly about their lived experiences with government benefits. Read on
BALLARAT COURIER: What is it like to experiment with chocolate all day?
How exactly do you take an instantly recognisable and distinct flavour like a hot cross bun and squeeze it into an M&M?
Ballarat's Mars facility is home to an award-winning research and development team, which has come up with several inventions to bring new angles to its chocolates - that includes the hot cross bun M&Ms. Read on
THE LAND: 'I survived two crashes in one day'
Samantha Longmore considers herself lucky. Not because she survived two car accidents on the same day, or that she has no feeling down the right side of her body.
"I still think, Christ almighty, who hated you that day?"
Read more about Samantha and listen to her chat with reporter Lucy Kinbacher: right here
ILLAWARRA MERCURY: Inside LaVar Ball's first week in Wollongong (it's very Aussie)
He is the controversial patriarch of the Ball family.
Eldest son Lonzo is a bona fide NBA basketball star who was an LA Laker before he was traded recently to the New Orleans Pelicans. His youngest son LaMelo has just joined the Illawarra Hawks as their star signing under the National Basketball League's Next Stars program. Read on
NORTHERN DAILY LEADER: But the 106 replica guns for sale looked 'toy-like'
Police seized what they say are 106 replica firearms, which they allege are prohibited items. But, there's more.
"They're not machine guns or firearms that can be used in a bank robbery," the accused's solicitor said. "They're colourful in colour, lightweight; they're toy-like ... for comic people." Read on
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Another case of hate crime has been reported in Kansas, where an Indian doctor was stabbed to death. One of his patients has been arrested as a suspect, according to police. Achutha Reddy's death in Witchita on Wednesday is the second killing this year of an Indian in Kansas, IANS reported.
The first hate crime was the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in February.
The 21-year-old man, who was arrested as a suspect in Reddy's killing, was identified as Umar Rashid Dutt in jail booking records, according to TV station KAKE. The attack on Reddy, 57, began in his clinic and ended in a nearby lane as the fleeing doctor was chased down by the assailant, the police said.
Reddy, who introduced 'absolute yoga' in his treatment, was mourned by fellow doctors and the community, who held him in esteem. Police Lieutenant Todd Ojile said yesterday in a media briefing video posted on the Wichita Police website that the office manager of Reddy's Holistic Psychiatric Services heard a disturbance in the doctor's office on Wednesday evening around 7 pm and saw the assault taking place when he went in.
The manager tried to stop the attack allowing Reddy to flee, but he was chased by the assailant and killed in the second assault in an alley behind the clinic, Ojile said. He said that Reddy had several stab wounds and was pronounced dead by the emergency medical team that responded.
The suspect was arrested near a country club a short time later when a security guard alerted police to a man covered with blood in a car, Ojile said. He was still in custody yesterday morning and Ojile said the case was likely to be given to the district prosecutor's office this afternoon.
Pending the filing of formal charges, police did not give out the arrested man's name, which was found by the media in jail records. According to TV station KAKE, a Wichita State University spokesman said Dutt was a former student and was last enrolled in the spring of 2015.
Reddy graduated from Hyderabad's Osmania Medical College in 1986, did an internship at St Louis University in 1994 and a residency at the Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita in 1998, according to the Wichita Eagle newspaper. He practised in Wichita for more than two decades and opened his own practice in 2003, the newspaper said.
In YouTube videos, Reddy said that in addition to providing the psychiatric care he also treated chronic physical pain and expounded a system he called "Absolute Yoga". He said that he had suffered chronic back pain for 10 years and that led him to conduct research and develop the system which emphasised having the "right mindset".
Fellow doctors and members of the community said his death was a loss to society. The Wichita Eagle newspaper quoted Denis Knight, president of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, as saying, "The Medical Society is heartbroken over the loss of Reddy."


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Monday, April 30, 2012
Riusuke Fukahori
This Is Colossal reports: [edited]
Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer.
For more images click here
Thanks to Brook Jordan for the link
Friday, April 27, 2012
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines hosts a plethora of old-school gaming machines.
