text:
Opinion: THE mainstream media today chose to focus on the massive threat the UK faced from Cyber-terrorists, instead of an impressive cornerstone of government policy that will slash the threat from real world terrorism and strengthen government coffers.
The prospect of a 10% annual fare hike may at first not sit well with rail commuters on the Sleepyville to Alphaville branch line; that is until they consider the massive benefits in comfort and safety.
Not only will the plebs be forced off the line, leaving you free to downscale from a First season ticket without facing the prospect of sitting next to a pompous old nurse, smelly social worker or boring police specialist child protection civilian support worker; but very soon you can stop worrying about the swarthy-looking twenty-something bearded male stood sweating over by the lavatory carrying a rucksack - since the price hike is cunningly designed to price Al Qaeda operatives off the railways.
Heaven only knows why, on the day that this keynote policy was unveiled - along with several other price increases or service cutbacks also designed to improve public safety, such as the abandonment of child cancer care centres across the north and a 300% increase in pest control services in Surrey - the media chose to focus on the notional threat of Armageddon-by-Internet.
Government spokesman Andy Hack said he was disappointed the media had overlooked key policies to focus on a plot line from the 80's film War Games.
"This raft of cuts and price increases will save us all," said Mr Hack, adding: "and if you don't believe that, then the irresponsible Labour government is entirely to blame for this raft of cuts and price increases."
Meanwhile across Whitehall, media reports that the Conservative Party website was hacked this weekend were denied, with a party official insisting that Boris Johnson has indeed been chosen to stand for a second term as the official Conservative candidate for Mayor of London. "Mr Johnson is standing - this is not a joke."

subset: commoncrawl


text:
This month I wanted to talk about a FREE resource on our website called "Should I File a Claim Calculator". This is a very powerful tool to help you figure out if you should file a claim or pay for the repairs out of your pocket. You can watch the video here to learn why you… Continue Reading.
Visit Us
227 W State Road, Island Lake, IL 60042
Monday - Thursday 7:30am-5:30pm
Friday 7:30am-5:00pm
Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm
- Categories
How to SAVE Money on Rising Gas Prices
The price of gas is on the rise again for the summer. Recently, we recorded 2 videos with a total of 6 ways you can save money on rising gas prices this summer. Please feel free to share them with your friends, relatives, and coworkers. The links to the YouTube videos are hyperlinked here & here…. Continue Reading.
Direct Repair Program (DRP) the other 1/2 of insurance steering
Direct Repair Program commonly know as DRP is the auto body shop side of insurance steering (See Video below). The DRP is a contract agreement between a auto body shop and a insurance company. For all the large well known insurance companies the auto body shop gives the insurance company discounts and provides free services as… Continue Reading.


text:
Only if the worksheets are simplified and used in isolation: no group discussion, no Socratic dialogue with a knowledgeable instructor, and no emphasis on pre-class research.
Programmed instruction is when students work through long sets of questions or problems to which the answers immediately appear for rapid feedback. The concept is based on B.F. Skinner's research into operant conditioning, where behavior modification occurs as a result of reinforcments or punishments immediately following subject actions. In programmed instruction, the subject is the student, the desired behavior modification is student comprehension of the material, and the reinforcement/punishment feedback comes in the form of satisfaction or disappointment following comparison of the student's personal answers with the correct answers given immediately after each question. On the surface, it may appear that these worksheets are nothing more than that.
Indeed, if students learn in isolation from one another, doing nothing but completing such worksheets, it would be little more than programmed instruction. This is why I caution against using these worksheets as ends rather than means. The questions contained in these worksheets, and their respective answers, are merely catalysts for learning. They do not constitute a complete learning program in and of themselves.
Answers are given to the worksheet questions only as indicators of success: so that students may be able to determine on their own whether or not their research and problem-solving efforts have been fruitful. They are purposefully minimal, giving only enough information to confirm or deny correctness, and should never be considered the "final word" on any problem. This constitutes my primary argument against programmed instruction: that it defines learning as a programmed response, the ability to provide concise verbal responses to carefully structured questions.
The real answers to these worksheet questions are the information sources, methods of problem-solving, and other cognitive strategies used by students to solve the problems contained therein. The actual questions and answers themselves are almost incidental. What will most benefit the student in their years to come is the ability to think and to learn on their own, as they encounter the challenges of their careers and of life in general. It is in the dynamic classroom environment, in discussion with the instructor and with student peers, that these abilities develop. And it is in preparation for such rich learning experiences that worksheets like these find their greatest value.


text:
Ramsbottom Festival will be celebrating its fifth birthday with a line-up full of Northern clout, revealing headline acts as Idlewild and The Proclaimers. The three-day festival will also include performances by Ciaran Lavery, Tom Robinson Band and Mark Radcliffe's Galleon Blast, with many more acts to be announced over the coming months.
Roll in by stream train, take in the surrounding hills of the West Pennines and camp out in the Lancashire countryside – Rammy with its riverside location is one festival which can truly be called beautiful. Its eclectic mix of indie, rock and folk music, as well as family arts shows and specially brewed ales, combine to make it a fully fledged member of the summer festival circuit that maintains its laid back boutique feel.
Scottish five-piece Idlewild will headline on Saturday with tracks from their new album, 'Everything Ever Written'. Scot brothers Charlie and Craig Reid of The Proclaimers will perform to crowds on Sunday, singing material from their newly released album 'Let's Hear It For The Dogs', alongside folky anthems like 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) and 'Letter from America'. Friday's headliner is still to be announced.
Up-and-coming Spotify sensation Ciaran Lavery will be performing his own brand of heart-on-sleeve acoustic pop, while rock veteran and BBC 6 Music presenter Tom Robinson returns with his eponymous band, bringing new material alongside his 70s hits. Also in the line-up are DJ Mark Radcliffe's pirate themed shanty band Galleon Blast, Irish soul songstress Grainne Duffy, folk-blues singer Marc O'Reilly and Manchester's own Space Monkeys. Other performers include The Sundowners, Slow Readers Club, The Narrows, Rura, Flight Brigade, The Slytones, Houdini Dax, Edward II, Baked A La Ska, Bendrix, Moulettes and David Gibb.
What's new for Rammy's fifth birthday?
Five stages: An area dedicated to family arts becomes Rammy's fifth stage, with a curious crew of puppeteers, musicians, acrobats, dancers and storytellers leading performances and workshops – learn the art of stone balancing and soul tap.
Home brew: Silver Street Brewery brings you the taste of Rammy 2015 with a special edition Ramsbottom Festival beer, a light easy drinking ale perfect for the end of summer.
New commission: Make way for artist Ruby Soho's The Marie Celestial – a walking, mechanical art installation and street theatre show featuring live, interactive and aerial circus performance and music.
Happy campers: No coaches required this year as festival goers pitch up on a new campsite next to the festival ground. It's a ten minute walk along the Irwell Sculpture Trail then out into lush open farmland.
Ssshh – Back by popular demand this year is the Silent Disco – choose your soundtrack from funk, indie, rock, northern soul, dance and reggae.
Ticket Prices
Full Festival: Family £120, Adult £55, Teen £17, Child £9
Friday Ticket: Adult £21, Teen £9, Child £6
Saturday Ticket: Adult £25, Teen £10, Child £6
Sunday Ticket: Adult £23, Teen £10, Child £6
Under 6s go free.
These are current rates, with prices increasing with the next release of tickets on 1 May.


