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The North Sea (56°00' N, 4°00' E) is the site of Western Europe's largest oil and natural gas reserves. It is surrounded to the west, south, and east by the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
The North Sea oil fields are one of the world's most important non-OPEC production sites. Significant North Sea oil and natural gas reserves were discovered in the 1960s. However, the North Sea did not emerge as a key, non-OPEC oil producing area until the 1980s and 1990s, when major projects began coming onstream. Oil and natural gas extraction in the North Sea's inhospitable climate and great depths requires sophisticated offshore technology. Consequently, the region is a relatively high-cost producer, but its political stability and proximity to major European consumer markets have allowed it to play a major role in world oil and natural gas markets.
Although the region will continue to be a sizable crude oil producer, output from its largest producers - the UK and Norway - has essentially plateaued and is projected to begin a long-term decline. In the near-term, improved oil recovery technologies, continued high oil prices and new projects coming online could temporarily delay declines in North Sea crude oil output. Nonetheless, only new discoveries of sizable volumes could reverse the current downward trend of oil production from the North Sea.
In regards to natural gas, the North Sea is also seen as a mature region. Only Norway has seen an increase in natural gas production in recent years, while the UK will likely become a net gas importer in the midterm. Nevertheless, the North Sea's importance as a key supplier of natural gas will continue, as natural gas consumption in Europe will increase significantly in the future. Imports from outside sources, such as Africa, the Middle East and Russia, will have to increase in order to compensate for North Sea decline.
According to Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), the five countries in the North Sea region had 14.8 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in 2005. Norway contains the bulk of these reserves (57 percent), followed by the UK (30 percent). Total oil production for the North Sea region, including on- and offshore, was 5.9 million barrels per day (bbl/d), down 5.6 percent from peak production in 1999. Norway and the UK are the largest producers, though Denmark is also a net exporter.
Exploration and Production
The bulk of Norway's oil production occurs in the North Sea, with smaller amounts in the Norwegian Sea. Norwegian oil production rose dramatically from 1980 until the mid-1990s, but has since remained flat.
The largest oil field in Norway is the Troll complex, operated by Norsk Hydro, which produced 306,000 bbl/d in 2004. Other important fields include Ecofisk (ConocoPhillips), Snorre (Statoil), Oseberg (Norsk Hydro), and Draugen (Shell). There is a great emphasis on increasing production from existing projects, including the incorporation of smaller satellite fields. Statoil, for example, plans to bring the Svale and Staer fields online by the end of 2005, a project that will take advantage of existing infrastructure at the Norne field. The company is also developing satellite wells at the Asgard field.
Industry analysts consider the Norway Continental Shelf (NCS) a mature oil producing region. Most of the country's flagship oil fields have peaked, with production remaining flat or declining slightly. For example, the Oseberg complex produced 503,000 bbl/d in 1993, but only 229,000 bbl/d during the first five months of 2005. Companies are still discovering oil in the NCS, but none of the recent finds have been significant. In 2003, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) reported that oil companies made eleven new discoveries, potentially holding 189-566 million barrels of oil, far less than what the country produced for the year.
There are about 60 oil and natural gas discoveries that are still undeveloped, representing about 4.4 billion barrels of liquids and 16 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas. Drilling activity on the NCS in 2004 was the lowest it has been in a decade. At the time, many blamed the low drilling rate on a four-month rig strike; however, during the first half of 2005, the rate of exploratory drilling was similar to that of 2004.
Because Norway shares the North Sea region with the United Kingdom, the two must coordinate efforts when dealing with reserves that straddle the division of each countries' respective zone. In April 2005, the two countries signed a bilateral treaty detailing the handling of such resources. The treaty was the first step toward a general framework for inter-boundary oil projects, as previous projects have been governed by separate, one-time treaties and negotiations.
United Kingdom
Total oil production (including condensates, natural gas liquids, and refinery gain) in the UK was 2.08 million bbl/d in 2004, a 13 percent decrease from 2003 and 30 percent below the peak of production in 1999. The UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), located in the North Sea off the eastern coast of the UK, contains the bulk of the country's oil reserves. Most of the UK crude oil grades are light and sweet (30° to 40° API), which generally makes them attractive to foreign buyers.
The UK government expects oil production in the country to continue to decline, reaching 1.38 million bbl/d by 2009. Reasons for this decline include: 1) the overall maturity of the country's oil fields; 2) the application of new crude oil extraction technologies that lead to field exhaustion at a quicker rate; and 3) increasing costs as production shifts to more remote and inhospitable regions
Many new fields have come onstream in the past six years, including Halfdan, Siri, and Syd Anre, Nina, Cecilie and Nif, developments which have helped to bolster Denmark's crude oil production. In July 2004, Danish Oil and Gas Company (DONG) announced that, after completing the CA-3 appraisal well in the Cecilie field, the company found commercial volumes of oil and will proceed with the wells development. Other fields under development include Adda and Boje.
The Netherlands
The Netherlands produced 94,900 bbl/d in 2004. Overall, the Netherlands' oil production has been in decline since 1986, when it peaked at 123,400 bbl/d.
In 2004, Germany produced 161,500 bbl/d. Most of Germany's oil production is onshore; however, the country does operate a single offshore oil field, Mittelplate, located in the North Sea.
Crude Oil Exports
Norway and the United Kingdom are signifigant oil exporters, though Denmark is also a small net exporter. Because Norway only consumes a relatively small amount of oil each year, the country is able to export the vast majority of its oil production. In 2003, Norway was the third-largest net oil exporter in the world, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia. The largest single recipient of Norway's exports is the United Kingdom, which imported 814,500 bbl/d from Norway, or 34 percent of Norway's total exports. Other significant destinations included the Netherlands (14 percent), the United States (11 percent), and Germany (9 percent).
The UK has been a net exporter of crude oil since 1981, though the country does import large quantities of oil from Norway. According to the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the largest destinations of crude oil exports in 2003 were the United States (31 percent), the Netherlands (26 percent), France (16 percent), and Germany (14 percent). Much of the crude oil exported to the Netherlands is not actually consumed there, but rather sold at the Rotterdam spot market. In 2004, the UK exported 235,000 bbl/d of crude oil and 134,000 bbl/d of petroleum products to the U.S., contributing 2.3 percent and 4.7 percent to total U.S. crude oil and petroleum product imports, respectively.
Natural Gas
According to OGJ, the five countries in the North Sea region had combined, proven natural gas reserves of 169.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). Two countries, Norway and the Netherlands, account for over three-fourths of these reserves. On the other hand, the United Kingdom is the largest producer. The North Sea region is an important source of natural gas for Europe, second only to Russia in total exports to the European Union (EU). Natural gas production in the region has increased dramatically since the early 1980s, with a 2003 production level of 9.9 Tcf that was 56 percent above the 1980 level. However, regional natural gas production has begun to flatten, with only Norway adding any significant new capacity in recent years.