And if you fancy a play on Morskoi Boi (Sea Battle), click here (no Roubles required)
And if you fancy a play on Morskoi Boi (Sea Battle), click here (no Roubles required)
Thursday, April 26, 2012
O2 Wallet
The Next Web reports: [edited]
O2 announced the launch of O2 Wallet, a 'seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available.'
Wallet will let users send and receive money, compare prices and shop via their mobile phone. And it will work whether they're an O2 customer or not.
O2 Wallet lets consumers transfer money using any UK mobile phone number, and it's as easy as sending a text message. The so-called 'Money Messages' allow users to make daily transfers of between £1 and £500, and is designed to make lending, borrowing and repaying money easier.
O2 Wallet has a barcode and search engine function to help shoppers compare prices across millions of goods covering around 100 online retailers. They will also be able to tap daily discounts and deals via the 'My Offers' icon.
You can load money onto your O2 Wallet account using your debit card, by receiving a Money Message from someone you know, or by using cash at more than 30,000 participating outlets, including O2 stores, PayPoint and epay outlets.
O2 Wallet will be compatible with iPhones, Android and BlackBerry smartphones, as well as iPads.
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For iPhone App, click here
Caveat Emptor: In 6 months O2 will introduce charges to your account, so that every time you 'send money' you will be billed 15p. For full details, click here.
O2 announced the launch of O2 Wallet, a 'seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available.'
Wallet will let users send and receive money, compare prices and shop via their mobile phone. And it will work whether they're an O2 customer or not.
O2 Wallet lets consumers transfer money using any UK mobile phone number, and it's as easy as sending a text message. The so-called 'Money Messages' allow users to make daily transfers of between £1 and £500, and is designed to make lending, borrowing and repaying money easier.
O2 Wallet has a barcode and search engine function to help shoppers compare prices across millions of goods covering around 100 online retailers. They will also be able to tap daily discounts and deals via the 'My Offers' icon.
You can load money onto your O2 Wallet account using your debit card, by receiving a Money Message from someone you know, or by using cash at more than 30,000 participating outlets, including O2 stores, PayPoint and epay outlets.
O2 Wallet will be compatible with iPhones, Android and BlackBerry smartphones, as well as iPads.
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For iPhone App, click here
Caveat Emptor: In 6 months O2 will introduce charges to your account, so that every time you 'send money' you will be billed 15p. For full details, click here.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Free Font - Wellfleet
Font Squirrel has made this informal slab serif available.
Designed by Eben Sorkin.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Asteroid Mining
Gizmodo reports: [edited]
Today, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history. They claim they will "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity."
The group of investors and scientists on board this enterprise is impressive, including Google's Larry Page & Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.; film maker & explorer James Cameron; Chairman of Intentional Software Corporation and Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, Ph.D.; Founder of Sherpalo and Google Board of Directors founding member K. Ram Shriram; and Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group Ross Perot, Jr.
Harnessing the resources of asteroids is not a crazy proposition and the return of investment could be amazing. So much that they are convinced they can "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP." More importantly, this may solve many of our material needs as resources on Earth keep dwindling fast.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Ancient texts going online
ars technica reports: [edited]
This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span about 4 years and was made possible by a donation of £2 million (approximately $3.1 million) from the Polonsky Foundation - a charitable organization that supports higher education, medical research, and other general matters in the arts and sciences.
The texts will include pages from Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV). The digitized pages will include early printed books — called incunabula — from Rome and the surrounding area; Greek manuscripts including early church texts and works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Hippocrates; and Hebrew manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Fisher-Price iPhone/iPod touch case
Fisher-Price reports: [edited]
This sturdy case will protect your iPhone or iPod touch from dribbles, drool, and unwanted call-making. Busy beads and a mirror add baby-appropriate play. And free Laugh & Learn™ apps mean plenty of learning fun!
Price: $20.00
Thanks to Kirsty for the link
Thursday, April 19, 2012
RC plane footage
via John Nack
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Free Font - Titan One
Font Squirrel is hosting this chunky informal sans serif.
Designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Architectural Stationery Vignettes
Bibliodyssey reports: [edited]
The images in this post all come from Columbia University's very large assortment of commercial stationery (featuring architectural illustrations): the Biggert Collection.
