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All scientists are kindly invited to participate in the our III. International Social and Humanities Sciences Berlin Conference to be held on 02-05 May 2019.
It is open to all scholars, academicians, researchers, teachers, graduate and post-graduate students across all social sciences.
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Non-Random vs Random -
Order out of Chaos
A Working Analogy for
Natural Selection
Timiskaming District Secondary School, Ontario, Canada
|NEW ARTICLE: Common Misconceptions about Natural Selection. Go to our Evolution Introduction page, scroll down to bottom of page for "A Few Very Common Misconceptions" and a link to the excellent article that exposes a number of widely held misconceptions, with clues for correcting them (June 2009).
For several STEM Applications of Natural Selection
This activity provides an excellent introduction to the concept of biological complexity while at the same time demystifying and debunking Paley's argument that a complex "watch" is compelling evidence requiring a (complex) "watchmaker" (designer/creator). It employs an elegant, simple mathematical exercise to demonstrate this. It involves a randomizing component (a die), and a simple mathematical rule (the non-random component), resulting in the repeated plotting of points. Repeated cycles eventually produce an orderly pattern.
Simple non-random rules, acting on random events can easily produce complex, seemingly "designed" patterns.
Natural selection is a process of non-random events (selection) acting on random events (mutations), resulting in the production of complex systems (new species).
Students will....
1. Recognize examples of random, chaotic, events.
2. Recognize examples of non-random, orderly events
3. Recognize examples of the results of the interaction of random and non-random processes, as orderly, complex, patterned systems.
4. Recognize that natural selection, as an example of such an interaction, can produce complex changes in living organisms (new species): micro-evolution.
5. Recognize that when selected features accumulate over time, new and modified kinds of structures and species can arise (cumulative selection).
6. Recognize that the accumulation of new species from ongoing selection over time can produce new groups that we recognize in the hierarchy of our modern classification (genera, families, orders, etc.), a process of cumulative speciation, or macro-evolution.
For each team (of 2-4 students):
Living on the Edge: Order, Chaos & Complexity (5 page packet for each student/team)
Living on the Edge...for the teacher:..(5 page PDF version of this lesson)
|Depending on whether the computer routine is
used or not...
Without the computer : could be all or most of 45 minute period.
With the computer: probably no more than 20-30 minutes.
|Living on the Edge: Order, Chaos & Complexity (5 pages): Background info, questions for discussion, activity directions. Available in PDF format (click on title)
This lesson should be a critical part of any presentation of natural selection. It could be done as part of a dramatic introduction to natural selection, anticipating possible (popular) doubts about complex or orderly systems being able to arise from random events. This also provides an opportunity to emphasize the NON-random element of SELECTION which is integral to the process.
Alternatively, this lesson could be used following one of the classroom activities that models natural selection (see the several examples on this site). In this way, it could provide a powerful answer to objections students may have heard about the creative powers of natural selection. If students don't raise this challenge, then the teacher should bring it out as a popular criticism, based on a popular misconception and a misunderstanding of the process.
Be sure you have all needed materials for each team, and sufficient copies of the 4-page handout. If you plan to demonstrate (or have students use) one of the computer simulations of the Chaos Game, be sure it's ready to go and be displayed to the entire class. Otherwise, have the "Sierpinski Gasket" fractal diagram ready to display on your overhead or projector.
THE CHAOS GAME: Graphically presents the multiple cycles of random events interacting with a simple rule, producing the complex fractal pattern called the Sierpinski Gasket.
To show students how to do the Chaos Game, show them the short YouTube clip showing how the plotting is done, and this other clip showing an accelerated view of the fractals building. In addition to this, there is a similar interaction (on the CD) that produces the fractal pattern of a fern frond. Click here for details of the process.
If possible, have students work with Jeff Sprague's Chaos Plotter. Notice that there are four sliders that control parameters (pictured on the left):
There are also 5 Demo runs with pre-set parameters you could try.
Another aspect of natural selection is that the changes are cumulative. This is apparent as points accumulate in the Chaos Game, eventually producing recognizable patterns. Cumulative selection (another often-overlooked but critical aspect of the natural selection process) is also illustrated in the simulation of a monkey typing a Shakespeare quote from Hamlet: "Methinks it is like a weasel", a supposedly random process in which hits that fit survive (stay) and accumulate, until the entire phrase has been typed.
The educational impression of this routine and the basic Chaos Game alone are critically important. Critics of natural selection often mischaracterize the process as totally random, and that the chances of a monkey randomly typing keys coming up with "Methinks it is like a weasel" is so unlikely as to be virtually impossible. But they forget the accumulative nature of natural selection, where little changes that fit or are functional are retained. This lesson makes clear that non-random processes of selection and accumulation make random changes (mutations) that produce a functional change a virtual certainty over a fairly short time. You might also want to consider doing another ENSI lesson that focuses on the cumulative nature of natural selection: A Cumulative Process.
1. Briefly provide a logical context for the lesson, and introduce it.
2. Hand out the lesson (one per team, to be read aloud within each team, or enough for everyone to read quietly).
3. After the teams have a chance to interact on the first set of questions (1-6), give one person per team a turn at sharing team responses with the class in a class-wide discussion.
4. Repeat step 3 with each subsequent set of questions (7-10, 11-14). You might find it works better to allow teams to go through all 14 questions in one sweep, THEN engage the class in sharing their answers.
5. Go on to Part II: Complexity, and the "Chaos Game". Depending on your class, you might want to demonstrate how to plot each point (die, measure, make dot, etc.). The YouTube video showing how the plotting is done can do this nicely.
6. After the class has done a few dozen cycles (or less, if time is short), with no discernable pattern, do one of the following:
7. Carry out a class discussion (items #1-25), or allow students to do this within their teams, followed by class sharing at least a sampling of the questions. Allow some time for reflection and conclusions about what they've learned from the lesson.
1. Provide unlabeled examples of various events and objects, and ask students to identify which are examples of chaos (random events or randomly produced objects), which are non-random events/objects, and which are the products of both random and non-random elements.
2. Ask students to explain how natural selection is like the Chaos Game (e.g. which element is random, which element is non-random, and how the product is like the fractal product of the Chaos Game).
of NATURAL SELECTION
1. As a further analogy to natural selection, one which also emphasizes the cumulative nature of this process, take a look at "Natural Selection... a Cumulative process: It's in the Cards" on this site. It's taken directly from an article in The American Biology Teacher by Werner Heim, in which students select a sequence of playing cards two different ways: one cumulative, the other non-cumulative. The chaos game does a great job showing how a combination of random and non-random elements can create order. However, the physical engagement with the cards, and the direct comparison, provides a real sense of the statistical probabilities involved, and may even be more compelling. This is especially true for those who have heard and believed the old anti-evolution argument and the misplaced appeal to intelligent design.