text:
Pedagogical Ethnotechnography: A Study of the impact of Information Technology as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of Preservice Social Studies Middle School Teachers
Prince Hycy Bull, North Carolina State University, United States
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-44-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
In February 2000, the United States Department of Education realizing that there was a critical need to integrate technology in teacher education programs and teaching, issued this challenge to all higher educational institutions to integrate technology as a pedagogical tool. Purpose of study The purpose of this research is to study the impact of information technology as a pedagogical tool: · On the attitudes, self-efficacy and practices of preservice middle school social studies teachers toward technology information; · To analyze how effectively information technology is integrated and modeled in the course; · To identify factors that enhanced their practices in using information technology. Theoretical framework Two theoretical frameworks guide this study: social cognitive theory and constructivist learning theory. The social cognitive theory states that behavior, cognition and environment co-exist in a reciprocal relationship and thereby influence each other. Self-efficacy is a central theme of social cognitive theory. It states that a person's belief in performing a behavior or a task can lead to the successful completion of the task (Bandura, 1986). The second theoretical framework guiding this research is constructivism. Constructivist theory states that students' experiences, collaboration and self-construction of knowledge is relevant to instruction. According to the National Council for Education Statistics (NCES, 2000), report on teachers' use of technology, for each classroom instructional activity, teachers who reported feeling well prepared or very well prepared were more likely than teachers who reported feeling unprepared to assign students to use various technologies. Teacher Education Programs and Information Technology According to Gunter, Gunter and Wiens (1998), instructors need to strive to light a fire and motivate preservice teachers to understand the influence educational technology can have in their lives and classrooms. In a 1998 survey of 416 Colleges of Education, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE, 1999) concluded that teacher-preparation programs were not giving preservice teachers the needed training to integrate technology into their teaching. Green (1999) reiterated the view that there was enough evidence to suggest that one of the greatest challenges for college and university faculty was integrating technology into their instruction. Social Studies and Information Technology The teaching of social studies is no exception to the limited use of information technology in instruction. It was this limited use of information technology in social studies that led Martorella (1997) to assert that, " technology is a sleeping giant in the social studies curriculum" (p.511). If technology is a "sleeping giant," then, who is going to wake the sleeping giant and how effective will the giant be upon waking? This researcher argues that part of the answer to the first question can be found in the curriculum of teacher education programs and the answer to the second half of the question depends on how effectively technology-trained preservice teachers integrate technology on becoming In-service teachers. According to White (1999), the integration of technology in social studies provides opportunities to empower students and teachers and facilitates a constructivist approach. The traditional approach to social studies has been teacher centered with lecturing, reading texts, and taking tests. The transformative constructivist approach, as defined by the National Council for the Social Studies (1994), stressed the importance of technology integration at all levels of social studies education by focusing on teacher education programs as a starting point. Preservice Social Studies Teachers and Information Technology According to the research on effective social studies teaching, White (1999) stated that effective teaching and learning takes place when preservice social studies methods courses use the transformative approach. According to White, the transformative approach reflected the constructivist approach to teaching and learning, which included modeling and applying, reflecting, collaboration (Vannatta and Beyerbach, 2000), and developing an interactive community of learners (White, 1999; NCSS, 1994). The goal of every teacher education program and every methods course in social studies in integrating technology is to integrate technology within the curriculum rather than teach it in isolation (Mason et al. 2001). According to Halpin (1999), the integration of technology across the teacher education curriculum provides preservice teachers with an explanatory and discovery oriented environment enhancing their abilities to use different computer applications for instructional purpose. Halpin states that the use of technology facilitates a problem-solving environment, a tenet of constructivist theory, with the goal to motivate students to seek information and solve problems. Keiper, Harwood and Larson (2000) state that integration of technology-enabled teaching and learning enhances social studies instruction in K-12 classrooms and makes lessons exciting for the teacher and the students. According to Partee (1996), the integration of electronic communication in teacher education programs not only provided an alternate environment but also extended the boundaries of the traditional classroom. Electronic communication through email (Hall, 1993) and Newsgroups (Lempert, 1995) provided alternate communication for classroom participation and peer support during student teaching. Research Questions Research questions and hypotheses will be used to understand the impact of technology information as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes, self-efficacy and practices of preservice middle school social studies teachers. 1. How effectively is technology integrated in the middle school social studies methods course? · What is the effect of using electronic forum as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of preservice teachers towards information technology? · What is the effect of using synchronous e-chat as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of preservice teachers towards information technology? · What is the effect of using asynchronous email/listserv as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of preservice teachers towards information technology? · What is the effect of using the Internet as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of preservice teachers towards information technology? 2. What are the pretest and posttest attitudes of preservice middle school social studies teachers toward technology information (Electronic mail, WWW, Multimedia, Teacher productivity and student productivity) in the social studies methods course? Methodology Participants 1. Participants are 10 middle school social studies preservice teachers currently enrolled in a social studies methods course at a large research based southeastern university. Participants were purposefully selected for this study. WebCT is used in this research as the web-based pedagogical medium guiding information technology integration in the course. Web CT is a web-based flexible, integrated pedagogical tool designed to foster inquiry, encourage discourse and inspire collaboration between instructor and students, and students and students. Pedagogical ethnotechnography This research employs the use of a "pedagogical ethnotechnography" method of research developed by this researcher. This researcher defines a "pedagogical ethnotechnography" method as a study of technology as a pedagogical tool as experienced by stakeholders- students, teachers, or school administrators - within an educational realm with an empirical analytic paradigm, within a defined boundary set by the empirical analytic paradigm. Pedagogical ethnotechnography utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative Analysis of Data 1. The qualitative data is collected through forum, email, and e-chat databases, classroom observations and group interviews. The qualitative data will be coded and analyzed using Glaser's (1978) constant comparative methods. Although the constant comparative method is presented as a series of steps, the process when practically applied is non-linear, goes on all at once and the analysis keeps doubling back to more data collection and coding, (Brogdan and Bilken, 1998). Quantitative Analysis of Data The Independent variable is the use of information technology through WebCT to positively influence student's attitude towards information technology as a pedagogical tool. The dependent variable is students' attitude scores of Teachers' attitudes Towards information-Technology Scale (TAT). A t-test of independent samples will be conducted for the five part index - Electronic mail, WWW, Multimedia, Teacher productivity and student productivity - means (pre and post test) at the alpha level equal to .05 to test for a significant attitude towards information technology as a pedagogical tool. According to Knezek and Christensen (1998), the internal consistency reliability estimates for the five scales on the TAT - Electronic mail, WWW, Multimedia, Teacher productivity and student productivity - range from .93 to .96. Preliminary findings Initial review of data show that there is some positive attitude by preservice teachers toward information technology as a pedagogical tool, especially in the teaching of middle school social studies: · Overall, students feel that technology can enhance lessons but there are inherent dangers in using technology in instruction, such as supervision of students. · Students also recognized that use of technology as a pedagogical tool is a collaborative effort in which teachers and students learn from each other. · Students are also concerned about the effects of the "digital divide" on student's learning outcome outside of the school. The initial findings from the qualitative analysis seem to be leading to positive preservice teachers attitudes toward technology information as a pedagogical tool.
Bull, P.H. (2002). Pedagogical Ethnotechnography: A Study of the impact of Information Technology as a pedagogical tool on the attitudes of Preservice Social Studies Middle School Teachers. In D. Willis, J. Price & N. Davis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2002--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2172-2173). Nashville, Tennessee, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved October 18, 2020 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/17620/.