Exploration and Production
The North Sea holds the majority of Norway's natural gas reserves, but there are also significant quantities in the Norwegian and Barents Seas. Norway is the eighth-largest natural gas producer in the world, producing 2.59 Tcf in 2003. However, because of the country's low domestic consumption, Norway was the world's third-largest net exporter of natural gas in 2003, behind Russia and Canada.
A small group of fields account for the bulk of Norway's total natural gas production. The single largest field is Troll, which produced 930 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in 2004 and represents about one-third of Norway's total natural gas production. Other important fields include Sleipner Ost (450 Bcf), Asgard (360 Bcf), and Oseberg (250 Bcf). These four fields compose over 70 percent of Norway's total gas production.
Despite the maturation of its major natural gas fields in the North Sea, Norway has been able to sustain annual increases in total natural gas production by incorporating new fields. In October 2004, the Kvitebjorn field came onstream with an expected production level of 710 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d). Statoil expects to bring the Halten Bank West project onstream in October 2005, which includes estimated reserves of 1.2 Tcf spread among five fields (Kristin, Lavrans, Erlend, Morvin, and Ragnfrid). Over the long-term, Norway is counting on non-North Sea projects to provide significant natural gas production, such as Ormen Lange (Norwegian Sea) and Snohvit (Barents Sea).
United Kingdom
Most UK natural gas reserves occur in three distinct areas: 1) associated fields in the UKCS; 2) non-associated fields in the Southern Gas Basin, located adjacent to the Dutch sector of the North Sea; and 3) non-associated fields in the Irish Sea. Since 1997, the UK has been a net exporter of natural gas. However, as is the case with the country's oil reserves, most natural gas fields have already reached a high degree of maturity, and the UK government estimates that the country will again become a net importer of natural gas by the end of the decade. Indicative of this trend, the operators of the Interconnector natural gas pipeline linking the UK and Belgium announced in August 2005 that they would change the flow of the system, exporting gas from the Continent to the UK, rather than importing gas from the UK. In addition, the UK received in 2005 its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in three decades.
The UK produced 3.6 Tcf of natural gas in 2003, a decrease from the peak of 3.8 Tcf in 2000. The country is the fourth-largest producer of natural gas in the world, behind Russia, the United States, and Canada. The largest concentration of natural gas production in the UK is the Shearwater-Elgin area of the Southern Gas Basin. The area contains five non-associated gas fields—Elgin (Total), Franklin (Total), Halley (Talisman), Scoter (Shell), and Shearwater (Shell). The UK also produces signifigant amounts of associated natural gas from its oil fields in the UKCS. Like the oil industry, smaller independents have been able to acquire some maturing assets from larger operators, who find it difficult to profitably operate these older, declining fields.
Danish natural gas production has steadily increased over the last three decades, reaching 280 Bcf in 2003. More than a quarter of the country's production is re-injected to boost oil production, according to the Danish Energy Authority (DEA).
The Netherlands
In 2003, natural gas production in the Netherlands was 2.6 Tcf. Natural gas production in the country has declined, not due to natural factors, but rather government policy. The Netherlands has passed the Natural Gas Law, which caps natural gas production at 2.68 Tcf per year between 2003-2007, with this ceiling dropping to 2.47 Tcf between 2008-2013. The government made this policy decision to cut back production in order to maintain reserves for future use. According to the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dutch natural gas production will continue to remain steady or slightly decline through 2014.
The onshore Groningen field, located in the north-east of the country, accounts for about one-half of total Dutch natural gas production, with remaining production spread across small fields both onshore and in the North Sea. The largest offshore field is K15. Nederlandse Aarodolie Maatschappij (NAM), a consortium of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, operates both K15 and the Groningen field.
Germany produced 785 Bcf of natural gas in 2003. Nearly all of Germany's natural gas production is located onshore. The country does have one offshore natural gas field, A6-B4, located in the German sector of North Sea, which began production in 2000. The largest natural gas producer in Germany is BEB, a consortium of Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, which controls half of the country's domestic natural gas production.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Norway has a small liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal located in Tjeldbergodden, with a capacity of only 12,000 tonnes per year (t/y). In 2004, all output from this plant went to Sweden, according to Statistics Norway. On a much larger scale, Statoil plans to construct an LNG export terminal at Melkoya, near Hammerfest. The Melkoya facility, which will be the first large-scale LNG export terminal in Europe, will consist of an anchored barge with pipeline connections to the Snohvit project. Statoil plans to have the the project online by the end of 2006, with an initial capacity of 4.1 million t/y (202 Bcf of natural gas) and a potential expansion to 8.2 million t/y. Most of the output from the Melkoya facility has already been contracted to El Paso for delivery to the United States, with smaller amounts going to Iberdrola in Spain.
The UK has a single LNG import terminal, though there are several in various planning stages. NGT operates the Isle of Grain LNG terminal, a converted natural gas storage facility in southern England. The terminal has a natural gas processing capacity of 470 Mmcf/d, with plans to eventually increase capacity to 1.5 Bcf/d. The terminal received its first delivery of LNG in July 2005 from Algeria.
ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum have received regulatory approval for the South Hook LNG receiving terminal in Milton Haven, Wales. The terminal will be dedicated to receiving LNG from the Qatargas II liquefaction project in Ras Laffin, Qatar, which is also a joint project between the two companies. The South Hook LNG project is scheduled to come online by 2007, with an initial capacity of 1.0 Bcf/d and a maximum capacity of 2.1 Bcf/d by 2009. Finally, BG has partnered with Netherlands-based Petroplus and Malaysia-based Petronas to also build an LNG receiving terminal in Milton Haven on the site of an existing natural gas storage facility owned by Petroplus. The companies received regulatory approval from Ofgem in early 2005 for the project, called Dragon. However, the European Commission announced that it would launch an investigation into the project, because Ofgem had granted the Dragon facility a waiver from EU rules requiring that all LNG terminals be open to third-party access. If the project does attain final regulatory approval, Dragon should be completed by the end of 2007 with an initial capacity of 580 Mmcf/d.
There has been discussion concerning the construction of two LNG receiving terminals in the Netherlands, at Eemshaven and Rotterdam, though neither project has progressed beyong the initial planning stages. These LNG terminals would likely facilitate re-exports to the rest of Europe, as the Netherlands is able to meet it own consumption through domestic production. A proposed LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany has also been considered.
Further Reading
- EIA: North Sea Background
- The Economist: North Sea Oil and Gas, the Long Goodbye
- BBC News: Norway Prepares for Dry North Sea
- UK Department of Trade and Industry: Oil and Gas Industry Overview
Disclaimer: This article is taken wholly from, or contains information that was originally published by, the Energy Information Administration. Topic editors and authors for the Encyclopedia of Earth may have edited its content or added new information. The use of information from the Energy Information Administration should not be construed as support for or endorsement by that organization for any new information added by EoE personnel, or for any editing of the original content.