2. To reinforce the concept the the combination of non-random with random events together producing complex designs, along with the concept of cumulative selection, share the "Methinks it is like a weasel" demonstration. Try entering other target phrases, like "Make a human being." And another very interesting variation on this theme (promoted in Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker," is the Biomorphs interactive (see References below).
3. Another topic which strongly indicates that life has NOT developed by intelligent design is the study of pseudogenes (non functional DNA sequences that are nearly identical to certain functional genes). In fact, this is an excellent opportunity to give your students a chance to see the power of MILEs (Multiple Independent Lines of Evidence). Take a look at our Pseudogene Suite, and consider doing at least the first two lessons there: Lesson A: Why Do We Need Vitamin C In Our Diet?, and Lesson B: What Can Pseudogenes Tell Us About Common Ancestry? These are based on the existence of a pseudogene in humans that is very similar to the gene that enables many other animals to make vitamin C. The lessons show how common ancestry between primates and other mammals is the most likely explanation for that striking similarity.
4. In addition, we would encourage you to extend the unit on natural selection by addressing, at some point, the concept of cumulative speciation and how this results in the phenomenon often called macro-evolution. There seems to be a growing acceptance for natural selection at the micro-evolution level (within a species) amongst creationists, but they still insist that there is "no-evidence" for macro-evolution, so we feel that the mechanism and evidence for this continuum should be clearly presented. See our Intro to Evolution page, in the section on What Evolution IS, and click on the Macroevolution Diagram which can be used to show this (along with directions on its use). You could also use the similar diagram in the NAS book on Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (page 32). Partly for its historical significance, you should also show Darwin's Tree, also accessible from the What Evolution IS section.
Also, Take a look at the handy summary: "Comparing Evolution Mechanisms" near the bottom of that same "Introduction to Evolution" page. Darwin's and Lamarck's essential elements are listed and compared, and a few common misconceptions are clarified. Scroll down to download the PDF file of this information.
5. For further experience with macroevolution, consider using at least one of the following lessons:
Classroom Cladogram of Vertebrate Evolution <http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/c.bigcla.html>
Hominoid Cranial Comparisons (skulls lab) <http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/hom.cran.html>
Becoming Whales lesson <http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/whale.ev.html>.
In each of these, examples, traits are seen accumulating in fossils over time, clearly showing gradual changes in the mosaic patterns of those traits.
6. Finally, you should also take this opportunity to present a sampling of the many transitional forms in the fossil record, something creationists persist in denying, in spite of the abundance of examples. We have a nice condensed version of Kathleen Hunt's treatment of transitional fossils (from her Talk Origins paper). <www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/c.bkgrnd.html>. It's called the "Background" and is also accessible from the Classroom Cladogram lesson.
Chaos Game:
http://webserv.jcu.edu/math//vignettes/chaosgame.htm Shows stages during development and variations, and math behind it
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierpinski_chaos_animated.gf Same - stages change in place
https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/the-chaos-game-sierpinski-triangle-generator/2407640941 Excellent: Animated (on right), and short program and var.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBhx4XXJOH8 Demo of doing Chaos Game: YouTube, good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=droTYSmSGHg Demo graphic of plotting points, accelerates
http://www.wildlizardranch.com/chaosGame/ This is Chaos Plotter:
Written in Javascript by Jeff Sprague, a former student of the ENSI webmaster. User can select desired polygon shape, and adjust 4 different parameters.
Methinks it is like a weasel:
http://evoinfo.org/weasel/ [includes totally random process, too] Click on Simulation tab, enter phrase, like "MAKE A
HUMAN BEING" etc. Excellent
Another online interactive version:
http://antievolution.org/cs/dawkins_weasel See Program Control: Click on Run [no visual of totally random events]
http://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/biomorphs/ ORhttp://www.emergentmind.com/biomorphs
User can change parameters. This interactive program is based on Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker.
Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. 1987. Norton. An excellent read, highly recommended before you present the Chaos Game.
ENSI Mini-Lesson: Natural Selection... a Cumulative Process: It's in the Cardshttp://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/ns.cum.l.html
ENSI Lesson: Pseudogene Lesson A: Why Do We Need Vitamin C in Our Diet? http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/psa.html
Some of the ideas in this lesson may have been adapted from earlier, unacknowledged sources without our knowledge. If the reader believes this to be the case, please let us know, and appropriate corrections will be made. Thanks.
The original concept and CD for this lesson came from Doug Fraser, a biology/environmental science teacher and biology text co-author Matthew Allen in Ontario, Canada.
8/15/2015 Many changes made by webmaster, reflecting unavailability of the CD by Fraser and Allen. In its place, an interactive Chaos Plotter was kindly developed and donated by Jeff Sprague, former student of the ENSI webmaster, and added to the lesson. There are also now several online interactive versions of the Chaos Game from which to choose.
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Always Sometimes Monsters. No giant, scaly creatures with sharp claws and beady red eyes; no tentacled squid beasts; no fuzzy, purple and green dinosaurs. The game instead tackles figurative monsters in questions of morality, offering the player mundane choices in everyday situations: Do we buy a donut or save the money? Do we yell at this person or keep a cool head? Do we work hard at a tedious job or slack off? Is love worth it?
Always Sometimes Monsters deals in chaos and quantum theories – in every second of our lives, we make choices that forever impact our timelines going forward, dictating whether we keep or lose friends, maintain a job or succeed in our goals. We are the masters of our destinies, Always Sometimes Monsters says – but we can't control other people's lives. That's where it gets tricky.


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The Power of Education in Prison
Imprisonment is an experience that no one among us wants to have. However, many are unfortunate enough to make a mistake that leads them to be imprisoned. As their sentence start to roll, many of them are given the chance to be educated.
Education allows them to gain knowledge and be enlightened through learning. In the prison system, education comes in a variety of form. It can be academic, college courses, employment training, drug and alcohol treatment, health classes, pen pals and more.
While they are staying under imprisonment, they can take advantage of all the fundamental opportunities such as these programs that are being offered for them. For inmates that are open-minded and desires to change their lives for the better, this is something that they can really reap benefits from aside the encouragement they might get from participating in the prison pen pals program.
Through these programs, the inmates can be inspired to pursue their dreams and achieve their goals that they can attain. This will help them develop their self-esteem, self-worth, and their confidence. This will help them change their character for the better and gain back the respect to themselves and for others.
Education will give them a new sense of purpose that they need in their lives more than ever. This will also help them utilize their skills in coping up and help them to react appropriately in all the adversities that will cone in their lives. Like the prison pen pals program, inmates can be encouraged to become a better community member and look forward to their better life after the imprisonment.
Aside from skills and learning, education in the prison system can also instill positive values and morals in the inmates. It helps them become the most responsible version of themselves as they learn to take account of the action they take.
Like the prison pen pals program, education programs in the system aim to create a positive impact on the lives of the inmates as they pursue to be a better person and change for the better. Through education, those people who have taken a wrong path in their lives can change and become a positive role model not just to their fellow inmates but to their families, friends, loved ones and most importantly in the community.