The majority of the images have been cropped, cleaned and variously doctored for display purposes, with an intent towards highlighting the range of letterform/font and design layouts. The underlying documents are invoices (most), letters, postcards, shipping records and related business and advertising letterhead ephemera from the mid-1800s to the 1930s.
via Kottke
Monday, April 16, 2012
Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a great story
Brain Pickings reports: [edited]
Kurt Vonnegut — anarchist, Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead, sad soul — with eight tips on how to write a good short story, narrated by the author himself.
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Friday, April 13, 2012
HTC One X Android
Register Hardware has published a (very favourable) review of HTC's quad-core flagship smartphone.
Their verdict:
"A perfect smartphone? Very nearly. Some will bemoan the absence of Micro SD expansion and the lack of a dedicated HDMI port. I expected better from such a large battery too, but the screen is huge and glorious, the CPU powerful enough to run a small country, both cameras are good and the build quality superb. Suddenly my Desire HD feels like the relic of a bygone age."
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Collective Snapshot
Pep Ventosa reports: [edited]
Nominated for the Photography Masters Cup in the International Color Awards, images in this series blend together dozens of snapshots to create an abstraction of the places we've been to and the things we've seen. A celebration of our collective memory.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Plantronics BackBeat Go Bluetooth Earphones
pcmag.com reports: [edited]
The featherweight BackBeat Go is a stereo Bluetooth headset equally adept at voice calls, listening to music or podcasts, and watching movies without disturbing anyone nearby. In fact, it's the best stereo Bluetooth headset we've ever used for phone calls, period.
The BackBeat Go weighs just 13 grammes. The plastic earbud housings have a curved shape, with a rubber cover over the micro USB charging port on the right earbud. The rubber tips are of a very soft material. Plantronics includes three sets in the package, each of a different size, plus a set of optional looped stabilisers to further anchor each one in place when fitted to your ear.
The tiny cable connecting the two earbuds is of a tangle-free design, and is designed to sit behind your neck. It's made of a rubberized soft touch material that's comfortable, and in practice it disappears from view and doesn't interfere with modest neck movements. .
The BackBeat Go features a pair of 6mm neodymium drivers. Audio quality is good, but not great, when listening to music. The BackBeat Go is highly sensitive to getting exactly the right seal in your ear in order to deliver sufficiently weighty bass response. That's true of all in-ear earphones, but what makes the BackBeat Go more difficult is that you can insert them in your ears 10 times, and end up with 10 slightly different frequency response curves.
The high-end is another story. I've yet to hear as smooth a treble range over stereo Bluetooth as I do here. The BackBeat Go is unusually delicate, with little of the obvious harshness and warbling you get with other Bluetooth headsets. There's a trace of it, as you can't fully escape the limitations of the Bluetooth codec, but it's not at all bad.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Material 6 iPhone Wood Backs
Cool Hunting reports: [edited]
Material 6's product is not an adhesive layer applied to the glass back of the phone, but a replacement back, with the wood mounted in a frame identical to Apple's standard issue.
The in-house laser etching service offered by Material6 costs just $5. The company supplies a template to use for the creation of your designs, and their Flickr page contains past examples for inspiration.
The case is delivered with a five-point screwdriver, and the whole set-up takes less than a minute to install. Calibrated to fit precisely with the iPhone, the wood backs doesn't affect the device's profile (although the replacement of the phone back does void the Apple warranty.
Material6 backs can be purchased at their online store for prices starting at $89.
Friday, April 06, 2012
The Old Rugged Cross
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.
O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He'll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I'll share.
George Bennard, 1913
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Bose QuietComfort 15 Noise Cancelling headphones
My eldest son endures a 2 x 2-hour commute between South Harrow and Feltham. His iPhone's playlist provides some solace, and on our last trip to the Westfield Apple Store, we spent some time listening to the headphones on display.
The well-reviewed, top-of-the-range Dre Beats failed to impress. They sounded like they had a built in graphic equaliser with all the sliders pushed up to '11'... my guess is that they could become extremely wearing over longer periods of listening.