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Dances of Galánta
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Composed: 1933
Length: c. 13 minutes
Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (orchestral bells, snare drum, triangle), and strings
First Los Angeles Philharmonic performance: July 30, 1944, Antal Dorati conducting
Of the research that Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began to make during the first decade of this century, Bartók wrote, in 1922: "We found in the most ancient Hungarian peasant music what at last proved to be suitable material for forming the basis of a higher Hungarian art music." And, six years later, in an article for the American periodical Pro Musica: "I am convinced that each of our Hungarian folk melodies is a…paragon of artistry of the highest order. In many ways, I regard these folk songs just as great works of art as…a fugue by Bach or a sonata by Mozart... we may learn from this music an unparalleled terseness of expression... exactly what we were craving after the diffuse loquacity of the Romantic period." And finally, in the same article, "If I were asked to name the composer whose works are the most perfect embodiment of the Hungarian spirit, I would answer, Kodály. His work proves his faith in the Hungarian spirit… His composing activity is rooted only in Hungarian soil."
Bartók's faith eventually flickered and he left Hungary forever on the eve of World War II. Kodály remained, maintaining his position as an artistic and moral leader - composer, folklorist, educator - through the years of Fascist and Communist dictatorships, both of which he despised.
It is hardly an oversimplification to say that Kodály was a traditionalist - in the best sense of the term. While both had at the core of their musical creativity the Hungarian folk music their German-trained teachers considered good for nothing more than dashes of color, as in the "Gypsy" finale of Brahms' G-minor Piano Quartet, Bartók took what he found there and merged it into a complex, 20th-century musical idiom entirely his own. Kodály, on the other hand, allowed the folk element to take center stage, to be his music: e.g., his most celebrated stage work, Háry Janós - a folk play with music, lots of music - of whose 20 musical numbers 16 are arrangements of Hungarian folk songs.
On a smaller scale, the beguiling Dances of Galánta are likewise arrangements of existing material, music of a sort that the composer may first have encountered as a child in the Hungarian town of Galánta (today in Slovakia), on the rail line - his father, Frigyes, was the Galánta station-master - from Budapest to Vienna. One is tempted to say that he simply took the folk music and put it into fancy concert-hall dress. But this would be to minimize his genius as an orchestrator.
In 1933, when commissioned to create a work for the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society, Kodály took these specific melodies from a volume of Hungarian dances published in Vienna a century earlier. Thus, the source material is not to be confused with music collected by Kodály and Bartók on their expeditions into the countryside.
Kodály's work is an expanded verbunkos (from the German werben, to recruit), the verbunkos being in 18th- and 19th-century Hungary a dance-show put on by the recruiting sergeant and his hussars for the potential enlistees, the message being that the soldier's life is endless fun.
The verbunkos traditionally consists of two sections, the lassú (literally, "slow") and the friss ("fresh"). The structure of Kodály's Dances of Galánta consists of a three-part lassú (the orchestral introduction, the clarinet's cadenza, and the subsequent luscious andante maestoso section) followed by a friss that begins allegro moderato and then erupts into four different fast dances, separated by brief references to the andante maestoso.
- Herbert Glass, after many years as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has for the past decade been the English-language annotator and editor for the Salzburg Festival.


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For city dwellers around the world, the starry night sky is something we rarely get to admire. Instead of gazing up at Ursa Major [1] and Cassiopeia [2], we're treated to flickering city street lights and lingering smog. To draw attention to the fact that light and air pollution are making our night sky disappear, The Windmill Factory art collective [3] has recreated the night sky in the most unusual of places: New York City's Hudson River. Called 'Reflecting the Stars [4],' the eco-art installation consists of 201 solar-powered LED lights installed on a decaying pier off of Hudson River Park. Up through October 25, the artwork [5] aims to give New Yorkers a chance to experience the stars.
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I don't know if you will answer this question, it's actually two.
First was you had made some tights that were the faux garter and then the garter stockings. Will you be making those for the Slink body at all? The same ones I mean. I really love all your tights/stockings and the styles you have released already.
Second is, I was just curious what skin that is you use in the pictures?
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Hi Jess,
I am trying to figure out the best way to go about updating my socks/stockings/tights. I have made a LOT of them for Slink, so I'm not sure I will be able to update them all. Any future releases will include a physique applier though.
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Dr. Jue's presentation gave a detailed overview of the different attempts that have been made to place an economic value on elements of nature. Dr. Jue did an excellent job of both explaining what methods could possibly used to value such things and the difficulties involved in the actual valuation process. Specific examples from the presentation included looking at the monetary worth of the arctic polar bear, the honey bee, and the wolves of Yellowstone National Park. Overall, Dr. Jue did an excellent job of highlighting a unique way individuals can view their responsibility to the environment.
The Faculty Relations Committee thanks Dr. Jue and appreciates the professors that share their research in order to better inform students of the fantastic endeavors of the very people that make our futures in the work force more valuable. Make sure to keep an eye out on those fabulous McCombs bulletin boards for information about the next FRP! You won't want to miss the opportunity.


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Being an avid golfer and a past supporter of Bennett Valley Golf Course, I was amazed that more money is being spent to hire a consulting firm to diagnose and fix problems that they did not even address.
We don't need to hire a consulting firm to find out what the problems are. If someone in a decision-making capacity with only a basic understanding of a golfer's mentality had visited any or all of the other golf courses in Sonoma County and asked a few of the golfers why they weren't playing at Bennett Valley, the answers would have been revealing, and the solution to Bennett Valley's problem inexpensive.
I actually did this at Foxtail Golf in Rohnert Park and Windsor Golf over the past 10 days. First, Iasked 10 golfers at each course if they ever played at Bennett Valley. Of the 20 golfers questioned, 17 had played there and liked the course, but they all said something to the effect of, a 5-to-6-hour round of golf is ridiculous.
In a nutshell, the problem is defined: I used to play there, but it takes too long, and you have to wait between every shot.
The last time I played at Bennett Valley was in 2012 (when there weren't many players and the parking lot was half full). I left after nine holes because it had taken three hours and 20 minutes to play that many holes. That's more than a six-hour round of golf.
I can typically play 18 holes with four people, walking the course, in less than 4 hours at every other course I play. When I complained to the course management at Bennett Valley, I was told, 'This is a public course, and we can't enforce any time restrictions.'
I've played many public courses in many states, and I have never seen a course that doesn't have golf marshals enforcing the basic rules of golf, one of which is time restrictions on players who are playing too slowly.
Want to fix the problem? Put golfers on the clock, and put marshals on the course to enforce the rule. I would be happy to play there. It is one of the most enjoyable and well-maintained golf courses in Northern California. But I don't enjoy a round of golf that requires me to wait five minutes or longer between shots.
So I won't be back, nor will any of the golfers I play with, until this problem is fixed.
And for the bean-counters, I estimate that just for my foursome, this amounts to lost revenue of more than $1,900 per year (at Bennett Valley's old rates). And that's not counting the lost revenue from other purchases such as golf balls, clothing, food and beer. Then, of course, there's the lost revenue from us not being there for the 19th hole.