If prison pen pals program is the encouragement, education in the prison system serves as the foundation for the new beginning for the inmates. It marks the better chance for them to succeed while being incarcerated especially when they are released and given another chance at life.
Education is a powerful tool that these people should take full advantage of while they are at it. It is not just all about prosperity and benefits but it holds a deeper meaning for each one of them.
With education, they can save themselves from the pit they have fallen to. It is can help them lift themselves up and see a better future for them when the time that freedom will be given to them once again. Like the prison pen pals that encourage them to become better, education is bound to give them hope for a better life and great changes.


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Car boot and charity shop finds
I've picked up some interesting singles at car boots and in charity shops over the last couple of weeks, including some rock and roll 45s that I've been after for years. Also some quite rare psych and beat singles from the sixties. Here are some of them. I've included Youtube links.
1. Johnny Otis Show - Ring-a-ling/ The Johnny Otis Hand Jive. Released on Capitol 14875 in 1958. Mint value - £25.
One of many great rocking double siders by the late Johnny Otis, this was a gap in my collection and a record that is well worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFO9TNo8bI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEziEImmNxs
2. Dion & the Belmonts - I Can't Go On (Rosalie)/ No One Knows. Released on London 8718 in 1958. Mint value - £50.
This was another yawning gap - a great, garage-sounding cover of the Fats Domino song, the group's second UK release, with a wonderful slow doowop B side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70mveGgacas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VLtelUUMk
Another single previously missing from my collection, this was one of the great double sided rock and roll instrumentals by a band from Dearborn, Michigan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSTCx-uY5k
This was the third and final single by a British psych group which included Viv Prince, previously of the Pretty Things, on drums, and Hraiton Garabaldianne on vocals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlDsGe5q988
5. The Zombies - Time Of The Season/ I'll Call You Mine. Released in 1969 on CBS 3380. Mint value - £60.
This is the original release of a track from their highly collectable Odessey and Oracle LP. The record was reissued five years later on Epic and became a hit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7b62El_fk
6. Pete Best Four - I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door/ Why Did I Fall In Love With You. Released in 1964 on Decca 11929. Mint value - £70.
The Beatles original drummer, sacked in the early days of the band, Pete Best had only one single released during the sixties - this rather average cover of the Eddie Hodges hit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsmjLjyOBU
7. Eddie Bond & the Stompers - Rockin' Daddy/ I've Got A Woman. Released on US Mercury 70826 in 1956.
Finally, a tribute to a singer who died aged 80 a few days ago: rockabilly singer Eddie Bond. This is probably his best known record. It's one I've had for a long time and a great track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rscSTkwUsYw


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PokerStars does not need any introduction as it is a premier home for different online poker games. The organization goes beyond offering mere games as it is a major sponsor of different live games and tournaments that are held in different parts of the world. However, it all began with the website where it started off with several games on the line for different players. PokerStars distinguished itself by offering constant support to players, ensuring security of deposits and cash outs as well as offering a stable and secure environment for playing games.
With the Spring Championship of Online Poker comes up, known as SCOOP, it is time again to remind all poker fans of what you can find at the site. For those who are new to poker, they can start off by playing for free. That is a great way to start learning the different games of poker. Indeed, the website has been the grounds where many have developed skills at different games and have gone on to become champions in this field. The different poker games to be found on this forum are Badugi, Stud, Omaha, Texas Hold'em and others. One can practice playing games with Play Money as well as start off with real currencies as well.
The other tournament on the website that is a highlight in the poker world is World Championship of Online Poker. Besides the spring and world events, there are other events and tournaments that the website runs weekly or monthly. Every second there are new games starting off for anyone to participate in. For those who are pros there are several pro games and tournaments held. One will find world poker champions associated with the PokerStars team and find inspiration from them. As of now, the Spring Championships is something that one can look forward to.


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All photos taken in Tallinn, Estonia on October 1, 2016 by Eva Tenter
© Eva Tenter
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Inspirational sunset & nature photos by Psychic healer Eva Tenter
"I saw an angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free."
~ Michelangelo
Clouds holding hands? How can clouds do that? Well, for me, clouds are not just clouds. I see them having rich personalities. I see them living a full life of their own. And I love to observe their lives.
This is one photo, where I see the love between the cloud families so beautifully presented. So I call this photo "Clouds Holding Hands". 🙂
"Clouds Holding Hands" © Eva Tenter
Another great quote by Deepak Chopra. 🙂
Related articles
- The Wisdom of Chopra (patheos.com)
- The Mirror of Relationship (2012indyinfo.com)
- "The reality you experience, is a mirror of your expectations" Deepak Chopra (bisous.typepad.com)
- Inspiration to Start Your Day: "The best way to create your future is to make the right choices now." – Deepak Chopra Do you have an important choice to make today? (waselife.wordpress.com)
Some soothing and at the same time spiritually lifting music into this Wonderful Wednesday! 🙂
Abraham-Hicks – Outcome Matching Inspirations 🙂
May is Mental Health Month and today May 16th 2012 is the Mental Health Month Blog Party (#mhblogday). More about this event can be found from http://www.yourmindyourbody.org/mental-health-month-blog-party-preview/
I have been blogging with the aim to raise mental health awareness for quite some time now. I started this blog because I myself was previously suffering from different mental illnesses (for most of my life actually).
Now I am cured and I wish to spread the word around that:
1) it is possible to be cured from mental illnesses
2) there is nothing shameful about mental illnesses and admitting that you have such problems.
My book about my healing journey from depression, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, eating disorders and all other mental problems that came with these illnesses is also still out there for everyone to learn more about my personal healing journey – www.evatenter.com
In order to contribute to the Mental Health Month Blog Party, I would love to spread a bit of inspiration into the day via a speech by Abraham-Hicks. Since Abraham-Hicks, Dr. Joe Vitale and other Law of Attraction writers/speakers/mentors have been the No. 1 Key to my healing from all the abovementioned mental illnesses, I wish to join this excellent Blog Party with one of their videos. 🙂
Another wonderful speech by Abraham Hicks! – Chill / Soothe yourself into the vortex!
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One of my personal all time favourite videos. 🙂
Just do it! No, not buy Nike…Do everything that your deepest desires and intuition guide you to do. 🙂
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Family attractions in Duqm
If you haven't heard of Duqm yet, chances are you soon will. This Omani city, which is currently in the process of implementing its architectural and infrastructural master plan, is well on its way to becoming a leading family-friendly destination.
The Arabian Sea port has set 2025 as the date for its grand reveal, at which point it intends to have a population of 10,000 people, an airport and a world-class marina. In the meantime, it remains something of a hidden gem, with sun-drenched beaches relatively free of tourists, calm seas ideal for watersports, and mountains and valleys just waiting to be explored. If you're visiting Oman with the kids in tow, don't miss out on the chance to discover Duqm's attractions for yourself.