text:
Environmental Benefits
It is a renewable resource derived from crops like grain or in Wilmar BioEthanol's case sugarcane.
- Wilmar BioEthanol produces less than half the CO2 emissions of petrol.
- A renewable environmentally, friendly fuel source
- The major widely used alternative fuel in the world
- It is sourced from natural products like annual sugarcane crops
- If Australia adopted E10 blended fuel nationwide, this would lead to over 3 million tonnes of CO2 abatement per year.
- Ethanol blended fuels represent 3.5% of the world gasoline market.
- Ethanol blended fuels are widely used in countries like the United States and Brazil
- In Brazil, it represents up to 41% of the local fuel market
- V8 Supercars have been running on ethanol blended fuels since 2007
- A FFV such as the SAAB 9-3 running on E85 (sugar based) can have lower CO2 emissions than a hybrid such as the Toyota Prius.
The chart below represents the comparison of carbon emissions for various car models.
Theoretical CO2 emissions using sugar based ethanol
*Wilmar has taken all reasonable care in reproducing this data. However, Wilmar makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of, and disclaims all liability, direct or indirect (and whether or not arising out of the negligence, default or lack of care of Wilmar for any loss or damage (whether foreseeable or not) suffered by the recipient or any other person arising out of, or in connection with, any use or reliance by any of them on this data. Liability which cannot legally be excluded is limited to the maximum extent possible.


text:
Trail Run to Beacon Hill
3.2 miles 600 ft gain - Out-and-Back Trail
Added by Spencer Williams
Stop attempting to run on the overcrowded streets of LA and discover the beauty of Griffith park, while running on the trail to Beacon Hill. At a little over 3 miles, running the trail to Beacon Hill is a great workout for the day, or just a warm up for the miles of connecting trails.
The starting point for your run is at the Griffith Park Southern Railroad. From the parking lot walk east crossing Crystal Springs Drive and find the Coolidge Hiking Trail. Begin running up Coolidge Trail toward Upper Beacon Trail making sure to stay straight at the first intersection (0.2 miles). You will pass a golf course driving range on your right before coming to a second intersection (0.6 miles). Turn right and continue to follow Coolidge Trail for 0.7 miles to the 5-points, from here turn right to connect with Upper Beacon Trail, culminating with Beacon Hill just 650 feet ahead.
Beacon Hill was once, as the name suggests, the home of a large light beacon. Placed there in the early 1900's, it was used to help pilots land at the old Grand Central Airport in Glendale (the main airport before LAX opened). There is no longer any trace of the light that once warned incoming pilots of the Griffith Park peaks, but the view is no less fantastic.
Now at the top of Beacon Hill you will now have run 1.6 miles ascending over 600 feet in the process. From the top you can relax and enjoy views of downtown LA and Glendale, the LA River, and downtown Burbank with the Verdugo Mountains towering behind.
From here you can either return the way you came, totaling 3.2 miles, or continue onto one of the many other trails Griffith Park has to offer via the 5-points intersection.
Go Pro.
We're committed to building a better, more inclusive home for the modern outdoors. Go PRO to support our mission and get benefits like gear deals, no ads, and more!Join the community Learn More
ReviewsLeave a Review
Overall rating:
Noah Crider
🥈 Contributor
4 months ago
Loved it
Awesome hike
Selah Estrada
over 3 years ago
Great Place To Hike For Sunrise
We did this hike for Xmas sunrise and it was well worth the 4am wake up call and night hike
Nearby Adventures
Hike to Glendale Peak via Henry's Trail
0.5 miles 70 ft gain
Summit Mount Hollywood via the Fern Canyon Trail
6.5 miles
Secret Stairs Astro Loop
Hike Mount Hollywood via Mount Bell Trail
6.6 miles 1696 ft gain


text:
Webcam at the Arlberg
Webcam in St. Christoph am Arlberg
The webcam at the Arlberg offers you a mesmerizing look at the mountains of Tyrol. Take a visual journey here at 1,800 metres above sea level.
Here in St. Christoph you will find a place to retreat and to decelerate. An upscale atmosphere, culinary in the different restaurants and warm hospitality are the most important ingredients for your indulging holiday on a higher level. In winter right in the ski region, in summer amidst the impressive mountain landscape: at the arlberg1800 RESORT you will enjoy a holiday of a special kind, any time of the year.
With the Contemporary Art & Concert Hall, the resort also offers a cultural programme that is unique in the Arlberg region. It allows you to combine mountain holidays, recreation and cultural enjoyment during your stay in the Alps.
Get to know the arlberg1800 RESORT yourself and learn to love it – send us your no-obligation enquiry.


text:
Jack Nowell, Leigh Halfpenny and Saracens trio react to Lions squad announcement
Last Updated: 20/04/17 11:11am
Watch how Jack Nowell, Leigh Halfpenny and the Saracens' British and Irish Lions contingent reacted to hearing the news of their call-ups.
Wednesday was a nail-biting day for rugby players across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as they waited to hear if they had made the British and Irish Lions squad.
Gone are the days of receiving a letter in the post, so the players and their loved ones were glued to Sky Sports News HQ as Lions manager John Spencer read out the names in alphabetical order.
There were, of course, some disappointed players who did not make the cut - but as Warren Gatland said, it is a great position to be in from a selector's point of view as they are being forced to leave some quality players out.
However, for those players who were selected, there was plenty of reasons to celebrate and the likes of Leigh Halfpenny, Jack Nowell and Saracens shared the moments they heard who had made the Lions tour.
All 10 games of the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand will be shown live on Sky Sports, starting June 3.


text:
The Associated Press is reporting that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars. Obama-administration officials rejected the charge, saying they view rising gasoline prices as bad for average Americans and the economic recovery.
Barbour suggested that President Obama wants to see higher energy taxes that would lead to more expensive gasoline. He cited 2008 comments from Steven Chu, now Obama's energy secretary, that a gradual increase in gasoline taxes could coax consumers into dumping their gas guzzlers and finding homes closer to where they work. Chu, then a Nobel Prize-winning professor, argued that higher costs per gallon could force investments in alternative fuels and spur cleaner energy sources.
Perhaps someone should tell Barbour that Chu's 2008 comments are pretty much common knowledge, so there is no grand conspiracy. People aren't stupid. If gas goes over $5 a gallon, folks are going to seek alternative forms of transportation (public transit) or smaller vehicles. That's common sense, not a conspiracy. If he wants to take on Obama, he has to do better than that.
Read more at Yahoo.
In other words: The Queen of Soul: Pancreatic Cancer Reports Were Just Rumor.