In the meantime, good luck to the city of Santa Rosa with its 'bean counting' efforts. It has done nothing that will increase play at Bennett Valley. In fact, what the city has done will actually decrease play and revenue even further.
Just fix the slow play problem and we'll all be back at Bennett Valley.
<i>Ken Ruff is a Santa Rosa resident and an avid golfer.</i>


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Big spread in gas prices
According to AAA, the average price for regular gasoline is $3.53 a gallon in the Bergen-Passaic area today. That's a penny more than the statewide average, but 11 cents less than the national average.
But that's only part of the story. Driving around the region you'll find a wide gap between the highs and lows. Yesterday I spotted a number of stations—in Teaneck, Hackensack, Saddle Brook and Bogota—charging $3.39 per gallon if you pay cash. At the same time there are still many stations charging more than $3.59 a gallon.
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text: Google's self-driving cars spurned by manufacturers Autopia 24 August 13 by Duncan Geere One of Google's self-driving fleetRomanboed / CC BY 2.0 Google is intending to design and develop its own self-driving cars after being brushed off by the major car companies, according to reports.The company, which made its name with its search engine, has held talks with a number of manufacturers to build cars to Google's specifications -- a bit like the company's early approach to Android.But the talks failed to yield a deal, so Google is planning to build the vehicles itself instead -- a bit like its more recent approach to laptops with Chromebooks.Google is considering selling its cars to individuals, but is also mulling a "robo-taxi" service that picks passengers up on-demand and delivers them to their destination. The idea, according to former Wall St Journal reporter Amir Efrati quoting an anonymous source, is to pressure the major car companies into embracing self-driving technology.Such taxis would initially, for safety, include someone sitting behind the wheel in case of emergencies. But longer-term that may no longer be the case.The challenge will be commercialising the project. Google will need to make a distribution deal with a car company that has existing dealer relationships. Plus they'll be expensive -- its existing fleet of Toyota hybrids cost $150,000 (£96,000) each. Finally, it'll need to clear regulatory hurdles. Many countries and US states have no legislation covering autonomous vehicles on public roads. Latest on wired.co.uk


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It's not science fiction or an urban myth, sometimes people don't buy something for an entire day.
If you want to be one of these super humans, try to do it with the rest of us on November 25th. Instead of heading to the mall, make some coffee, sit down, and breathe deeply….and then realize how great it is not to be part of a shopping frenzy. You're welcome. For more information on Buy Nothing Day, check out the REMP website, under Links and Resources!
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We provide a variety of handmade and CNC carved gift items. All pens are handmade and make an excellent gift. Pen boxes are laser engraved. Wall plaques, signs, and hand mirrors are carved with a CNC router. Although we carry many stock items, we can also customize your order using your own artwork or specifications.
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Custom laser engraved pens and boxes. Any species pen can be engraved (although the dark oak may not take engraving as well). Boxes made of maple. Must be ordered separately.
Spalted Pecan. These pens generally have a very bold grain. They are made from pecan trees downed during hurricane Rita.
"Quaking" Aspen. These pens are very light and made from wood harvested in Wyoming.
Oak (but doesn't look like it). These pens are dark for oak and have very bold grain. They are made from an oak tree that finally gave up and died after 150 years. The tree belonged to our grandfather and it was said that it was poisoned many times. It never succumbed to the poison, but we think that's what gives it a unique look. Shown here with gold and brushed aluminum clips.
Texas Mesquite. These pens are made from trees downed during hurricane Rita. They can be yellowish to reddish.
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:40 am
Do whatever you want but leave shift+drag brush resize as an option as I am using it ALL the time
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:50 am
*sigh* This issue is actually quite complicated, isn't it. There are basically at least 4 or 5 types of users, all with likely different opinions on shortcuts:
- Mouse users. This group Loves the shift+drag resizing, for example. Hands down a favorite feature. I know several users who switched to Krita Just for this feature.
- Graphics tablet frequently using keyboards. Shortcuts are OK, but they can vary size with pressure.
- Graphics tablet not using keyboards, they can set some shortcuts to one of the buttons on their tablet, but "everything via shortcuts" = boo.
- Draw-on-screen with a pen. Since they're drawing directly on the screen, anything that forces them to use shortcuts/keyboard is a step back.
- Draw-on-a-screen with fingers. Krita Sketch, basically. And same issues as above.
Apart from that, you can further sub-divide into groups of users:
- Artists that draw mostly organic forms would care mostly about freehand tools, so it's no big deal if lines are a bit hard to access.
- Those who draw architectural forms need better line tools performance and access.
- .... etc.?
Now, at this point, the only solution I can think of that could Maybe satisfy everyone is a panel you access by clicking a button somewhere, for Freehand for example, and you get a pop-up with a list of modifiers + drop-down:
- Shift:
- Alt:
- Ctrl:
- Space:
- And a bunch of options for uh.... tablet buttons and touch-screen.
From there you can choose what each function does: draw straight line, modify size, modify rotation, switch to color picker, Whatever. Then you can either assign this as default, or create a custom tool preset out of it, which you can access from... not sure, a custom toolbar, custom shortcuts (maybe even something like Shift+[number]), a subset of the right-click wheel, etc.
Of course, if someone else can come up with a much more awesome idea, that'd be, well, much more awesome. I'm personally not That thrilled about this idea, but it does seem like a solution where users can get what they want without other users screaming bloody murder. You may think, by the way, that modifying the default is enough, but in fact I'm hoping for more drawing sub-modes for the drawing tools, so custom presets would be handy.
.... and when you create custom brush presets, you could have an extra box to check if you want to remember the tool settings used. I mean, some brushes are only used with freehand, some with lines, etc. No wait, if you can save the tool settings to a preset, then you don't actually need to save tool settings separately, probably.
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:41 am
Personally I dont see anything bad in separate tool for straight lines. When it comes to changing size though... It is much more vital problem. I am a tablet user but you cant vary size with pressure, come on. I mean ofcourse you can but pressure sensitivity isn't there to replace changing general size of the brush. It is to vary size within chosen extremes. But you still need to choose maximum size. Also using tablet doesn't mean you will only use brushes that change size with pressure. In fact I am using almost exclusively those that don't. Pressure may be used for different things as transparency (I guess most popular brush in the world - rounded hard brush with transparency controlled by pressure). All the good programs allow to change brush size in some user friendly way as this is really important stuff that one is dealing with all the time. I really miss that kind of smooth size change in MyPaint - Krita is just perfect as it is. For me.
And that's the problem - for me doesn't mean for everybody (sadly ). So potential changes should leave configuration choices without restricting others from working as they used to. I would hate if somebody took away existing option that is used practically all the time and replace it with occasionally used by some option...
All this straight line problem for me is a bit exaggerated and I tell you why. Krita is mainly drawing/painting software, right? Using straight lines in drawing/painting isnt that common - most is done with freehand tools. There is functionality of straight lines already so if you need to draw them you can. If you are making lets say some architectural sketch/drawing you will stay in that tool quite a bit, its not like you will constantly have to jump between freehand and straight lines. So while I am all for letting people choose what they want shift to do, I will respectfully oppose idea of alienating by default undoubtedly important size changing with occasionally needed lines.