Al Shu'ir beach
Approximately 20km from central Duqm you'll find Al Shu'ir, a beach that's also referred to as Al Shuwaier. Blissfully unspoilt, its golden sands contrast beautifully with the azure Arabian Sea waters. This coastal stretch is defined by fishermen's abodes rather than grand resorts, preserving a romantic, ramshackle vibe. Kids are free to run and play to their heart's content, and you'll find it easy to keep an eye on them from a cosy vantage point on the sand.
While it gets pretty hot here between April and July, temperatures tend to hover between 20-30°C throughout the rest of year. Even in the height of summer, cool sea breezes often keep temperatures at a perfectly manageable 25°C.
Duqm rocks park
Children can let their imaginations run wild at Duqm's rocks park, where boulders appear to resemble animals and parts of the human body. Discovered in 2009, the super-rare natural boulder garden is regarded as one of the most important sites of its kind in the world. Its sandstone and limestone formations are believed to have taken shape some 46 million years ago – look out for rocks resembling turtles, smiling faces, and pretty much anything else your family can dream up.
Discover rural Omani life
While work continues apace to transform Duqm into a city on a par with Abu Dhabi or Dubai, its heritage as a fishing village and strong links with rural communities make it an ideal place to explore traditional life in the Arabian peninsula. Within a short distance of the city you'll find opportunities for wadi hiking, dune bashing and camping on the beach, complete with authentic meals like freshly-caught fished grilled right there on the sands.
Ras Madrakah beach
Situated about 80km south from our Park Inn by Radisson Hotel & Residence Duqm, Ras Madrakah beach is worth the 90-minute drive. A popular spot for surf fishing, the vast expanse of sand with its gently lapping waves is the ideal spot to settle down with a picnic. As yet untouched by developers, you might even find you've got the whole beach to yourselves. Early risers can treat themselves to a picture-perfect sunrise that turns both the beach and the surrounding desert a rich shade of gold, creating a truly spellbinding spectacle.


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10. Facebook integration
As with Twitter previously, Apple has promoted Facebook to the premier social network camp by allowing deep integration into iOS. To control that level more finely, go to Settings > Facebook and choose whether to allow the site access to your Calendar and Contact apps. With these functions turned on, you'll find Facebook Events and friends' birthdays appearing in your Calendar, as well as their Facebook photos populating your Contacts.
11. Tap to post
Pull down the Notification Center from the top of the screen and you'll notice two new buttons - Tap to Tweet and Tap to Post. Like it or not, that's the level of baked-in social media integration you can expect from iOS 6 onwards.
12. Guided Access
Ever given your iOS device to your son or daughter for them to play their favourite game, only to later find them watching Tory party broadcasts on YouTube? Let's ensure it never happens again: open Settings and tap through to General > Accessibility > Guided Access. Turn it On, and you can now lock them into the app of your choice choice. First define an unlock passcode, then open the app in question and triple-click the Home button. Now, with a finger, circle any areas on the screen you'd like to prevent them from interfering with. You can also choose to turn off motion, touch, and hardware buttons by hitting the Options button. Problem solved!
13. Send more photos
Get into the Photos app and tap edit, then tap each photo you want to share as a group. Simply hit Share when you're happy and you can send them in an email, over Messages or via Facebook - the choice is yours...
14. Read it later offline
Got too much stuff to read online? Just tap the button in Safari with the arrow jumping out of it, and you can Add to Reading List. This makes the page available offline, and it syncs with Safari on your Mac and any other iOS devices you own, if you bought into that ecosystem.
15. Lost phone
If you activated Find my iPhone in Settings > iCloud, you can make use of Lost Mode. In the event that you lose your phone, log into icloud.com, select Find... and you may well be able to see where it is. Lost Mode lets you input a password and display a number on the phone screen for the finder to call.
16. Reskinned iTunes
The iTunes app has received an 'update'. But it's questionable whether it's lost more than it gained. By adopting a slicker but less content on screen, the app offers a more expansive view of your search results. But it's time to stop looking for podcasts and iTunes content in iTunes, for example - these now have their own apps. Go get them from the App Store now. Oh, and you can forget about Ping. We doubt you'll lose any sleep over it...
17. Privacy
Thankfully iOS 6 isn't all about sharing your life with the world. In Settings you'll see a new option called Privacy. Use it. There you can control any apps that attempt to access your Reminders, for example - swinging the social media frenzy back in your favour.
18. Sounding off
Want to select a special alert to distinguish it from your Calendar or Reminder Alerts? Sounds > Settings is where it's at; From Facebook alerts to tweets, you can define each one's sonic output here.
19. Panoramic feature
If you're the proud owner of an iPhone 5, 4S, or fifth-gen iPod touch, check out the new panoramic feature in the Camera app. Just move your device continuously when taking the panorama. For everyone else, go download Microsoft's free Photosynth app, pronto.
20. Bedtime!
So you've explored iOS some and now it's time for a bit of well-earned shut-eye. The good news is iOS 6 thought of this too. Remember Do Not Disturb? It goes deeper than you think. Tap into Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb and you can schedule a timeframe for its action. There's no need to fret about emergencies either - just allow your favourite Contacts through your phone call firewall, and block out everyone else. You can even turn Repeated Calls on to allow for any persistent types. Easy. See you again for iOS 7!


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Patterns Of Oppression
Whenever we the human race set about oppressing another group from within or from outside our own species the justifications we use are not only similar in design but often times exact verbatim. There is a fairly intricate pathology to how we determine the otherness of different groups. Unfortunately, it is far too complex for the scope of this slim essay. However, I would like to highlight a couple prime examples that I have come across in my years as an activist for the liberation of Animals and the Earth, as well as my experience as a political prisoner because of that fight.
I will say from the outset that what I am making are correlations of the way in which various groups are oppressed, along with the arbitrary justifications for those oppressions. But these are in no way comparisons. Animals suffer worse injustices in vastly greater numbers than any segment of humanity. The annual death toll due to war in the middle east is roughly 91,000. For people murdered by the police it's between 500 and 1000 annually. There are currently over 2,300,000 imprisoned in the United States. This is nothing compared to the annual confinement, torture and murder of: 9,500,000,000 Chickens, 100,000,000 Pigs and 70,000,000 Animals in laboratories!
That said, one major thing we do in order to feel comfortable oppressing a group deemed as other is to infantilize them. We do this with Animals in a myriad of ways. We take domesticated Animals and baby talk to them as if they were an 'itty bitty widdle bawby'! Even though these creatures have, in certain arenas, aptitudes that are far beyond our own. Sure your dog or cat cannot read Shakespeare but neither can you smell a foot print and tell the age of its maker. Nor can we see in the dark, fall from several stories and walk away unharmed and many other amazing aptitudes and abilities that are shared by canines and felines.
Human supremacy dictates that in nearly all our philosophies, religions (or atheism), politics and lifestyles we build off of a basic assumption that humans are inherently superior. So prevalent is this arrogance that it is seen as a given, as an unchallengeable and basic truth to all our endeavors. The human race viewed honestly from the point of Mother Earth is truly the human racist!