text:
Can Scarlett Squeeze TAME the Wildcat?
Scarlett Squeeze created quite the stir with the Female Wrestling Channel ladies when she debuted against Carmella Ringo on Episode 41 – Scarlett and Sis.
Now……..Scarlett is aiming for her next challenger.
Scarlett has ultimate confidence that her ascension up the FWC ladder is going to be quick and definite.
However, the always competitive Ashley Wildcat stands in her way.
Ashley's path at the FWC has not been filled with sunshine and roses.
Ashley is in big need of a win.
"The Wildcat" wants prove to the fan base that she is very much in the hunt for the new Female Wrestling Channel Competitive Champion that is going to be crowned in coming year or so.
Will Scarlett Squeeze continue steam rolling through the FWC ladies?
Or will Ashley Wildcat stop Scarlett dead in her tracks?
Who is going to win this thing?
This is a best of 5 falls real female vs female wrestling matchup.
Real Women's Wrestling!
You must be logged in to post a review.


text: Aoife the Celt 0 Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Lady Aoife the Celt, Krónjarla of Stormark, wearing the magnificent blue silk gold-embroided Imperial Court Dress with a golden belt adorned with precious stones, a copy of the Brísingamen (Freyja's necklace), a stunning Celtic Tiara, and the insignia of the Grand and Glorious Imperial Order of the Two Silver Longships, is standing outside at the Golden Gate of the Vanadísarhall to welcome the honoured guests who have travelled here to attend the wedding of Storjarla Æsileif and King Arkadius III of Batavia. Krónjarla Aoife is accompanied by Storjarla Chloe, her niece, and Erik Whitecloak, Master of the Household. She is further accompanied by Valiant Vixens, Priestesses of the Temples of Motherhood, Love and Youth and several other staff from the Sovereign Household. After having been welcomed the honoured guests shall either, depending on their time of arrival, be escorted by Lords or Ladies-in-Waiting to the Godsgrove where the wedding ceremony is held or to the Feast Hall where subsequent festivities will take place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites


text:
3 days
Level 3
Complete this form for a detailed course description.
This 3-day course reviews traditional approaches to transport services such as SDH and WDM and also discusses in detail alternative approaches including Carrier Ethernet and Pseudo Wire services that may be deployed in backhaul and core network applications.
Transmission and network engineers who require an insight into modern digital transmission techniques used within fixed and mobile telecommunications networks.
A good knowledge of fixed or mobile network transmission and switching architecture, services and applications and some knowledge of packet-switched networks and IP routing protocols.
We can arrange classroom training, one to one training, or online training to suit your requirements. Learn more
We are pleased to be associated with some unique training locations in the UK and further afield. Learn more
Enquire online Call us
2 days
Level 2
Course details
3 days
Level 2
General Enquiries +44 (0)1539 742 742
Booking & Course Information +44 (0)1539 742 729


text:
This workflow demonstrates the different database binner nodes that allow you to create new binning columns for numerical columns. An example would be the conversion of a numerical column that contains the age in years into a categorical column with values such as children and adults. The demonstrated nodes are the Database Auto-Binner node that automatically creates the bin boundaries e.g. by specifying the number of bins to create, the Database Numeric-Binner that allows you to manually specify the bin boundaries and the Database Apply-Binner node that applys an existing binning to new data.
Notice, that the red connection ports of the database nodes only contain the SQL statement and connection information but not the data itself. The statement is processed within the database e.g. Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, DB2, SQL Server, Hive, Impala, etc. and the result is read into the KNIME Analytics Platform via the Database Connection Table Reader
EXAMPLES Server: 01_Data_Access/02_Databases/04_Binning_in_Databases01_Data_Access/02_Databases/04_Binning_in_Databases*
Download a zip-archive
* Find more about the Examples Server here.
The link will open the workflow directly in KNIME Analytics Platform (requirements: Windows; KNIME Analytics Platform must be installed with the Installer version 3.2.0 or higher). In other cases, please use the link to a zip-archive or open the provided path manually


text:
Inspection Report – February 2019 – OFSTED
Our Mission Statement
At Bradshaw we provide a stimulating, caring and safe learning environment, where everyone is valued. In partnership with parents and the wider community we nurture respect, empathy and independence. Bradshaw children have a positive, hardworking approach to learning – leaving us as confident, successful individuals.
If you require any information in paper form please contact the school office.


text:
To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at email@example.com or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
This image is an advertisement for Swift and Holliday, Wholesale Druggists, located at 523 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. The advertisement originally appeared in Volume 4 of the Kansas Medical Journal in 1892, and promotes "Elastic stockings made to order," and "Surgical instruments and physicians' supplies." A drawing of a woman is visible on the left side of the advertisement, and it shows the various products offered for sale.
Date: 1892
Item Number: 213806
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.722 *6
Holding Institution: Kansas Medical Journal, Vol. 4, 1892, p. xii.
Business and Industry - Health care - Medical suppliers
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Sales
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s - 1892
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Ad, Magazine
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Photographs


text:
Via EA UK, here's the first trailer for Titanfall's "Expedition" downloadable content, which is slated for release this month on Xbox One and PC. (The 360 version won't be out until June.)
Expedition is a map pack containing three new stages: Swampland, Runoff, and War Games. You can see them all above.


text:
The Basic Principles Of search engine optimization web design
There is not any magic trick to your site rated 1st in Google search. But if you cater to your customers and help it become effortless for end users to find you, you're doing all of your position. We make it easier to find out what would make your web site exceptional and useful, so you may make your site get noticed from a competitors.
Maximize the power of social networking; perform with probably the most made use of bookmarking and sharing�equipment where ever These are appropriate.
Google Analytics is a website management tool employed by developers and webmasters to investigate Over-all Web site exercise by exporting the information. Two strains of code are added to your footer… Read through Extra
A�couple of fantastic illustrations for our imaginary web firm may be WordPress Web site design, e-commerce�Search engine marketing, The big apple World wide web design etcetera.
Facebook has become quite possibly the most frequented Web-site on the internet, and seldom per day goes by without the hottest�Twitter scandal smacking the information.
Normal web enhancement oversight which badly impacts Search engine marketing is using images as buttons on navigation�bar. Use textual content normally, as phrases will be desired and acknowledged in relation to exactly where they url and what her response is�all over them. Certainly you're getting it! Semantics Again.
It is annoying. You deleted the web site, visit this site the blog, the photo or maybe the sentence and but folks can nevertheless check out it on the web. This is because Google and A few other… Read through Additional
Despite the dimensions or sort of corporation, We are going to elevate your on the net existence and make your web site content more attractive, relevant, and visible to Net searchers and search engines.
[2] The method involves a wikipedia reference search engine spider downloading a website page and storing it on the search engine's own server, the place a second software, known Get the facts as an indexer, extracts various information regarding the web site, such as the words and phrases it contains and where these are located, and any excess weight for precise words, and all one-way links the web page incorporates, which can be then positioned right into a scheduler for crawling in a later date.
Bounce amount is often a vital evaluate in Web site analytics. It truly is an indicator that find out this here tells either how much time a visitor stays on your website or the quantity of pages that man or woman… Go through Additional


text:
Hi Guys,
I am novice to Xamarin IOS app distribution ,tried Visualstudio appcenter to distribute my Xamarin Forms app for Android and IOS Testing.
When Comes to IOS build, i was able to generate the .IPA and distribute it but, when tester tried to install it, we are getting "Unable to download app this time" error. (Eventhough the device is registered one and Provisioning profile was also given)
If Anyone ever faced this kind of issue, can you please share the possible solution for this.
Thanks and your help is appreciated.
In iOS bundle signing make sure signing identity is developer and not the distrubution
Does your app use any specific entitlements that are not declared in your Entitlements.plist? This was the problem when I received such an error. I would also double check the provisioning profile. Download it again to make sure you have the updated provisioning profile (where the user's device has been added) and sign and redeploy your app.