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:48 am
If we're at it, can I put down a proposal for assignable functions to rightclick/ctrl+click/shift+click in general?
People have mentioned preffering straight lines on the shift, and I myself would much rather have the colourpicker on rightclick than the quick menu(which is near useless to me), perhaps someone else wants the pan or eraser tool on rightclick, and rotate on crtl+click.
I think, allowing flexibility in this, and the reworking of the hotkey system as discussed in the mailing list would take a lot of debate on which hotkey a new function is supposed to have: people can just choose for themselves.(and easily backup for themselves)
Edit:What vallerie said. >_<
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:07 am
My GUI proposal for a solution that will hopefully make all some users happy(er):
(and any other modifiers available added to the list)
Me, I'm setting Shift for ALL tools to modify size.
Edit: oh yeah, and for the "easy line with varying size": (works only for vector-like tools such as straight lines and path, greyed out for freehand etc.)
What this does is take the curve as though it were the pressure input while drawing that line, and apply all dynamics that are mapped to pressure. Easy access, easy edit, maybe possible to detach just like the brush engine drop-down, etc.
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Re: Instant straight lines
Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:12 pm
nevermind guys, I'll just use a ruler
it looks like the discussion is hovering more around configuring modifiers,
I would direct the developers attention to the japanese program clip studio, or its english distribution, manga studio, for its keyboard shortcut dialog. It may give some idea on how to approach it. I found last night that this program's line tool also has some excellent features for dynamics on lines.
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Re: Instant straight lines
Tue May 28, 2013 1:47 pm
Just my thoughts on geometric type stuff. Straightlines etc. Mypaint has this really well sorted. It's awesome and no messing around with complexity on the canvas. You can also draw a straight line then hold shift to bend that line wherever you grab it. This is an great feature. I don't know if that can be done in Krita. There is also a graph to draw the line pressure. That's quite useful as well. Of course in Krita you have the extra ruler tools for very precise line control and that is useful for sure because you are actually drawing the line the way you want it to appear in terms of pressure etc but quick straight lines or elipses just by drawing exactly like in Mypaint is a great method.
In a real world example. Lets say you want to draw lots of elipses quickly. In Krita this is simply a hassle but in Mypaint you select the elipse tool and draw hundreds of elipses immediately if you want. The severity of the elipse is controlled by pen movement in one direction and the other direction is size. Once again shift is utilised but this time to change the angle of the elipse. This is awesome. Also, the connected straight line tool allows shift to bend the last connected line. Maybe there are other tricks but these functions alone are perfect and make Mypaint hands down the best app for any line drawing work.
Registered Member
Re: Instant straight lines
Tue May 28, 2013 2:07 pm
I have a question about the straight line tool in Krita. The tool options has Varying End-Points yet This doesn't seem to do anything or am I doing something wrong?
Registered Member
Re: Instant straight lines
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:42 pm
revisiting the line tool here:
I'm beginning to agree with having the line tool as a separate tool, mainly because it gets extra features like varying end points and ALT drag the line - but the standalone tool has soon quirks that make it harder to use than the native brush tool. the one thats getting me is that you don't get to see the actual stroke when you are in mid drag. its a preview pink vector, and then when you let go you see the line. this is problematic when you are laying a big fat line because you don't know how its gonna lay when you let go, so alt drag moving it doesnt really help. another one is there is no previews when using the symmetry modes, so again you really don't know what you are gonna get. last one is that when you constrain the line to an axis with shift, all the varying pressure/tilt/endpoints features for some reason are turned off. could we maybe see some improvements on the line tool if a shift constrain from the normal brush isn't going to happen?
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Re: Instant straight lines
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:58 pm
Well, sure... We're really open to all suggestions for improvements! Just keep in mind that are so many things to hack on, to improve, fix, or make faster... There's some kind of prioritization needed. If you search bugs.kde.org for Krita, you'll find about 150 bugs and about as many registered 'wishes' -- that is, feature requests. And all of them make sense: otherwise we'd have closed them already .
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text: petrolbonce October 28, 2012 8:38 PM @Jiri Simek you're right up to a point. Doohan won his five titles without that much notable opposition. Although I'm pretty sure he could have won titles anyway. Where it gets stupid is when people say that he would have won more had it not been for a couple of very nasty crashes.Sure IF Doohan hadn't crashed at Assen things could have gone differently, but then you have to ask what would have happened IF Rainey hadn't crashed at Misano. Would Doohan ever have won a title at all?In a sport like this IF means absolutely nothing. Things are too complex. There are those who claim that Schwantz would never have been champion had Rainey not crashed. It's a point of view, but IF Rainey hadn't crashed in 93 then Kevin would have been a different man in the 94 season. And so on.I can't be doing with IF. Doohan won five titles and thats one hell of an impressive CV, but that's all you can say. No ifs, no buts, five titles.


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Organize a harvest of local fruit and vegetables from your work colleagues or group members' backyards. Iskashitaa staff would love to come and speak with your group about our organization, pass out flyers, and answer questions. After our discussion, you can ask members to bring their neighbors fruit to your next meeting. Iskashitaa volunteers will pick up the bounty from your meeting site -or better yet, arrange for a member to drop the fruit off at our office. We can supply bins and pickers and we will surely come to another meeting to tell stories of all the refugees you served!
Contact us if you're interested in organizing one or more harvests with your business, organization, or group. We're looking for lemons, tangerines, loquats, grape-fruit, oranges, pecans, and more!
What could be more fun then joining your friends for a day in the sun while helping get food for families in need? We provide water, lots of produce to taste test, and harvesting supplies. We also take the time to teach you about refugees, our mission, and local foods! We can accommodate most schedules with sufficient notice and we always make time for fun along the way! If your group is focused on service learning, we can help your group to make connections as they work! Refugees who receive food from Iskashitaa would be thrilled to harvest with you. Please let us know if this is of interest to you.
What does your group need? Transportation is one of the most important things each group supplies. To travel to your harvest sites, it is best to have smaller groups in each vehicle but we can accommodate larger vans by dropping groups and staggering harvest sites. Supplies to be outdoors: Tucson can be surprisingly cold and painfully hot. Please bring water, a hat, and sufficient clothes to keep yourself comfortable outside. Extra Seats If you are interested in having refugees along for your harvest, it would be great if they could travel with you. Not only does this allow the harvesters to practice their English but they can share their story along the way!
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Relief pitcher Christian Chavira took the mound during Madera's Babe Ruth Championship game last week and met one of the most high-pressure situations in baseball.
With two on, no outs, and his Round Table Pizza team up 7-3 in the top of the seventh inning, Chavira walked his first batter, Central Cal Transportation shortstop Caleb Pursell, on five pitches.
That meant Central Cal's Nate Encinar, already with two hits and an RBI, was up as the tying run with cleanup hitter Michael Berra on deck.