By contrast the Bose QC15s have a more delicate, initially underwhelming, sound presentation that rewards longer periods of listening. So far, so not worth £250, but the QC15 trump card is the noise cancellation function. The effect of switching it on is quite magical, with background noise and bustle fading away to almost nothing.
I purchased a nearly-new item on eBay for substantially less than the retail price, and Brook's feedback has been very positive. He says the noise cancelling has the effect of significantly reducing the 'thrum' of background noise, while still allowing him to hear voice announcements, etc.
If you do purchase a pair, remember to carry a spare AAA battery with you at all times, as the QC15s don't work without power.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Nokia Lumia 900
Ars Technica has published a full review of Nokia's latest Windows smart phone, complete with plenty of images.
Excerpts follow:
"The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango."
"We largely compare the Lumia 900 to the two flagship phones of the other two major OSes, the iPhone 4S with iOS and the Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0."
"The new hardware can hold up against both of these phones. Still, the OS has some maturing to do compared to the other two platforms. Power users for whom price is less of a factor will find much to admire here, but they still may not be won over when it comes to getting the best handset, period."
"The Lumia 900 has a 4.3-inch 800x480 resolution Clear Black AMOLED display embedded in a unibody polycarbonate shell, rounded on the long sides and squared off at the top and bottom. The polycarbonate body has a velvety, slightly rubbery feel to it, making it easy to hold. Due to the screen margins and casing overhang it feels bigger in hand than you might expect of a 4.3-inch-screened phone."
"As a point of reference, the Galaxy Nexus measures 67.9 millimeters wide to the Lumia 900's 68.5 millimeters, despite the Galaxy Nexus having a 4.65-inch screen. The Galaxy Nexus is also less than a centimeter longer, meaning the Lumia 900 is hardly any friendlier to a jeans pocket."
"The Lumia 900's single speaker is pretty quiet, even at the loudest volume setting."
"...the Lumia 900 comes with a flat 16GB of storage—unexpandable, unupgradeable. As apps get bigger and photo libraries expand over the course of the next two years (the standard length of a phone contract), that size limit would start to chafe us."
"The 8-megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss, f2.2 aperture, 28mm focal length lens) is centered on the back of the phone, which seems more in the interest of aesthetics than practicality (my fingers were all up on it while using the phone). Next to the Carl Zeiss lens is a dual-LED flash."
"The pictures turned out quite well, at least in good lighting. They can even stand up to the iPhone 4S's, in many scenarios. In closeups and dim scenarios, though, it stumbles."
"The Lumia 900's screen is 800x480 pixels. Because the Lumia 900 has regular RGB subpixels, it displays text beautifully in a big range of sizes, especially in the OS and applications. At its brightest, the Lumia 900's screen appears a bit warm compared to the bluer-hued iPhone 4S's display. The blacks are nice and inky."
"The physical glass of the screen is noticeably not oleophobic, so the Lumia 900's screen holds onto grease and fingerprints like crazy."
"There's no denying that the OS looks great. From the transitions to the screen arrangements, Microsoft paid a lot of attention to the look of Windows Phone. On the surface, it creates a very polished product. The menagerie of flipping and changing tiles on the home screen make you want to interact with them."
"...the OS isn't without polish problems or minor difficulties. Landscape orientation sometimes seems half-baked, with buttons that stay portrait-oriented next to the horizontal keyboard. The phone is also a bit finicky about scrolling. Being that the screen is so big and the range of my thumb is comparatively small, my horizontal swipes are often slightly diagonally downward (instead of working the joint to make the swipe straight, I keep my thumb straight). Android and iOS have never had a problem interpreting this slightly-downward, mostly-horizontal, somewhat lazy swipe as I intend it, but the Lumia often reads as "scroll down" instead of "swipe across." This creates a lot of mistakes in an OS where there is so much swiping left and right to do."
"The browser is based on IE9, the desktop version of which has won a lot of praise. But the browser on the Lumia 900 does sometimes feel janky when it comes to text rendering. Mobile browsers resize text and alter page layouts in some subtle ways in an attempt to ensure greater readability. IE 9's algorithm has some oddities not found in Safari's approach."