Since Animals do not share our set of aptitudes we relegate them to the realm of stupid and inferior. Take away the malevolence from this equation and what you're left with is infantilism. Not unlike how white slaveholders in the days of overt slavery in the united states used to refer to black men as 'boys' and tell them to 'go fetch' pales of water. Not unlike how many americans, upon meeting someone that cannot speak english immediately put an inflection into their tone that suggests that the listener is either ignorant or hard of hearing, instead of not proficient with the language.
There are so many correlations between racism and speciesim that it would take a volume to accurately detail them all. The phraseology between racists and speciesists is strikingly similar and many times interchangeable. Historically, racists have tried (with varying degrees of success) to exact the actual idea of bestiality onto their victims, calling them beasts, dogs, monkeys, apes or Animals. And I'm not talking solely about racial epithets. I'm also talking about the so-called 'men of science' of yesteryear, statesmen and business owners. The racism that today is considered lowbrow was once (less than a hundred years ago) considered intellectually astute. Just as how it is the elitist view today that Animals exist for our property, food, fashion, entertainment and so-called science, I predict that it will one day be seen as the shameful tragedy of speciesism which it is.
Nelson Mandela once wrote in his book 'Long Walk To Freedom' that during his time as a political prisoner the first confrontation that he faced with prison staff was the way they forced him to dress. They dressed prisoners in tight fitting, very short shorts, just like a dutch school boy would wear. In the counter terrorism prison unit where I am held, a big spectacle is made out of giving a bunch of 40+ year old men ice cream/movie night (PG-13 only and usually 20 years behind the times). As a prisoner you get a very acute feeling of what it is like to be infantilized. We are constantly treated as if we don't understand the complexities of life, as if it's for our own good to be in a cage, as if our captors who punish and objectify us are our 'team'.
Infantilism paves the way for our inevitable use and abuse of others. For once we are comfortable viewing them us uneducated, unfeeling, uncouth and stupid then we can easily surmise that they are being put to their best use when we use them for our own intents and purposes. Which of course are always viewed as much higher and more lofty than anything that the being on the receiving end could envision. This is the underlying attitude of vivisection and animal research. The so-called scientific community justifies the most heinous and ghastly tortures of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives annually under the pretext of advancing and safeguarding the human race/ist.
Most animal experimentation will yield results that can never be extrapolated to our species and the researchers themselves know this. To justify their careers they tell their funders, the public (and themselves) that torturing innocent Animals to death is a necessary evil when it's really just circular abuse that knowingly benefits no one. Much like the infecting of poor black southerners in 'syphilis experiments, or the horrors of Dr. Mengele in nazi germany, the justifications are the same, and in retrospect just as worthless and unfounded.
The perception of those that resist by those that flip the switches, push the buttons and sign the commitment orders of slavery, use and abuse is also surprisingly similar. In the days of the overt u.s. slave trade, the general consensus amongst the slave holders was that blacks were given this 'wonderful opportunity' (slavery) to take part in building a much higher civilization then they would ever experience in Africa. Any resistors to slavery or inequality were viewed as ungrateful, lazy and otherwise of discredit to all.
Today in the american prison industrial complex incarcerated industry and factory workers get paid up to one dollar and fifty cents a day to do jobs both difficult and dangerous. Never mind that this is about 50 times lower than minimum wage. Prisoners are supposed to be happy at this 'opportunity for rehabilitation' (and enough income annually to buy hygiene products, postage, paper and a bag of chips)! Many inmates that aren't grateful for their slavery are stripped of their general population status and confined to their cells until they are ready to get with the program.
And the list goes on and on, ad infinitum. We enslave Animals and each other for our entertainment, for our food, for fashion and for our own petty whims and enjoyments. The nasty little fact that seems to get forgotten in all these patterns of oppression is that it is always very lucrative and incredibly profitable to forsake or justify away the inherent right to life, and freedom from harm of others. And this is the prime reason for objectification to begin with. Not the projections we utilize to assuage our own guilt for taking advantage of those that cannot defend themselves…….
Animal Liberation, Whatever It May Take!
Walter Bond


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Speaker Guidelines
Guest Speaker Guidelines
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a "guest speaker" for an upcoming Rotary Club of Cheshire meeting.
Our weekly meeting is held alternately at 12 noon and 6:30 pm out of the Waverly Tavern, 286 Maple Ave., Cheshire (203) 272-5998. You are our guest so when you get to the check-in table, please don't pay! Dietary restrictions? Let us know.
The guest speaker generally has 10-15 minutes of presentation, and a few minutes of Q & A. Our meetings usually conclude approximately one hour and 15 minutes later.
To help you prepare your presentation, here are a few guidelines/tips:
• There are typically 14-22 members, visiting Rotarians and guests in attendance.
• Presentations should be non-political and non-sectarian unless you have been invited specifically for that purpose, i.e. candidate debate.
• Presentation should not promote a specific business or its services, and presenters may not solicit a financial or in-kind donation or request purchase of products or services. It is okay for you to talk about your business/organization and its services. It is NOT okay to make a "sales pitch" or directly solicit purchases or donations. You are more than welcome to invite interested members to stay after the meeting to talk with you.
• Handouts for club members are welcome.
• The club does not have audio-visual technology of its own, but presenters occasionally use overhead projectors or LCD displays of their own. Please let us know if you have specific needs.
If you have any questions, please contact the Rotary Club member who invited you, or Club President Mary Rossi (203) 272-0209. Thank you. We look forward to your presentation.


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A flame among spring's flowers,A russet flash through summer's haze,A spark aglow in autumn fields,On brilliant snow, a sudden blaze.
~ nowhiners, 2/5/00
Speak gently, Spring, and make no sudden sound;
For in my windy valley, yesterday I found
New-born foxes squirming on the ground ~Speak gently.
Walk gently, March; forbear the bitter
blow;Her feet within a trap, her blood upon the snow,The four little foxes saw their mother go ~Walk softly.
Go lightly, Spring; oh, give them no alarm;When I covered them with boughs to shelter them from harm,The thin blue foxessuckled at my arm ~Go lightly.
Step softly, March, with your rampant hurricane; Nuzzling one another, and whimpering with pain,The new little foxes are shivering in the rain ~
Step softly.
~ Lew Sarett
One ran,
her nose to the ground,
a rusty shadow
neither hunting nor playing.
One stood; sat; lay down; stood again.
One never moved,
except to turn her head a little as we walked.
Finally we drew too close,
and they vanished.
The woods took them back as if they had never
been.I wish I had thought to put my face to the grass.We kept on walking,
speaking as strangers do when becoming friends.
There is more and more I tell no one,
strangers nor loves.
This slips into the heart
without hurry, as if it had never been.
And yet, among the trees, something has changed.
Something looks back from the trees,
and knows me for who I am.
~ Jane
Copyright � 1996 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; June 1996; Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight; Volume 277, No. 6; page 98.