text:
Tumut, NSW
Start and finish is at the bottom end of the Bull Paddock (via Elm Drive)
Start and finish is at the bottom end of the Bull Paddock (via Elm Drive)
Manages one of the most complex dual water and electricity projects in the world
Council provides essential services to the community like roads, garbage collection, water, sewer, town planning and governance.
Join the Toyworld club and go in the draw to win a $100 gift card. One drawn every month!
Customer loyalty is rewarded when you join our Summit Pharmacy Group Loyalty Club. Joining is free and simple and you can earn points from any of the Summit Group
Back to Balance is the #1 Family Chiropractic & Health Clinic in South and Western Sydney. We have 4 clinics and a range of health services. Book Online Now
The Next Generation in Sports Nutrition
We developed it, we made it, we test it, we use it, we recommend it and you can trust it
Life's a climb, but the view is great
Welcome to the inaugural Snowy Valleys Cycle Challenge 2019. A Rotary initiative of Tumut, we invite you to experience the iconic Snowy Mountains with its stunning scenery, heritage towns and unique history
We have a great selection of new, used and demo vehicles at Tumut Toyota. We can also assist with finance, insurance, parts, accessories, service and fleet.
Goode's Coaches provides safe and reliable transport to hundreds of students each school day in the Tumut Shire
We align solutions to success
As a dynamic client focused organisation, Alliance Project Group is committed to delivering a comprehensive range of construction and project management services
Custom made Premium Lenses. We will find the right lens for you and your lifestyle. For a perfect fit book online
a fun and modern clinic
Bycycle NSW supports Tumut Cycle Classic and members receive a discount when registering for the Tumut ride
and advertise here
inquire via link below
Liza R. Dodds: Was a wonderful day for a wonderful cause! Thank you for asking me to be a part of this wonderful day ♥. Had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs
Jillian Forbes: What a wonderful event!
Mike & Jill Harvey: Great, well organised, happy & healthy event thanks to your team of willing, cheerful & helpful volunteers
Greg Boyd: Great atmosphere, friendly supportive helpers/marshals etc - well done
Phil Roy: Thanks and congratulations Tumut Classic team for a great event. I was a first timer this year, over from Wagga with a few others, and not a regular road bike rider. We had a great time, the event was fantastic, volunteers super helpful and friendly. The 75K course was a treat, especially with the "hill" at the end. Will be encouraging others to give it a go next year.


text:
Sick of things I've written? Here are things writ about me.
Interviews & Features
Selected Reviews
Interviews & Features
- In 'Home Office,' Boston couple concocts a workplace comedy from their tiny apartment (Boston Globe, May 2020)
- How to diversify your workplace when you're stuck working at home. (BoingBoing, May 2020)
- On the Level: A Q&A with playwright John J King (Improper Bostonian, May 2018)
- At the BPL, There's a Playwright in the House (Boston Globe, July 2017)
- Q&A with John J King, Boston Public Library's First Playwright-in-Residence (Library Journal, September 2017)
Selected Reviews
- Saving Boston One Turtle at a Time (New England Theatre Geek, June 2018)
- Wonderfully Modern 'Der Vampyr' (Boston Globe, June 2014)
- Crowned (New York Arts, June 2014)
- ReVamped *COUGH COUGH* Vampire Comedy for Modernity (New England Theatre Geek, June 2014)
- The Sex Fest Makes a Tempting Offer (EdgeBoston, June 2014)
- James Bond Meets Hamlet, Hilariously (ArtsFuse, June 2013)
- Date Night Pick: From Denmark With Love (Boston Herald, June 2013)
john j king | firstname.lastname@example.com | new york, ny


text:
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Unboxing The Gacha Gacha Box by Japan Crate
Natalie loves anything from Japan. She hopes to be able to visit there one day. Until then, one of her favorite things is to receive packages from Japan.
Gacha Gacha is a box full of Japan's best gachapon figures and collectibles. If you're curious on what gachapons are, well, they are machines found throughout Japan. You put a coin in and get a ball with a toy inside. We have them in the United States too, normally at the end of check out lines. But the stuff in Japan is so much cooler.
"Gacha" refers to the sound of the crank turning on the machine, and "pon" is the sound of the prize falling.
Here's what Natalie got:
The box is full of colorful balls with a fun surprise inside:
The first ball Natalie opened had a Kirby inside. And yes, Kirby is squishy!
She also got a Shiba Plush. Natalie says he's super soft:
There's also a unicorn bracelet, which you can also twist into a unicorn. Natalie hasn't done this yet, but she has worn the bracelet:
Natalie loves dogs, so she thought this Pochacco character was cute:
If you like anime, there's a Dragon Ball figure. It's known as a chibi figure:
And her favorite thing from the box was this Whack-a-mole game. It lights up and makes noises. She says it's addictive:
If you want your own Gacha Gacha box, you can get one here for under $30. You also get FREE SHIPPING. If the Gacha Gacha box isn't your thing, they have a bunch of other options. Natalie is aching to try the Doki Doki & Kawaii Subscription box.
So what was your favorite thing in this box?
38 comments:
- Jen TrevinoJune 5, 2019 at 6:39 PM
Oh my goodness! The box is so adorable! I'm in love with plush, Japanese and gacha game toys! I think I found a subscription box that I MUST get!ReplyDelete
This is absolutely an adorable box. Who knew they had so many fun items on the market!? Will definitely recommend this to my friends with kids.ReplyDelete
That'a a very creative idea for a box! She got a lot of cute things inside.ReplyDelete
I think that's a really fun idea for kids. It looks like there's a lot of fun things in these subscription boxes. And I know my kiddo love to get it like this. It's like having A birthday party once a month.ReplyDelete
This box is so adorable! My grand daughter loves the gacha game toys! I think I found a subscription box that I MUST get!ReplyDelete
This looks like such a fun box. The Dragon Ball figure is so cute. My nephew would love it.ReplyDelete
That Gacha Gacha box looks like fun. I had never heard of Gachapon toys before.ReplyDelete
The little characters are super cute. I bet my kids would like this box.ReplyDelete
OMGosh! My nieces and nephews need this in their lives right now! Those toys are super cute and the perfect size for playtime in the backseat on summer road trips.ReplyDelete
My teenager is obsessed with all things Japanese. She is even taking Japanese course and is getting pretty fluent. This would make an amazing gift for her!ReplyDelete
My kids love that Kirby game. They would definitely be excited to get a Kirby squishy.ReplyDelete
I would have loved this when I was in high school. That whack a mole game sounds pretty fun.ReplyDelete
This is awesome! Kids love Japanese stuff, i do too lol! Awesome game.ReplyDelete
Well that looks like a fun box for kids! I bet these would make great gifts!!ReplyDelete
such a cute little box. I really wish they had something like this out when I was younger, I would have loved that!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness these are so cute! My kids would love a box like this. Whack a mole is a favorite!ReplyDelete
Those items are all so cute. I'll have to check out this box. I'd love to get one of these, especially since it's from Japan!ReplyDelete
You had me at Gacha Gacha haha! I enjoyed reading this! My nephews would love it even more.ReplyDelete
Reminds me of the days growing up being addicted to Sanrio items...might have to introduce my kiddos to this; love the little squishy figurines.ReplyDelete
My kids would love this. I get so much joy out of unboxing things myself, I think it would be fun for them too.ReplyDelete
The wack-a-mole would have been my favorite thing also! Cute stuff :)ReplyDelete
My niece would geek out over these! This would make a super good gift!ReplyDelete
Everything is really cute, but my favorite is the Shiba plush! I wish I had known about this a few years ago, my kids would have really loved it.ReplyDelete
Unboxing is definitely my favorite activity. I am so thrilled and surprised with the stuff that it has. They look so cute I just want to get them.ReplyDelete
I really like the overall packaging of the box. Those are cuties, I wanna have them all. How I wish I got something like this as well.ReplyDelete
- AnaghaJune 7, 2019 at 11:23 PM
Aww, those tiny toys are so cute. I would love to have that collection too.ReplyDelete
Neat! My youngest son is into collecting video games and collectibles, so I bet this would interest him greatly!ReplyDelete
What a fun box! I am sure that my daughters will love it too!ReplyDelete
My son loves to get stuff out of the machine. Gacha Gasha would be a fun gift for him. He would love to pretty much all of that. Especially the soft cat ��ReplyDelete
I've heard about this! It sounds so cool, thanks for sharing!!!!ReplyDelete
How fun it is to see her face all lit up with her neat gifts! That's a good subscription box!ReplyDelete
Out of all the items in this box, I think my granddaughter would love the unicorn bracelet the most.ReplyDelete
Nice. Who wouldn't love a box full of surprises? my daughter would love that unicorn bracelet. She's currently all about unicorns :)ReplyDelete
They look SOOOO cute! A great idea for a gift :)ReplyDelete
This box of balls is a great idea! Bet the kids love the surprises inside!ReplyDelete
The box is so cute! This is a great gift idea. I'm sure my niece would love this!ReplyDelete
This Is such and interesting box with fun items that promises to be Of interest to kids and engaging to them also would love to hand my baby sister one of this lucky boxes.ReplyDelete
seth rogan net worthReplyDelete
Such a very good idea for this blog.