"We also have some quibbles with the interface design for the browser, namely that tabs are buried two clicks deep. A third-party browser, UC Browser, adds a second bar to the interface that provides one-click access to tabs as well as a forward button (something else Windows Phone IE lacks) and a home button."
"Those issues and the benchmarks aside, we found that the Lumia 900 actually loads pages fairly quickly. It doesn't beat the iPhone 4S at loading any of our test pages, by any means, but at least beats out the iPhone 4 while on WiFi."
"The battery life of the Lumia 900 is another point of pride on Nokia's part. It clocks in at 1830mAh, which is on the large side for a smartphone battery. Nokia estimates it gets around seven hours of talk time with that."
"This is pretty healthy performance for a smartphone, besting the Galaxy Nexus in similar tests, but the iPhone 4 and 4S crank out about 3 more hours of video and several more hours of general use. iPhones also have an often-overlooked ability to charge the battery to 80 percent in an hour, but the Lumia 900 charges at steady pace and over a few hours: it took ours nearly 4 hours to go from 0 to 100 percent."
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
SSD drive prices continue to fall
Register Hardware reports: [edited]
Intel has a new budget 330-series solid-state drive (SSD) coming on Friday, 13 April, and it almost doubles the current 320 SSD's performance.
Amazon UK lists the 120GB 2.5-inch Intel 330 SSD for £109.05.
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Above: part of the challenge of Anglesey's geology is that, while the coastal exposure is superb, critical areas inland are sometimes a bit less co-operative!
Above: Greenly's map of Llanddwyn Island, 1919.
Above: John Stevens Henslow - the first pioneer.
Above: zircons in matrix from Norway. Unlike this spectacular mineral specimen, the zircons used for U-Pb dating are often rounded, microscopic grains - but even then they are every bit as useful! Photo: Rob Lavinsky.
Above: granite clasts in conglomeratic rocks on the Skerries, a small group of islands off the north coast of Anglesey, where several researchers, including a team from Japan, have been active in recent years.
Photo: Brian Windley.
Part 02: Unravelling the Precambrian story....
John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1818, the year in which Adam Sedgwick became Woodwardian Professor of Geology. He developed a passion, accompanying Sedgwick on fieldwork and studying chemistry under Professor James Cumming and mineralogy under Edward Daniel Clarke. Thus armed, he arrived on Anglesey to investigate aspects of the island's geology, recognising the belts of "chloritic schists" and other exotic rocks, the observations being printed in the first volume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1822.
Nearly a century later, Edward Greenly was in the process of preparing his classic, meticulously detailed, account of the stratigraphy of Anglesey's Precambrian and younger rocks. Since that time, the "sequence" has been overturned so many times one could forgive it if I complained of dizziness!
One can feel some sympathy here. There are three key problems to any worker looking at these older rocks on the island:
1) Exposure is incomplete to poor in many critical inland areas.
2) Patchy, post-Arenig (Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Quaternary) cover is present in many areas, obscuring the picture.
3) Where exposure is better, and cover absent, the rock units described on page 1 are separated by major tectonic breaks, or, in some cases by hotly debated breaks which, to some, are stratigraphic, while to others they are tectonic.
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, almost complete around the edges (the coast), but with big holes in the middle (inland) - and those few completed bits in the middle all radically different from one another. That's Anglesey's geology in a nutshell, and that's why it magnetically draws so many research teams, to whom the unsolved problems are among the greatest geological challenges left in the UK. They started coming in the early 1800s, and there is no sign of a let-up yet!
Greenly's sequence, following, in broad terms, that of Henslow, was said to be stratigraphically continuous, beginning with the Gwna Group, passing up through the New Harbour Group and with the South Stack Group the youngest. The sequence was then recumbently folded and metamorphosed, leaving it in part upside down and with an increase in metamorphic grade towards the south-east where the Blueschists are to be found. The Coedana Gneisses were regarded as ancient basement, with the intrusion of the Coedana Granite a late-stage, post-metamorphic event, finishing the development of his Precambrian Mona Complex.