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The plan by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to consolidate or dissolve small medical schemes posed risks to the people who belong to these schemes and might force some to drop their cover, industry sources warned this week.
More than 228,000 people belonged to 31 medical schemes that had fewer than 6,000 members at the end of 2015, according to the CMS 2015-16 annual report. All but three of these schemes are restricted employer groups. Restricted employer group schemes generally subsidise members on low incomes, enabling them to buy cover they could not afford on the open market.
CMS acting registrar Sipho Kabane said consolidating the industry was in line with the white paper on National Health Insurance (NHI).
Medical schemes with fewer than 6,000 principal members were targeted as they fail to meet the requirements of the Medical Schemes Act. The act says schemes must have 6,000 members to register.
Consolidation was necessary because fragmented risk pools were expensive and limited the scope for cross-subsidisation, said Kabane. "It isn't just about noncompliance [with the act]. This is just the beginning. In NHI, we will have one risk pool: from 83 [medical schemes in SA] we will consolidate into one.
"We are going through a consultative process, to come up with a clear mandate on how this will be [achieved]," he said.
Insight Actuaries joint CEO Christoff Raath said: "These people won't be able to get similar benefits on the open market and may get dumped on the state."
Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand chairman of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, said consolidation would harm consumers as it would limit choice. Closing small schemes due to their size was indefensible.
Discovery Health CEO Jonathan Broomberg said "the legality of forcing small schemes to close" was an issue, while there were "concerns about the impact on the members of many small schemes".
Medscheme CEO Kevin Aron said an attempt by the CMS to deregister medical schemes was likely to be met with legal and constitutional challenges.


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Most people think making a homemade pie crust it so difficult or time consuming so they would rather buy pre-made ones. I about fell over when I saw how much refrigerated pre-made pie crust cost! It was about $5 for 2 crusts! Buying those graham cracker and/or Oreo ones cost about $4 for 1! Pie crust is not that hard to make nor does it take a long time and it costs less the $1 if you use items you have at home.
Ingredients for Single Crust:
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 stick Crisco baking stick shortening OR 1/2 cup Crisco shortening…make sure it is cold. Chill it in the fridge for a bit before using it!
3-6 tablespoons cold water
Blend flour and salt together and set aside. If using Crisco baking sticks cut them into small cubes before using. Cut the shortening into the flour using a pastry blender, If you don't have a pastry blender (I don't) use a butter knife, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs about pea size.
Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of water onto the flour and shortening mixture then use a fork to mix the water into the flour. Add another tablespoon of water until dough is moist enough to hold together when pressed together. Shape dough into a ball then roll out onto a floured surface until it is the desired thinness. Then fold the dough in half then pick it up and distribute it into the pie pan, make sure not to stretch the dough when unfolding it. Let it rest loosely in the pan.
Once the crust is in the pan take a fork and gently press against the dough hanging over the edge of the pan to remove the excess. Then you are ready to fill and bake it!
#1 For ease in rolling, wrap dough in plastic wrap the chill for 30 minutes but no more then 2 days.
#2 Instead of rolling it out on a floured surface you can place the dough between two sheets of wax paper then roll the pin on top of the wax paper.
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Francesco Pandolfini took his first steps right around the counters of the historical family bakery Antonio Mattei in Prato.
Heir of the ancient Tuscan bakery tradition, Francesco is really keen on food and driven by the spirit of continuous research. In 2001 he founded DESEO for his desire of having his own artisan's workshop.
Deseo is the pastry maker's workroom for creative experimentation and it looks forward to new ideas, new flavours and colours.
The Bakery
Deseo's biscuits are handmade products, baked on a daily basis, sharing a philosophy of quality and authenticity that does not permit the use of any type of preservative, no palm oil for its negative effects on health and environment.
The main goal is creating well-balanced and tasty biscuits with excellence of the ingredients, natural flavors, handmade working methods and traditional cooking systems.
Our Biscuits
DESEO is experimentation and research for innovation: the packaging is the result of a nod to modern design, with a particular inclination to play with color to «suggest» the taste of the ingredients.
Pictures clearly represent the biscuits and their main ingredients, evoking in this way the taste.
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Sean Penn May Be Trying To Rebound With Minka Kelly
After failing to win back Charlize Theron with a drunken late-night booty call (emoji of hot dog, emoji of screaming angry face, emoji of broken dish, emoji of winky face), it looks like Sean Penn has decided to run his crusty overcooked pot roast lothario game on someone new. TMZ says the lucky lady is Minka Kelly, aka Derek Jeter's former long-term girlfriend, aaka that two-timing Riggins-riding tramp Lyla Garrity from Friday Night Lights. All together now: "RUN GIRL, RUUUUUN!!"
Minka semi-confirmed her future mistake by showing up at The French Laundry in CA's Napa Valley with Sean Penn last Tuesday night. TMZ says 54-year-old Sean treated 35-year-old Minka to a birthday dinner along with three other people, who no doubt kept giving her "Him? Really?" eyes all night long. According to Sean Penn, who was talking loud enough that other tables could hear, he met Minka at a charity event for Haiti.
So far, neither has said anything about whether or not they're grinding greasies, but Minka did Instagram this picture of her French Laundry birthday dinner and captioned it: "Birthday festivities off to a pretty magical start #thankyou #napa."
What in the hell am I looking at? From what I can gather, I'm looking at a tiny-ass cup with a candle in it, a decorative tampon, and a spoon holding a gold glob of something. Is that what passes for a first date birthday cake these days? I hope Minka took one look at that yard sale plate of whatever, hissed "Call me when you get your hands on a Carvel" at that cheap bastard, and got up and left.