text:
The 'skin' of photography
Notes on Karl Lagerfeld's images by Anne Cartier-Bresson
Exposure and printing
Depending on his needs, Karl Lagerfeld uses black and white or small format color film, 6 x 6 reversal film, Polaroids and more recently, digital cameras. In the first case, black and white prints are always completely matte with a highly graphic finish, which gives solid blacks and strong tone contrasts. The rich density of prints is somewhat reminiscent of fabric falling in luminous waves. In other cases, the point of view may be very classical and is reminiscent of historical viewpoints, such as the series on Versailles, which in some images may even conjure up memories of points of view by Eugène Atget at the turn of the last century. The silver gelatin papers used here have deep tones which vary according to the development and printing method.
Conventional prints or color transfers, when turned to sepia, give images an almost pictorial coloring, as is the case in the 'Homage to Oskar Schlemmer' series. This aspect is highlighted by the blur of the subject in motion and the light which emanates from the warm tones obtained by the chemical sulfide baths. The silver grain transformed into silver sulfide is also particularly stable and should be capable of resisting extreme conservation conditions. Other series, printed on matte aluminum plates, have a cold and metallic aspect which gives these objects an even more pronounced graphic quality and full tones which provide a particular contrast between the shadows and high lights.Polaroid transfers
From the 1990s onwards, Karl Lagerfeld became interested in the specific material obtained by the transfer onto paper from an emulsion with instantaneous development, black and white toned in sepia or not, or in color.
In order to do this, he used a 20 x 25 camera. The gelatin emulsion with the positive image is separated with hot water then transferred onto a paper with Arches watercolor grain. With this technique, the delicacy of the tones obtained gives a highly pictorial material and great lightness to the image. Lagerfeld accentuated this effect on a number of prints by manually applying make-up to the prints' surface using eye shadow or by wiping dry pigments.Resinotypes
Inherited from photographic processes with alkali bichromate which led Alphonse Poitevin to being awarded the Duke of Luynes award for finding stable processes, resinotypes, or resinopigmentypes, were explored by Karl Lagerfeld in 1996-1997. Starting with a 6 x 6 color slide, he obtained a pigmented print whose principle is based on the light hardening of layers of bichromate gelatin. Pigments added with a paintbrush at the surface of the print are heated to be set. This process, which requires significant manual interventions, also enables great freedom in producing the colored surface.Fresson prints
Another pigment process, commercialized by the Fresson family in the 1950s, enabled Lagerfeld to print soft-toned four-color prints, whose image produces a strong pictorial effect, in the same way as that obtained by the Pictorialists at the start of the twentieth century.
His images were printed from 6 x 6 color slides and were never re-framed.Screen prints
The principle for this photo-mechanical process, which gives images a characteristic appearance, relies on a silver matrix. The image is exposed above a printing screen which retains ink like a stencil. The medium is either silver or gold, or a simple Arches paper in a standard format.Digital prints
At the end of the 1990s, Karl Lagerfeld experimented with new techniques in his laboratory in studio 7L. Now, starting from digital prints, he had prints made in the Fine Art type, with pigment ink jet, on various media (canvas, crystal paper textured, pure cotton Arches or Hahnemühle paper) which enables the surface and material effects to be varied at will.
Driven by his curiosity and taste for visual experiences as well as for the imaging of his sensitive intuitions, Karl Lagerfeld has been able to adapt the new technical possibilities of photography to his own research, in particular focused around coloring, make-up, bodies and faces. A fashion designer, he graphically transcribes through photography his feeling for landscapes, portraits and nudes. To this end, he always chooses media whose sensitivity to light meets a certain sensuality and plays with a wide range of processes as well as with significantly sophisticated methods.
The time period for his photographic work, from 1987 to now, has seen many significant changes in exposure and printing. Karl Lagerfeld has relied on this change but also on the parallel development of an alternative film photography which, as with haute couture, is capable in terms of image of highlighting the manual aspect and craftsmanship of printing, which in turn transforms the image into a unique piece.


text:
Monday, April 2, 2012
Spirit-Led Parenting : Official Release!
It's here! The day is here!
After countless hours of work and prayer and joy and tears and decisions and research and conversation and writing and writing and WRITING, we can finally say this:
Our book, our baby, this work into which we have poured heart and soul...is born.
Spirit-Led Parenting: From Fear to Freedom in Baby's First Year is here! Complete and published and available on Amazon.
Somebody pinch me.
Megan and I are thrilled and humbled at the opportunity we have been given to share our stories, to tell about what God has done in our lives, and to give voice to the message we wish we had heard as new mothers.
There are some exciting things in the works for the next while: a blog tour kicks off next week, our media kit is nearly complete, and we each have a bundle of books on their way to our doors. We're excited and nervous and quite frankly this is still very surreal!
Our most fervent prayer is that, as we move into the next phase of things, we would faithfully follow the Lord's leading, and that He would have His way in it all.
Thank you so much for your encouragement, love, and prayers. You have no idea what these things have meant to us.
One logistical note: For anyone who might be planning to order a copy of Spirit-Led Parenting this week, could we ask if you wouldn't mind placing the order tomorrow (Tuesday)? We would, of course, be honored and grateful that our book would find a place on your bookshelf no matter when you order. Tuesday just happens to be a day that would be helpful in terms of Amazon's tracking of sales trends. If that fits your plans, that would be wonderful - and if not, no worries!
Above all, please pray with us that Spirit-Led Parenting would be an encouragement to new parents. That means everything!
* * * *
Labels: the book
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Help Spread Warmth With Samuel's Blankets
Every dollar counts and goes directly towards the purchase of new blankets! We shop for the warmest, softest, cheapest priced quality blankets on sale that we can find and deliver them to shelters through out the winter. We also have a give away the day after Thanksgiving where anyone in need can come to get blankets.
"This young man can teach us all a lot about what it means to love one another."– TJ Phillip
If you'd like to mail in a donation, please send checks to:
Samuel's Blankets For The Homeless PO Box 205 Gobles, MI 49055
Thank you!!
Samuel VerHage