Decades passed and little more was written on the matter. Then, in 1965, Robert Shackleton published his findings in which the geology was substantially revised. He considered the bedded strata to be the right way up, thus inverting the sequence, with the South Stack Group at the bottom and the Gwna Group the youngest. He considered the Coedana Gneisses to be their high-grade metamorphic equivalent, the culmination of which was granitisation, resulting in the Coedana Granite.
During the 1970s, two key papers were published regarding the ultrabasic rocks within the New Harbour Group. In one, Alec Maltman argued the case for their emplacement purely by intrusive processes whilst, in the other, Richard Thorpe argued the opposite, indicating that they had been tectonically emplaced as part of an ophiolite sequence.
The 1970s in general saw a lot of activity around the island, but it was 1979 that saw a proliferation of papers that sparked some of the most robust debate ever witnessed in UK geological research. Much of this was centred around a paper published by Anthony Barber and Michael Max, which appeared in the Journal of the Geological Society.
Barber and Max restored Greenly's stratigraphy but with an important difference - they considered the three bedded units to be separated by tectonic breaks. Thus, the relatively undeformed South Stack Group was overthrust by an already highly deformed New Harbour Group. The Gwna Group on the other hand was relatively undeformed, and might have been unconformably deposited onto the New Harbour Group. Shackleton's view of the Coedana Gneisses representing high-grade metamorphism of the bedded units was rejected and once again the gneisses were considered to be ancient (possibly Archaean), high-grade basement rocks. The Blueschists in the south were regarded as representing a tectonically complex zone of imbrication from a relatively deep level in a subduction zone.
The discussion following the paper is an instructive read, not least because it reveals the passion with which the various theories of key workers in the field were held. The late Dennis Wood, a geologist with a lifelong association with the island's rocks, was strident in his view that the South Stack and New Harbour groups were conformable and it was their lithological differences that had led to different textures produced by the same deformation. He considered the bedded units to pass with increasing metamorphic grade into the Coedana Gneisses - and these into the Coedana Granite.
Meanwhile, in the same issue of the same journal, Thorpe, writing with R.D. Beckinsale, presented the results of Rb-Sr whole-rock isotopic analyses for the Coedana Gneisses and the Coedana Granite. These gave evidence for a late Precambrian age (around the 600 million years ago mark) for gneissification and granitisation and reinforced Shackleton's and Wood's view of their origin.
The occurrence of fossils in the limestone clasts of the Gwna Mélange also came to light in the 1970s, with Margaret Wood and G.D. Nicholls describing stromatolites (algal mats) from the north coast in 1973 and M.D. Muir and colleagues describing microfossils from the same clasts in 1979. Neither were as useful in terms of stratigraphy as more recent fossils are, such as the graptolites occurring in Lower Palaeozoic rocks. The stromatolites could be late Precambrian or Lower Cambrian, whilst the microfossils could be early Cambrian, but without 100% certainty!
Old controversy attracts new research, and the last decades of the Twentieth Century saw much of the latter. Studies included work on the Coedana Complex and the Blueschist Belt by Jana Horak, Wes Gibbons and co-workers. By 2000, it was widely considered that Anglesey was made up of three individual terranes, the Monian Supergroup (the bedded units), the Coedana Complex (gneisses and granite) and the Blueschist Belt, collectively being referred to as the Monian Composite Terrane. These terranes were thought to have widely differing metamorphic histories, and had docked together before becoming accreted to the rest of England and Wales (or Avalonia, to use its geological name) at the major shear-zone that bounds the Blueschist Belt along the Menai Strait.
Progress was also made regarding the age of some of the rocks. Ar-Ar radiometric dating of the metabasites of the Blueschist Belt gave two ages - the oldest, 580-590 million years ago being considered to mark sea-floor metamorphism and the youngest, 550-560 million years ago, representing the metamorphism in the subduction zone. Thus, the Blueschists were definitely late Precambrian.