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Enduring America, a useful sources for media summations on Syria and (highly-debated) FSA claims of successes suggests that FSA forces are indeed increasingly gaining ground against Assad:
For several weeks there has been a growing number of rumors, low-quality Youtube videos, and eyewitness reports that suggested that not only was the FSA winning in Deir Ez Zor, Lattakia, and Aleppo, but it was on the brink of major victories in all three provinces. Similarly, there is a growing body of inconclusive evidence that the FSA is surging in Daraa province, and was increasingly effective in and around Damascus. While individual reports of this nature may or may not each be true, the trend lines were beginning to look clear.
The spread of the rebellion throughout the country means that even the vaunted internal security forces have to weigh whether moving one force to Point A will weaken Point B fatally, is surely impacting developments on the ground – desertion and heavy casualties continue to mount for the state's forces. And Syria's unwillingness to pursue the fight all the way to the Turkish or Iraqi borders for fear of igniting a wider conflagration must give breathing room not just to refugees, but to arms smugglers and militiamen:
For more than a week … that body of evidence has been harder and harder to dismiss as noise and rumor. With well documented victories yesterday, the FSA has encouraged us to post headlines that we have been sitting on for a long time.


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It is no secret that food brings us together, whether it is sharing a meal or swapping recipe ideas with friends. And while our palates and dishes are ever evolving, our most important tool-our kitchens,-is often ignored and remains stuck in the past. Get your kitchen out of its slump by following these simple tips to improve your kitchen and better your life! While you're at it, why not also check out these great guides to making your kitchen greener and more beautiful!


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The last time Calvin Davis was in a Leon County courtroom, the jury was deadlocked. Calvin Davis,is the man accused of murder and christopher thomas, is the victim. Thursay in court, for the second time, two families sat on opposite sides of the courtroom.
Witnesses tell police that a fight started when two cars came too close to each other. Police were told the gun that killed thomas was pulled out by Calvin Davis.
From the stand, lead investigator Tom Maltise spoke of the night in question. Hilda Hall, says Davis came to her home late in the evening, December 17, 1999, because Davis' brother was there. She told the jury that she heard Csay he had done something, but she also admits to not hearing the whole conversation.
Another investigator took the stand the second morning of the trial, talking about witnesses and photographic line-ups. Police say that when the shooting occurred there were about 200 people around the McDonald's. Some witnesses, who didn't take the stand Wednesday, say they remember hearingTthomas claiming to have a weapon.
His lawyer Cheryl Gentry has not indicated either way just yet. It's highly likely this trial will continue on into next week.
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OKALOOSA COUNTY - Okaloosa County sheriff's investigators have arrested two Ft. Walton Beach residents in-connection with a counterfeiting scheme.
33 year old Shawn Lee Morse and 25 year old Meghan Leann Park are facing counterfeiting and drug charges.
Investigators say they developed the pair as suspects after they began receiving dozens of counterfeiting complaints from local businesses since January 1st.
When they searched the couple's home on Monahan Drive, they claim they found uncut and loose counterfeit ones, fives, tens and twenties, as well as marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
They also say Morse admitted he was exchanging the fake bills for methamphetamine. Sheriff's officials and secret service agents are investigating the case and say there could be more arrests.
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Brigadier Gen. Vincent A. Coglianese pins the Fleet Marine Force badge onto Chief Petty Officer Julius B. Letargo, a leading chief petty officer with Medical Logistics Company, 1st Supply Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, during a pinning ceremony aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 10, 2013. When a sailor initially joins a Marine command, the sailor must learn about the mission, capabilities, customs, traditions and history of the Marine Corps as one of the requirements to earn the FMF badge. (Courtesy photo)
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Personal: Civil Engineering major ... Son of David and Silvia Salera ... Has two brothers, Dave (20) and Christian (15) ... Born 10/7/88.
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Harry Warnick Races in Championship Section of 5000 Meters at Penn Relays
Junior distance runner Harry Warnick (Fairfield, Conn.) closed out the first day of competition at the Penn Relays by running in the Championship section of the 5000 meters at Franklin Field on Thursday night. Warnick recorded a time of 14:33.56 and came in 10th in his section in a race that was not run until after 10 p.m.
Purcell Tallies Personal Best Time in 400 Meters at Larry Ellis Invitational
Freshman sprinter Harry Purcell (Dublin, Ireland) finished third out of 42 runners in the 400 meters to highlight competition for Villanova at the Larry Ellis Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Two days of competition wrapped up at Weaver Stadium with the Wildcats competing in six different events.
Middle Distance Runners Have Success at Larry Ellis Invitational
Several middle distance runners produced strong results in the Elite sections of the 800 meters and the 1500 meters as Villanova started a busy weekend of competition at the Larry Ellis Invitational on Friday night. The top performers for the Wildcats in Friday's action at Weaver Stadium were freshman Ville Lampinen (Vantaa, Finland) in the 800 meters and sophomore Ben Malone (River Vale, N.J.) in the 1500 meters. In all, the Wildcats had athletes entered in six different events on the first day of the meet.
Elcock and Judge Register Personal Best Marks at Princeton Outdoor Invite
Freshmen field athletes Aaron Elcock (West Chester, Pa.) and Jack Judge (Palisades, N.Y.) recorded personal best marks in the triple jump and the javelin, respectively, during competition at the Princeton Outdoor Invite at Weaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Villanova had athletes competing in eight different events on Saturday, including three running events and five field events.
Villanova Sprinters Look Strong in Relays at Hurricane Alumni Invitational
Villanova competed in seven different events during the Hurricane Alumni Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Of note among the team's results at Cobb Stadium were strong performances in two relays by the Wildcats, who finished as the runners-up in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:13.31. Sophomore middle distance runner Elliot Slade (Cardiff, United Kingdom) provided the team's top individual result by winning the 1500 meters.
Wildcats Compete in Six Events on First Day of Sam Howell Invitational
Sophomore thrower Paul Sheridan (Midland Park, N.J.) and freshman Jack Judge (Palisades, N.Y.) tallied a 1-2 finish in the javelin as Villanova began the weekend by competing in the Sam Howell Invitational at Weaver Stadium on Friday afternoon. The day's action for the Wildcats included competition in two running and four field events.
Wildcats Wrap Up Colonial Relays with Win in Sprint Medley Relay
A first place finish in the sprint medley relay highlighted a day of limited action for Villanova as the Colonial Relays wrapped up at Zable Stadium on Saturday afternoon. In addition to the relay, the Wildcats had two athletes competing individually in the field events. Villanova tied for a 12th place finish out of 44 teams who scored points during the three-day meet.
Ben Malone Wins 1500 Meters at Colonial Relays
Sophomore middle distance runner Ben Malone (River Vale, N.J.) won the seeded section of the 1500 meters and was one of three Villanova athletes who registered personal best times at the Colonial Relays on Friday afternoon. Two days of competition at Zable Stadium started on a strong note for the Wildcats, who scored 21 team points on the day.