text:
EventsView all Articles
"In Time" Carlos Cánovas at ICO Museum Madrid
July 10, 2018
"In Time" is a journey through the work of Carlos Cánovas from the 80s to the present, featuring 128 photographs grouped into six series: Tapias (1980), Beyond Walls (1983-1990), Vallès Oriental (1990), Landscape of no Return (1993-1994), Anonymous Landscape (1992-2005), and Seventh Heaven (2007-2017). The photographer´s entire body of work constitutes a kind of analytical record of urban transformation.
For this exhibition, Cánovas has sought out space where nature and human intervention converge; interstitial landscapes found in city limits that suggest multiple readings of space, distance, and time. These are concepts that the photographer also incorporates in his personal reflections on photography: «What the photographer does is try to make sure that what is in his images reflect his initial ideas and also, in a way that is perhaps less deliberate but no less important, his doubts».
Practical information
"In Time" Carlos Cánovas
May 30 – September 9, 2018
ICO Foundation Museum
C/ Zorrilla, 3 Madrid
The work of Carlos Cánovas, as a whole, constitutes a kind of critical record on the transformation of the urban. At the same time, this exhibition highlights the author's idea about photography itself, "an activity permeable to personal experience, in each place and at each moment, an experience that can manifest itself in different responses, but which, from its burden poetic, it revolves intensely around the ideas of time and distance ".
According to the critic Alberto Martín, "Cánovas does not monumentalize, does not convert architecture into symbols, whether industrial or not, what he does is to propose places as a context for memory and experience. That is precisely the path that definitely configures Cánovas' journey towards a poetic landscape. "
Since Cánovas began his photographic career in the 80s to the present, the influence of photographers like Eugène Atget and his urban wanderings is perceived in his career; Walker Evans and the so-called "documentary style"; or Michael Schmidt, of whom he says: "That German photographer's will of 'neutrality' was a kind of flag that I also wanted for my images." In addition, the work of Cánovas registers the influences of the photographers of the famous exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1976), or of Gabriele Basilico, with the architecture of Milan as protagonist.
In a closer environment, we must also highlight the excellent relationship that united him with photographers such as Paco Gómez and Humberto Rivas, or the one he has maintained for many years with Manolo Laguillo, all of them photographers defined in some way by their relationship with the urban landscape.
The ICO Museum, continuing its work of disseminating architectural photography, and especially the Spanish one, presents the exhibition 'En el tiempo. Carlos Cánovas' to show the work of one of our most relevant landscape photographers of today. The exhibition, curated by Juana Arlegui, has been possible thanks to the collaboration with the Museum of the University of Navarra, and is part of the official PhotoEspaña program 2018.
News source: Fundación ICO
Subscribe here to get weekly updates about architecture events and exhibitions.


text:
Webinar Series: Activating Potential: How to Apply Mindset Tools to Empower Your Clients Toward Career Success – May 15, May 22 & May 29, 2019 with Shellie Deloyer and the Career Professionals of Canada (CPC)
Presenter: Shellie Deloyer
Date and Time:
• Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
• Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
• Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
- Full Series CPC Member: $119
- Full Series Non CPC-Member: $159
In addition to access to the live webinars, all registered participants will receive a password-protected video recording of each session, available for one week from its live broadcast date in case you miss one.
We all have clients who are struggling with career clarity and motivation. We've all worked with individuals where our regular programs, approaches and options just don't cut it. This webinar series will introduce you to a set of tools and techniques – based on quantum change and growth mindset models, such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – for helping clients achieve their goals and get results.
Who Should Attend
You'll learn practical and effective awareness, communication and empowerment tools that go below the surface to identify what's really driving people to do what they're doing … or not doing. By applying these skills your clients will find meaning, overcome obstacles, create action plans and reach their true potential. During the series, you will develop your ability to guide your clients through powerful conversations that get to the root cause of their current situation and to access new answers.
Everything taught in this series applies for yourself in addition to those you work with. You'll be diving into your own potential and will have the skills and resources to advance your own empowerment. Walk away with tangible practices to fill your coaching toolbox, which you can put to use right away and see immediate results.
Webinar #1: Activating Potential – Building Foundations for Success
Wednesday, May 15 , 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
- Learn how your conscious and unconscious minds work, and how to use this to your advantage
- Understand how people take in information, filter it, and the process that leads to the result they're getting
- Learn the basic presuppositions of NLP – the foundations and truths that will shift the way you engage with any client
- Understand how the growth model works, and how to guide your clients through their own growth
- Learn the model for moving your clients out of the problem they're in, and into a solution
Webinar #2: Activating Potential – Guiding Clients Toward Clarity, Purpose & Motivation
Wednesday, May 22 , 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
- Using powerful questions to get to the heart of who your client wants to become
- Help your clients gain clarity on their vision and goals, and guide them to make it bigger and brighter for themselves
- Learn the process for guiding clients to identify their WHY: connecting to purpose, fulfillment and motivation
- Elicit client values to guide them toward values-based work
- Help clients to align their work with their personality, interests, skills and values
Webinar #3: Activating Potential – Planning for the WIN
Wednesday, May 29 , 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
- How to use Quantum Goal setting to set a goal and install it in your client's future
- How to create reverse-engineered action plans to get out of overwhelm and start taking action
- Stepping out of your comfort zone, and choosing growth instead
- Empowering clients to take responsibility for their situation and how they choose to respond
- How to ensure these new skills and new neurology sticks, and that your client will continue to follow through
Shellie Deloyer is a career coach and empowerment trainer and is the founder of Bright Futures Solutions. She empowers individuals and organizations to access their unlimited potential, gain clarity and take action to create meaningful results. Shellie believes that everyone is capable and deserving of a successful and meaningful future. One of her greatest strengths is to see the true gifts and potential within other people and the possibilities that they can create for themselves and others.
Shellie has a Master's degree in Education and is a Master Coach and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy. She is also a Master Coach of TimeLine Therapy® and NLP Coaching, and is certified with the International Coach Federation.
Shellie is a member of Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) and a popular blogger. She is also a top-rated Cannexus conference presenter and delivered a standing-room only session this year on Cultivating Leadership.
Cancellation Policy
Requests for cancellation(s) must be made by emailing your request to email@example.com. Cancellation requests must be received before 5:00 pm ET 2 business days prior to the webinar date. NO REFUNDS are granted after this point. An administrative fee of 10% will be deducted from any paid webinar registration.
Refunds will be issued within two weeks after receipt of the written notice.
Delegate substitutions are permissible. Please notify us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you intend to transfer your registration to another person. Supply us with that person's name and contact information including their email address. The substitute delegate will be required to pay any difference in registration rate.
If a technical failure at the attendee's home or workplace prevents access to the live webinar, the attendee will not be given a refund. It is the responsibility of the attendee to confirm system requirements and test their computers prior to the start of the webinar.