In 2004 there came the confirmation that at least one of the bedded units was, however, considerably younger. U-Pb data, obtained by Alan Collins and Craig Buchan from detrital zircons in the South Stack Group, indicated a maximum age for these rocks of 501+/-10 million years, or very solidly Cambrian in age. This is a useful dating method, since zircons crystallise in igneous rocks and, obviously, can only be eroded, transported and deposited in sediments after that crystallisation has happened. So if a zircon is 501 million years old, the sedimentary rock into which it has become incorporated cannot be any older than that. The results throw doubt on the earlier view that the Coedana Gneisses are the highly metamorphosed equivalent of the bedded units. They can't be - they're demonstrably over 100 million years older!
Up to the future, and in recent years a team of Japanese scientists, working with Brian Windley of Leicester University, has been undertaking a variety of studies. Japan of course lies on a subduction zone, and this team has spent many years studying such features in their local area. Some valuable new data and interesting interpretations are emerging: perhaps a key conclusion is that, for all its tectonic dismemberment, Anglesey is in fact a classic example of an ancient accretionary orogenic belt, with an exhumed blueschist, a late Precambrian mélange with many oceanic components, an ophiolite sequence and a passive margin sedimentary basin sequence of Cambrian age.
So, we go into the future with new interpretations going into publication, which again will attract great interest and inspire new generations of research geologists to come over to Anglesey and continue the study of its extraordinarily complex, controversial, inspiring and sometimes frustrating rocks. Let's take all of the latest conclusions, and try to piece together the story of the evolution of the island, in Part 3.
Above: the South Stack area: is the South Stack Group conformable with the New Harbour Group or not? Opinions have differed!
Photo: Stewart Campbell.
Above: who was right and who was wrong? The debate on the geology of Anglesey was, and has continued to be, robust!
Part 02: Unravelling the Precambrian story...
Part 03: Painting the picture:


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|This Saturday, September 21st '13 7pm - 4am Supernova/ SUPERJAM!
Last year, more than 6000 people trouped through the OSA to check out and contribute to the 1st Nuit Blanche's Nuit de la Jam/ SuperJam (co-hosted by Gérard Bélec & Amy VanTorre). It is going to be an incredible night. Join us, bring your favourite drawing instruments, or use the free matériel provided. All ages/ everyone welcome.
Hope to see you there!
ottawacomicjam (at) gmail (dot) com
|Nuit Blanche 2013


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A community of communities
Communities that register for a CGDN join a network of other communities that are online Australia-wide. This network allows the opportunity to share experiences and learn from the many other live CGDN websites.
www.welshpool.vic.au has made a "links to other sites" section on their website, which acknowledges help they have received from other CGDN websites around Australia including www.mirboonorth.vic.au, www.narromine.nsw.au, www.wollombi.nsw.au, www.koonwarra.vic.au and www.buninyong.vic.au.
www.charlton.vic.au has links on their website to other towns in the Buloke Shire, including www.birchip.vic.au, www.sealake.vic.au and www.wycheproof.vic.au.
The Greater Hume Shire CGDN websites (www.holbrook.nsw.au, www.culcairn.nsw.au, www.wallawalla.nsw.au and www.henty.nsw.au) have all provided links to their 'sister' towns' sites.
Many CGDN websites have included links on the home page of their website to the www.cgdn.org.au website so that visitors can have a look at other community websites.


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Rise in sea levels (cm)
In world's oceans since 2000
Over millions of years, and up to the present time, our climate continues to go through shifts. Some are more dramatic than others:
Climate change is different from seasonal weather changes, like winter or summer or the Rainy Season. Shifts in the climate, results to a long-term change in the weather in a region, lasting for decades or even millennia. Weather changes in a certain place is normal and localized – but the climate of that area should be the same. There shouldn't be snow in the tropical countries, and in Alaska, it will be weird if you suddenly find tropical weather.
The amount of energy that we get from the sun is just perfect for life. If we were nearer like Venus, we'd burn. If we were farther, like Mars, we'd freeze. We are in the "Goldilocks" zone. Not too near, not too far. It's just right.
The layer of greenhouse gases that surrounds our planet keeps the planet from getting too warm or too cold. As long as the amount of gases in the atmosphere are in balance, we are protected from the heat of the sun and from the coldness of space.