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Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on Nginx
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<translate> Search engine friendly (SEF), human-readable or clean URLs are URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to. Since version 1.5, Joomla! is capable of creating and parsing URLs in any format, including SEF URLs. This does not depend on URL rewriting executed by the web server, so it works even if Joomla! runs a server other than Apache with the mod_rewrite module. The SEF URLs follow a certain fixed pattern, but the user can define a short descriptive text (alias) for each segment of the URL.
Internally, the local part of a SEF URL (the part after the domain name) is called a route. Creating and processing SEF URLs is therefore referred to as routing, and the relevant code is called a router. </translate>
This article addresses SEF URLs under the popular, open-source Nginx webserver.
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This is my first post here, hopefully I post in the right place. I have an old TPT, perfect device for my kids, all it need to do is run Zoodles. Was running fine with CM9, then one day, a couple of months back, it got stock on the Lenovo boot splash. Was getting ready to move so it made it in a box.
Trying to fix it now. Nut looks like I am in need of some advice and direction.
This is what I have done so far.
Boot into recovery kernel and tried to restore from my backup I had done before putting CM9 on it. Tried factory reset, None of which works.
The closest I got is with the restore of my backup, then when It rebooted, Ut got past the first Lenovo boot splash, we see Nvidia splash, then Animated Lenovo splash start, then device turns off and then back on.
Within the recovery kernel when I look at the logs, there is complaints about /data being in read-only mode during restore. I cannot unmount or format /data.
I think at this stage my best chance is to restore to stock with NVFlash. I am a little uncomfortable doing this without some advice first.
I am trying to find the model details of the device, but needless to say that being my kids tablet, all stickers are gone. I do have the device open but I am unable to track a; model number inside.
Could anyone assist? I am a professional IT, but My android knowledge is limited.
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An emotionally trying summer
Mary Cipollone '02
Waverly Children's Home
"Good morning, Tyrone, what goals would you like today?"
"Number one and number two."
"Okay, do you know what those are?"
"Interacting with peers without sexually inappropriate language or behavior and checking in with staff about my feelings when I'm consequenced."
"Great. Thanks, Tyrone."
Mornings in the Navigators' classroom at Waverly Children's Home always begin with similar exchanges between Renee, the teacher in the classroom, and each of the eight to ten students. The children at Waverly have been recommended by the public school system because they are not succeeding in mainstream classrooms. Most of them have relatively severe emotional and behavioral problems as a result of suffering young childhoods burdened by abuse or neglect.
Tyrone, for example, was placed at Waverly as a result of sexually inappropriate language and behavior. When he was nine years old, Tyrone began spending time with an older man. Although Tyrone never admitted that this man sexually abused him, it was while seeing this man that Tyrone began remarking that he wanted to cut off his genitalia. And it was only after Tyrone began spending time with this man that he began exhibiting sexualized behavior and language, an indicative sign of sexual abuse. Tyrone, an eleven-year-old boy, is now being investigated because of accusations that he has sexually offended his younger cousin. The sad truth is that over ninety percent of first-time sexual offenders become repeat offenders. So regardless of how successful Tyrone's treatment at Waverly is, Tyrone's future does not look bright.
Waverly Children's Home is comprised of both a residential treatment center and the therapeutic day school in which I worked. The philosophy behind Waverly's therapeutic schooling is to provide a safe, structured environment in which children can receive therapy within the context of the academic classroom. The Navigator's classroom is organized according to a natural consequences schedule in which a fun period follows every academic period. So after successfully completing schoolwork, a student is rewarded by enjoying break time or physical education.
Each child at Waverly has an individual plan of care with a set of long-term and short-term goals. The children work towards attaining these goals with the ultimate aim of being able to move on to a less restrictive environment. When each child enters the Navigators' classroom in the morning, they choose two of their short-term goals (which usually number about four in total) to focus on for that day. Short-term goals are behavioral in nature. Raising one's hand before speaking, maintaining appropriate body space and using appropriate voice tone are examples of short-term goals. After every period of the day, the children are given feedback as to whether they successfully completed their goals for that period. At the end of the day the children receive feedback from staff as to whether they met their goals for the entire day. This is based upon the percentage of activities during which the students successfully completed their goals. The students also have a chance to give their peers positive feedback about their days.
The primary objective of Waverly is to provide a safe environment in which these children can learn and develop. This achievement of this safe classroom, however, is partially reliant on the decisions that the children make throughout the day. To encourage safe behavior, the children are also given feedback as to whether they were "safe" or "unsafe" during the periods of the day. In the Navigators' classroom behaviors that are considered unsafe include swearing, property destruction, acting up on the bus, or any behavior that necessitates staff physically holding a child. Once a child has acted unsafely during the day, he/she is considered unsafe for the rest of the day. An unsafe student is restricted from joining the next fun period of the day. He/she must also sit at his/her desk for the rest of the day, which means that the child cannot participate in any fun periods that require students to leave their desks.
When I first arrived at Waverly the number of rules there are in the classroom overwhelmed me. Never being exposed to such a structured environment, I at first found it difficult to interact with the children because I was tentative about my understanding of the classroom. I had also been warned that because I was a new staff the children would try to manipulate me and test my limits and classroom awareness. And they certainly did. Since my previous experience with children had been in far less restrictive environments, adapting to the structure was a definite obstacle for me. I watched other staff members as they set clear limits with the children and initially interpreted their interactions with the children as uncaring. But I soon realized that most of the children at Waverly had grown up with little to no structure in their lives. No one had ever explained or modeled acceptable behaviors to these children. So not only did the children need the structure presented to them in order to succeed in mainstream society, they craved it. When a child broke a rule unnoticed he/she often pointed out his/her misbehavior because he/she desired the consistency of consequences for improper actions. And by setting limits and enforcing classroom rules, the staff was not being unkind, but helpful.
Thus I spent my first couple weeks at Waverly learning that the children I was working with were not like any children with which I had previous experience. And as I was adapting to the students, they were also adapting to me. Gradually limits that I set for children were followed rather than laughed at or ignored. The children began to accept and respect me as a member of their classroom staff. This period of adjustment was a difficult and often discouraging stage of my internship. I would find myself unable to make any progress with an acting-out student who was completely unwilling to follow even my simplest direction. And then another staff member would come along and have almost instantaneous success with de-escalating the child. I was beginning to think that I was not competent for the job and I was wasting the time of the children and the other classroom staff by being there. Fortunately, I had the positive encouragement of my colleagues to ensure me that this was not the case. And thankfully I began to make small breakthroughs.
"I'm not doing this stupid reading. I can't do it." James defiantly stated as I noticed the revealing pencil banging and arm swinging that arose whenever James was getting anxious or frustrated. Once James became oppositional it often escalated quickly to running out of the classroom or other unsafe behavior that necessitated staff putting their hands on James. And as soon as James left the classroom for more than five minutes, de-escalating his anxiety to the point where he would willingly and safely re-enter the classroom took clever work. I was hoping to help James calm down before he reached that level.