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Welcome back to warriors warmup it's great to have you here on 957 game little Saturday night basketball for the Golden State Warriors taken on. The Milwaukee Bucks to get us ready for tonight it's time for our from the floor segment brought you by American Express proud partner. Of the Golden State Warriors and as always coming up from the floor our friend John Dickinson getting us ready for. Tonight's game just had a little pregame media would Steve Kirk what's the what's the big take away from that I JD at some conversation about. Speaker was asked how many games out of its last fourteen the warriors have to win. C get the number one seed in person he really wasn't focused on it it's more about our guys are playing in the dated today and eleven guys in our answer questions about a number they've been thinking about four months this guy had he he is having he really did it was the collegiate yet well see Alec as a client and that's more important. And everything else look these guys want but once the course but they're not get a put a number it's I just I was thinking about we talked about it in the NBA this week today with fourteen ago. It is attending is at eleven you know or your short game and a half up on San Antonio coated plated night. And they have to beat him by game because of a wide to tide obviously experts at the tiebreaker. And I I divided it really straight half I think there's seven games and banquet tonight is that. That the warriors need to get they need to be seven and now those games in if you just kind of run through those games quickly it's it's the game the night at Dallas. It's Sacramento here it's Minnesota here the pelicans here at Phoenix. And the lakers are here on the final night of the regular season so that's not that I don't think anything. Outlandish to ask now it to go seven and all those games given the way the warriors have played but then it's the other seven. That are gonna determine it when you start to look at headed for 113 can afford three. Three and four. In teams against Oklahoma City on the road that this is here Iraqis to that suited Tony IOUs use here year after Washington's here. Ending Utah is here as well in the final week of the season so it's those seven games. Barring a slip up in the other seven if the warriors can treat that as a seven game series that went for the seventh you're looking at eleven at three that probably gets it done. Well they got to be disperse I mean at some point you gotta get the indices when that happened I think in two weeks march 29 I think the game is. If for their own purposes. I think to get back on track be hopefully healthy obviously Katie won't be backed by the degree breakdown here and I think those that it's imperative that those other ones that we're gonna get this done. Goes seven and no. Three and a half the over under 34 but one of those 34 past the B it's dispersed is that that that preached to essentially by giving them a loss though. It's gonna come down the wire obviously the chicken in in the whole plan B that. The KD UN now we went through that a team you know crazy Roche Strachan. Didn't come out completely and skated and hope we get stuff back on track eloquent he had a Claybrook. Of one and affect Geico brought up at all you know out of going to you know if you've heard or have your own thoughts on vanity about where staff is that. And how he can kind of get himself back threes that BI lab talked about last couple weeks they commit true point guard which cannery is earlier ball screens earlier looks to not have run around without he'd be. But I wanted to you even you know Monday before. You know they'll be able to adjust that plan against Russell you know to attack Russell can take him out by making him guards that different ways on the ball. Like the break and I and I was at 66 went down to 64. That still gets to about 6364. Deaths related. Pretty safe feels like that's the magic number so so we're all in agreement got a what you gotta when we at least had the day I probably ten at a ten in like you say if its head at the spurs are one of the ten. That gets it done and if the spurs are one of the ten that might have to be eleven right to make up for right fact that you're not gonna get that game to skip and tide obviously or more behind you does the spurs of course have the tiebreaker so. Looking at this upcoming road trip you know we don't wanna the warriors to go three don't want this homestand have the opportunity to do that tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks team that I think's gonna give up a heck of the game I think there's going to be the toughest of the three games at home but you look at what's coming up it's Oklahoma City and we know the Kevin Durant is injured right now and it if IE worthy Golden State Warriors I would very much now wanna travel Kevin. To that game if he wants to join the team the next nine. Fine and dandy but Oklahoma City that's it now wire and we all know why if you can't go there to ball I don't think Kevin Durant should go there at all. What it's the correct to say about that yet itself. Is if Kevin Durant is going to make that trip re do Oklahoma City and Dallas and I think it's a good sign in terms of the injury obviously. That he's able to it to get on a plane in and get the work in that he needs to do. In Oklahoma City it and in Dallas it so I think that is a positive sign. I would use Damon in the sense that I I wouldn't. Be rushing to get him on a plane to get him around but is Steve Kurt said in the pregame press conference it's up to the training staff and the individual player. That's their policy on as a player wants to go certainly a player the ilk of Kevin Durant if he wants to go. And wants to go on that trip to Oklahoma City which I think obviously he wouldn't it sounds like he wants to show up and whether it's sit on the bench or walk around the building get. It's ceded the familiar faces take the heat that make public that it sounds like that's something he doesn't want a shy away from even though he's obviously not going to be able plane. He launched the guy actually have to show some trust that it won't be a distraction trusted him the most trusted the team. Because if we artists see them whether they stay in the seventh spot even creep up to six and is it happened when the series and and we we faced in the playoffs obvious are expected to do that with TB so that. Kind of brings back that hole. He beavers whispered thing again you know it's inevitable it's always going to be there at least for the short term so. Now I think it's up to speed to determine that and and and make sure it's not a distraction to the team because as you just mentioned. Every game's important now especially the ones that are count on the fence and that certainly is one that's on the fence especially the weather where whisper as well. I mean what's the real poignant I hear is I would explain to homes and look and you winning you've faced. Yeah as as as toxic a gym floor is not seen at the professional level real long titles remind me a little bit of a college welcoming. For a for an enemy. That's the level of venom that you dealt with and you won that game what's. What's to be gained by use sitting courtside for three hours have people yell cupcake catch you for picked up for third floors solid quarters in April why can't I. I think he wants to be around his teammates obviously and in that environment I think it helps. It helps you mentally when you're trying to rehab the injury dip back on the floor but not again I would you were talk and this is a short trip amid the warriors are leaving. For this trip tomorrow. And look at Oklahoma City they'll play local city Monday and then they're going to Dallas and come back and they're going to be back Tuesday night in and on Wednesday often hectic months after I would say this. There's no one at a world that we could walk in there with cool whip bet. Old in a horrible ports as that you look at and take that night autumn or not stay in the locker room or talk in sixty hours total of it is for that's right and go to yeah I. Absence does make the heart grow responders we all know that but. I think he should really market rate here but he is obviously. Gonna do whatever he wants to do in that regard and the fact like these today. If he is healthy enough to travel in terms of recovery that can only be viewed I think by us as a good sign we always enjoy eased up on buying thank you very much Judy good to see you any NCAA tournament bracket left for you is all gone bye bye. Now Villanova took the Seattle want gap I act I didn't want to pick him but I couldn't pick against them and then I should pick against them to first choice Arizona. It's not I had was gone outlook I did. I had with your big I'm a big thing I want odd that you very much John Dickinson joining us here on Verizon warriors warmup built like dole and locker doors and windows.


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Jan 2008
Elearning Predictions 2008
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If there's one thing you can predict with absolute certainty in elearning, it's that there will be quite a few prediction lists doing the rounds in January. We hate to be left out….
We've gone back to some of the experts who did such a fine job of predicting e-learning for us in 2007 to see if they can keep their game up for 2008.
For your futuristic pleasure, here are their thoughts. Set a reminder for 31 December and check back to see how they did.
Before they get their lists out in, here are a few from us
- Rapid elearning will become the default choice for all organisations looking to deliver effective elearning at speed. As the economy teeters it will become even more important to get more for less from training budgets; the downturn will hit high-priced providers.
- Open source LMSs like Moodle will be the first choice for organisations. Nobody will think that big hulking commercial LMSs are a good place to start, or continue.
- Elearning will get smaller: from multi-hour monoliths to the one minute message, and from chained to the desktop to a further upsurge in mobile usage. Rapid for the learner as well as the developer.
- Sharing is the new winning. Blogs, wikis, social networking and collaboration tools enable and encourage further sharing. Rather than hoarding information and knowledge, the smartest people will continue to share and give it away. The winners will collaborate.