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is said to be the main driver of climate change.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, we have invented and manufactured a lot of things that made us more comfortable. We've become technologically advanced. Airplanes, Cars, Ships and other vehicles, they can be found everywhere. A lot of factories sprung up to keep manufacturing the artificial things that we've come to rely on. All of this requires vast amounts of energy, and our main source of energy are fossil fuels, mainly coal.
Burning fossil fuels releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, causing an imbalance in the amount of greenhouse gases – resulting to the greenhouse effect. More heat is trapped in the planet and our temperature on the surface rises. It's what they call Global Warming.
Read More: Global Warming Definition for Kids
When the climate changes, life as we know it will be entirely different. Here are some of the possible effects of Global Warming.
We can try to reduce our Carbon Footprint in our own small ways.
Read More: What Does Carbon Footprint Mean?
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Moolody is a Sound-emotion drawing machine, which can translate human sounds into a specific pattern and then play it with music.
First part is a drawing machine. The machine could analyze sound and translate it into some specific patterns and drawing them. Another part is a Synthesizer. This machine could read special patterns and play the music with different kinds of digital instruments.
At first, I started with digital sound converting. I used Pure Data and processing to detect sound and generated patterns. I chose drawing dots in a circle because this pattern is much easier to draw after switch to my drawing machine.
visual pattern exploration — watercolor drop:
Explorations of how to play back the sound:
connect to my midterm instrument:
And play testing in class:
- The pattern looks really beautiful when people sing a songs accurately.
- People can't actually hear what it play when my instrument play at the same time.
- People don't like the screen as I expected. I might use an iMac and put it inside the box.
Drawing machine:
Normally a drawing machine would use a pen, but what I want is many colorful dots. And the dots should be big enough so I could easily recognize them. So I decided to use dropper, which is really get me into a lot of troubles.
I bought two kinds of Pipettes. The glass one is 3ml, and the plastic one is 1ml. Here comes the first problem: if you want same volume of water every time , the pressure you need is different every time because the different water level has changed.
Glass dropper worked better, but the paper would also influence the patter. This is normal print paper, which takes a long time to absorb water:
So I have to buy many kinds of paper to test:
Then I tested 12v – 6N solenoid, and connected with Arduino:
I tried to use solenoid to squeeze the pipettes, but it was too weak to push the water out. So I had to change to a stronger and bigger solenoid.
But the servo worked. It is much stronger than the solenoid.
Next step is controlling the movement of servo, I used stepper motor and belt:
First prototype – try to assemble belt with pulley and combine with servo (used one brass tube as trail). But it was unstable and sometimes idler gears:
Second prototype – Use metal right angle bracket to make it stronger:
This one could not squeeze out water every time because when servo hit the dropper, the metal sheet bent first.
Adding a brass tube is really helpful, but as you can see the acrylic bent this time.
Then I have tried three kinds of linear trail:
Third prototype – full range of my machine:
Double the thickness make it stronger:
Laser cut a slot structure to make sure that servo wouldn't move:
Pattern Read:
At first I tried to use camera to read pattern, but I couldn't find a open source library that could identify dots. And color makes a lot difference.
I bought a Pixy and used it to identify color dots. It worked, but it needs a stable light condition:
First photo resistor prototype:
After build this, I found that all the photocell would give different values in a same light condition, so I have to code some setup program so that my machine could fid most light condition:
Turntable – L293 H-bridege chip test:
Second photo resistor prototype – combine it with turntable
Soldering photo resistors set:
User test on class:
- People would get a little confused when they are first time to see my machine. Playing the music first and then invite user to record their own sound would be helpful.
- I may need a LED light or a mark to let people know which area is reading the pattern.
- In a noisy condition, I may need a direction mic and a 3.5″ audio-in for earphone.
Solder and testing circuits:
Final prototype:
Measuring the height:
Connected every part:
Base for turntable:
Final circuits test:
Testing program:
I'm using Pure Date to analyze human sound and translate it into MIDI numbers. Arduino communicate with PureData and send MIDI number when it detect some dots, then Pure Data get MIDI numbers and send them to FM8 through AU Lab. Through this process, I can play sound by using different kind of tones.