"James, you only have a little bit of reading to do. If you want I will even read it out loud with you and help you with the hard words. And you know that if you –"
"I am not doing it. I hate science. I can't read this."
"Well, what I was trying to say before you interrupted me, is that you know if you want to join the class in PE tomorrow you have to get your work done in here during your PE restriction today."
"I'm not doing it. It's too hard. I guess I'll just never go to PE again. I need to go out into the hall and take a self-time out," James responded as he began banging on his desk and standing up to leave the classroom.
As soon as James mentioned leaving the classroom, I knew that I did not have much time to help him.
"James, you need to ask to leave the classroom otherwise you will get an 'unsafe'."
"Can I go out into the hall?"
"Can I talk to you for a minute first?"
"Okay," James said as he reluctantly sat back down at his desk. I took a deep breath as I began what I knew was my last chance.
"James, I am sitting in here with you offering to help you with the few pages of reading that you need to do. I told you that I will sit down and read all of it with you if you want. You've barely even looked at the reading yet, so you can't know whether or not you can do it."
"Fine, let's try."
I could barely believe the words I was hearing. James, the student who regularly spends entire days in the hallway because he refuses to do his reading homework was willing to attempt to read with me. Success!
As my confidence in the classroom grew, the children's willingness to cooperate with me also grew. I began to take on more responsibility in the classroom. Standing in front of the students as lead staff for an activity became less daunting and more enjoyable. I found my niche among the team of staff with whom I was working and among the children.
As I got to know the children better, I realized almost every one of them aspired to be well behaved. They wanted to have safe days where they met their goals. But each child entered that classroom carrying a great deal of baggage that was not easy to put down. Learning about the lives of these children was horrifying. One child had been orphaned by her birth parents and adopted into a family that prostituted her before she was eleven years of age. Another girl's adoptive parents had created a culture of abuse within her household by teaching all the children to abuse one another. She had spent hours locked in closets as a young girl. An eleven-year-old boy's father was serving time for sexually abusing his younger sister. And we were expecting these children to be able to interact appropriately with their peers and the staff in the classroom? We were expecting them to remember to raise their hands and be able to focus on schoolwork?
Sometimes I wondered if there is any hope for these children after the wrong that has been done to them. I wondered if anything can be done to help them develop and mature into healthy, responsible adults. I worry about the futures of these kids. Because one day they are going to be too old to have Waverly Children's Home taking care of them. And they are going to be too old to receive a time-out for their misbehaviors. The children at Waverly seem to have such dim futures that at times it seemed hopeless to even try. But that was all the more reason to work harder with the hope that we might be able to shed a little light down at least one of their paths.
Working at Waverly was an incredible learning experience for me. As a Biology major, I had little academic background for working with this population of children. When I walked into the Navigators' classroom the first day, I really did not know what to expect of either the children or the classroom structure. But with patience and perseverance I was able to learn from the examples of the other staff. By the end of my stay at Waverly I was adept at handling the children and helping them to work through their anxiety and frustration. My time at Waverly also allowed me reflect on how fortunate I am to have such a loving family. The ease of my life was continuously highlighted for me in contrast to the lives of the children around me. I could not even begin to imagine experiencing the problems that these children faced. Working at Waverly solidified my desire to dedicate my lives to improving those of other people in this world. The internship has also given me the confidence that I possess many skills necessary to be a successful teacher.
Waverly Children's Home provided a wonderful environment for an internship. I received excellent training on Basic Behavior Management, Boundaries, and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention techniques. The staff was well prepared and excited for my arrival. I had the pleasure of working with a very experienced team of staff in the Navigators' classroom. Linda Girves, my supervisor and a twenty-year veteran of the field, made time every week to discuss how my internship was going. She was always there to ensure that I was having the most fulfilling experience possible during my time at Waverly. Even the staff members that I was not directly working with were supportive and interested in how I was feeling about my time at Waverly.
For me the most difficult part of working at Waverly was having to physically hold children whose behavior had escalated to a point of being unsafe to themselves and/or others. Putting my hands on an agitated child was always unpleasant. It was especially difficult when working with children who had suffered sexual or other physical abuse. Because for those children, having another person put their hands on them is a very unpleasant reminder. Having to restrain a child while listening to him scream at me to get my hands off him or watching him cry never ceased to upset me. Being a very affectionate person I always wanted to stop restraining the child and hug him instead. I wanted to cry with the child and tell her how sorry I was that she had such a difficult life. I wanted to tell her that if I had grown up in her shoes, I would be screaming profanities at anyone who came near me too. But although these were compassionate instincts, they were also unprofessional and following them would clearly not have been productive for the children. So at times I was forced to stifle my compassionate desires. But it was my compassion for the trying lives these children have endured that enabled me to walk back into the classroom everyday knowing what behaviors might confront me.
My internship at Waverly Children's Home was a challenging and gratifying experience. Working with such a difficult group of children necessitates great strength, and I have vast admiration for the people who have devoted their lives to such a worthy field. The children that I worked with have forever left an imprint on my mind and heart. Their amazing ability to laugh and have fun despite the trying lives they have suffered will constantly be an optimistic reminder to me. If I have had a small fraction of the impact on the children that they have had on me, than I am quite satisfied with what I have accomplished.


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The Mapúa Robotics Team won international recognition in the 2006 National Inventors' Week held last November 13-17 at the Philippine Trade Training Center, Pasay City.
The team was composed of the following students: Michael S. Poblete, Ivan Karl P. De Vera, Leonard C. Canoza, Jaylord T. Jauod, Harry Balanay, Paul Kevin Diaz, and Charles S. Rico.
The Mapúan's winning project is "The Low-Cost Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)." This innovation was designed to perform such tasks as salvaging assistance, ship hull inspection, accident investigation, toxic waste inspection, small item recovery, and oil rig pipe inspection. This Mapúa invention can go as deep as 300 feet with maximum horizontal speed at 1.18 feet/second and maximum vertical speed at 0.9 feet/second. Weighing only 4 kg, its turn rate is 45 degrees/second.
The ROV won the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Award, an international recognition given for creative research and inventions. The project won three other major awards: SIBOL Award (college level) for Outstanding Student Creative Research ( 1 st Place); Philips Most Promising Invention Award (college category – 1 st Place); and the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., Award (college level) for Outstanding Student Creative Research ( 1 st Place).
The Mapúa Robotics Team received the awards after a week-long exhibition of the entries of the 17 finalists.
The 5-day event was organized and sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), thru the Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI).
The Mapúa Robotics members were given the Special Merit Award for Research Excellence during the 128th Commencement Exercises of Mapúa. (3rd Row, L-R) Aaron Plata and Jaylord Jaoud; (2nd Row, L-R): Harry Balanay, Michael Poblete, Engr. Roel John C. Judilla (adviser), Charles Rico and Paul Kevin Diaz; (1st Row, L-R) Andrew Alcomendras, Ivan de Vera and Leonard Canoza. Not in the photo is Engr. Sherwin S. Magon, one of the team's advisers.
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