And now from the panel:
Jane Hart: doing it for herself…
- Continued rise in interest and demand for open source and free tools
- DIY e-learning creators using a larger range of tools to create "short bursts" of e-learning (both informational and instructional) in different formats and using different media
- An increase in the use of video in e-learning as it becomes easier to create, host and deliver
- More embedding of these "short bursts" of e-learning into the workflow for performance support - really making them "just-in-time" and "on demand"
- Self-managed learning (i.e. determining what you learn, when and how) being seen as acceptable for certain groups of employees – who use the tools of their own choice to organise their formal and informal learning rather than having them enforced upon them
Jane Hart runs the Centre for Learning Performance Technologies
Charles Jennings: we're all creators now…
1. Further move away from focus on learning content, and learning content delivery to provision of services.
2. Increased focus on relationships and relationship management throughout the L&D supply chain. Fewer, stronger partnerships.
3. Increased focus on learning outputs, particularly performance improvement, at the expense of the embedded view of training/learning as the end-point of the process.
4. Move to more co-creation of learning content using Web 2.0 and rapid development tools - Involving users, learning teams in organisations, individual experts, and specialist learning content development companies in equal measure. This will result in L&D organisations forging closer relationships with both their customers and with upstream suppliers - moving relationships from the 'customer-supplier' model to a 'co-creators' model. It will also result in a decline in supplier domination of content creation.
5. Increased focus by L&D professionals on tools that support and promote employee development and productivity in a world of increasing tacit interactions. Use in L&D context of technology supporting collaboration - virtual team environments, wikis, web and video conferencing, and blogs- will grow during 2008. This growth will also support increased co-creation.
6. Further decline in the use of generic eLearning libraries and corresponding increased focus on 'bite-sized' bespoke disposable learning content delivered through Performance Support and other tools.
Charles Jennings is Global Head of Learning at Reuters
Donald Clark - The geeks shall inherit the earth
"I don't make predictions, and I never will" said Glen Hoddle. That was before he found God (must have been one hell of a pass) and now he's predicted the return of Christ and an Apocalypse! Standing on the shoulder of this giant I have both given up predicting changes in education and training. It's become a futile exercise, because nothing changes, apart from the technology.
Like Glen I thank God for technology. Forget all those learning professionals who prattle on about it NOT being about the 'technology' but the 'learning'. I predict that there will be, yet again, no significant shift in education and training away from outdated practice supported by fossilised theories. There will be no change on this front because education and training has now become its own worst enemy, still hopeless and hapless in its attachment to the classroom, course, competences and all the trappings of behaviourism. A training magazine or conference is no different now than it was 20 years ago – same old boring topics and talk – learning styles, coaching, compliance and diversity training, NLP, break-out sessions, Maslow, Gagne, Kirkpatrick. I nearly fell asleep typing that last sentence. In education and training every year is Groundhog Year. 2008 will be no different.
So what about technology? The real change in learning is coming from the deep driver that is the internet and then the wonders of consumer technology. The learning landscape has been transformed by Google (in the widest sense), Wikipedia (wikis in widest sense), iPODS, iPHONES, blackberries, wireless, cheap laptops, huge TVs, games (DX, Wii, Brain Training etc) and social networking. My faith lies with Generation Y and the Millennials. They are moving into the workforce and with their optimistic, media-savvy, empowered view of life, with the help of technology they'll change the world for themselves. Long live the geeks, for they shall inherit the earth.
Donald Clark is a board member of Ufi and frequent blogger at http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
Gabe Anderson: slightly biased but that's ok….
1) "Articulate will dominate." This sentiment was originally noted by Tony Karrer on his blog, then echoed by me on my blog. I'm obviously biased, but I can say based on what I know about our products currently in development and those planned for development that we're going to continue leading the e-learning industry with our innovative authoring tools that are extremely powerful and easy to use. Keep your eyes on us this year; I think you're going to like what you see!
2) Thanks to improved ease of use of e-learning authoring tools and great design blogs like Tom Kuhlmann's Rapid E-Learning Blog, e-learning content will start to look a lot better and stop looking like it was built in the early 1990s.
3) Video and "show me" screen recording will continue to become a key part of training. Many Articulate customers already embed video in the context of their Articulate Presenter courses, so I predict that this trend will only continue in popularity.
4) With the introduction of the iPhone, mobile Web browsing, and the ever-increasing popularity of video sharing sites like YouTube (and Flickr's rumored plans to add video upload), more and more learning will happen on the go. Amazon's e-book reader, Kindle, will help propel the learning on the go trend.
5) We'll see a rise of subject matter experts creating ecommerce membership sites for selling training content. Since we launched Articulate Online in January 2007, one of the most popular questions we get is how to integrate it with an ecommerce site. Many of our customers are not necessarily working in training departments in big companies -- they're experts on a particular topic (from medicine to aviation) who use our tools to create e-learning that they're selling to their customers for recurring revenue.
Gabe Anderson is Director of Customer Support at Articulate
Laura Overton: from traction to action
I am not sure that 2008 will see any really wild changes in learning and technology – I think that perhaps the main shift for 2008 will be the way that L&D professionals use these tools to position themselves as a business partner rather than just a training provider. The pressure continues to increase on L&D professionals to create interventions that really align with the changing business environment. Building credibility as a potential partner to address critical business needs will be important for any L&D professional in 2008 - not only those based in companies but also those who are in our further and higher education institutions. The tools and techniques that started to gain traction in 2007 ( rapid application tools, use of open source tools, the role of informal learning, collaboration etc) will be increasingly important in 2008 as the L&D profession becomes more 'business savvy' in the way that they position their offerings to meet the needs of employers. I would look to 2008 to be the year that 'relevance', 'speed', 'responsiveness', 'business impact' and 'efficiency' become the norm in the vocabulary of L&D professionals rather than the exception.
Laura Overton is the director of e-learning at e-skills UK
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I haven't had much inspiration nor inclination for nail art recently.
In fact, there was even a day when I left the house with naked nails!
Yeah, not even a basic paint job.
Throw in the recent gloomy weather that's been plaguing Singapore,
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Base - OPI It's in the Cloud,
dry-brushed with Lunasol Shining Gold.
Leopard spots with Wet n Wild Black Crème.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) Dwayne Woods returned an interception 48 yards for a Bowling Green touchdown, one of four Falcons interceptions in a 24-0 Mid-American Conference victory Saturday over Massachusetts.
Woods' pickoff came on Massachusetts' second play after the Falcons (5-3, 3-1) had taken a 14-0 third-quarter lead on Matt Schilz's 2-yard pass to Alex Bayer at the end of a 74-yard drive.
Trailing 21-0, the Minutemen (0-7, 0-4) replaced quarterback Mike Wegzyn with A.J. Doyle, but he was intercepted by BooBoo Gates. Gates' 38-yard return led to Tyler Tate's 42-yard field goal and a 24-0 Bowling Green lead early in the fourth quarter.
Jude Adjei-Barimah had the other two interceptions for Bowling Green, whose last shutout was a 52-0 win over Western Michigan in 2004.
Massachusetts, which had been allowing 43.5 points per game, limited Bowling Green to 282 yards, but the Minutemen managed only 118 themselves and were 1-of-16 on third downs.