text:
The Huawei Honor 10 is the latest flagship smartphone killer from Huawei's budget sub-brand. With an ultra-competitive price of $579, it aims to unsettle bigger brands with a mix of premium and mid-range features. The Honor 10 is a dual SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, USB OTG, 3G and 4G (with support for Band 40 used by some LTE networks in India). Sensors on the phone include Compass/ Magnetometer, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor and Gyroscope
Huawei introduced a lot of high-end smartphones such as Huawei Honor 10 and gained more and more fans during recent years. However, data loss problem still occurs no matter how excellent the smartphone is. One of the first reactions to losing important files is usually an unsettling feeling that may cause the user to become very disturbed. Mostly because they may not be aware that these files can be recovered. In some cases, the method used can be very time consuming and difficult to understand. So, it is best to pursue the most appropriate option that will not only make this recovering process easy to understand, but to complete within a few basic steps. In fact, no matter what is the reason that you need to recover your data from Huawei Honor 10, to get back the deleted and lost content, you just need the Huawei Data Recovery.
Huawei Data Recovery is an outstanding and all-in-one data recovery tool that not only allows you to get back your lost and deleted text messages, contacts, photos, videos, audio, WhatsApp messages and more, but also perfectly compatible with any Huawei smartphont including the latest Huawei Mate 9/10 (Pro), Huawei P9/P10 (Plus), Huawei P20 (Pro), as well as other popular Android brands like HTC, Samsung, Motorola, vivo, OPPO, LG, OnePlus, Google, Sony and so on.
Firstly, you should install Huawei Data Recovery and run it. Then, click on "Android Data Recovery" on the primary interface. Next, by using the USB cable of your mobile phone, you should connect your Huawei Honor 10 to computer. After finishing connecting, your Huawei Honor 10 will appear on the computer.
Note: Please ensure that you've enabled the USB debugging on your Huawei Honor 10 during the connecting process.
In this step, Huawei Data Recovery will show you all the data types which it supports to recover, and you just need to select the types of the file which you want to recover,then click "Next".
Now, the program will automatically scan your Huawei Honor 10 for the lost content, please wait patiently.
Note: There might be a superuser authorization appearing on your device during the scan. If you get it, click "Allow" to continue. If not, just skip this step.
At last, you can preview the data of your Huawei Honor 10 on your computer. please select the data which you want to recover, then click on "Recover". Then, you recovered your data successfully.


text:
A friend asked me to teach a Wet Felting Flower Class. Having never taught this particular felting project before, I thought I better figure out how. What I found is that it is simple, fun, and the flowers come out beautiful!
Here is what you need:
Boot Tray (provides a textured surface to aid in the felting process and contain the water) or Towel – to work on
Towel – to dry your hands (dry fiber is sure to stick to wet hands) and roll your flower in when finished
Roving – I use alpaca because that's what I have, or sometimes an alpaca/wool blend
Other Fiber – small bits of other fibers, scraps from other projects, yarn scraps, thread
Bubble Wrap – two small pieces, about 12″ x 12″
Liquid Soap – I like Dawn but whatever you have will work (if you have skin sensitivities, stay away from anti-bacterial soap)
Hot Water
Sponge (optional) – nice for sopping up extra water on mat
Pool Noodle
Something to Wet Fiber With – empty spray bottle, turkey baster, soup ladle, ball brauser sprinkler, or sponge
Lay a piece of bubble wrap, bubble side down, on the towel or boot mat. Draft (or pull apart) small pieces of your main color of roving. Do not cut the roving. Thin wispy fibers will felt much better than blunt, cut edges.
Lay the roving pieces in a round shape overlapping in the center.
Add other bits of color as desired. If using yarn, Suri Locks, or thick pieces of fiber, be sure to lay a very thin piece of roving on top to "scotch tape" these thicker fibers in place, or they will not felt.
Add a squirt or two of soap to the hot water. Now wet your fiber with the hot, soapy water. My absolute favorite felting tool for wetting the fiber is a ball brauser sprinkler (a tool used to water bonsai plants), but a spray bottle, turkey baster, soup ladle, sponge, or cup will also work to get water to your fiber.
If using a ball brauser sprinkler, squeeze the bulb before putting it in the water, drop it into the soapy water, release the bulb, and it fills itself.
Thoroughly wet the fiber. Lay the second piece of bubble wrap on top of the fiber and press.
Gently push down on the fiber moving your hands all over pressing the water through the layers of fiber. You don't want the fiber to be sopping wet but do make sure the water completely penetrates the fibers.
Carefully peel back the bubble wrap to check and see that the fiber is thoroughly wet. If not, add more soapy water. Put the bubble wrap back and rub with your hands for five minutes or so.
Peel back the bubble wrap again, your fiber should be starting to hold together.
Now, roll up the bubble wrap and fiber. Wrapping the bubble wrap and fiber around a pool noodle works well too.
Whether using a pool noodle or not, wrap the layers of bubble wrap and fiber snug, and tie in several places with yarn, string, or rubber bands to hold in place.
Sop up excess water with a sponge, or pour off into a bucket or sink.
Begin rolling the pool noodle back and forth about 50 times.
Unroll. Adjust fiber as needed. Wet any dry areas. Turn 90 degrees, roll layers, tie, roll 50 times. Do this a total of four times, turning your piece 90 degrees each time.
When your flower passes the "pinch test", you are done. Pinch the fibers between two fingers, there should be no movement! If they still appear a loose, add a little more hot soapy water and continue rolling for a while longer. Repeat the "pinch test". If more felting is needed, you can also rub the flower on the boot mat.
Unroll bubble wrap and fiber. Warm up your flower with some very hot water.
Wad up fiber and throw it against the boot mat, in a bucket, or in your kitchen sink about 25 times. Yes throw it! This causes the fibers to shrink and harden a bit.
Open up your flower, stretch the edges sideways. This will help ruffle your edges, (of the flower that is). Throw against your mat again about 25 times. Pull on the fiber to create petals, if desired, or cut petals. If cutting, rub on a textured surface just a little to soften the edges.
Rinse in a vinegar water solution (approximately 1/4 cup to 4-5 inches of water in your sink or a bucket), and then in plain water until the soap has been rinsed out. Roll in a towel to absorb excess moisture.
Grab the center of your flower from the back and scrunch it up towards the center. Use a twist tie or piece of yarn to tie the center. Shape your flower the way you would like it to look. Allow your flower to dry this way. I have read where people dry their flowers in egg cartons to help maintain the shape. I have also used the umbrella hole in my rod iron table, or a coffee mug. Your flower will dry quickly outside on a sunny day, or near a fan inside, or close to a heat vent in the winter.
When dry you could needle felt a center, sew on a button or beads, or leave as is. Leave the yarn you have tied the flower with in place to give dimension to your flower, or remove it, scrunch up your flower towards the middle again and needle felt around the base for the same effect. You can add as many "pleats" to your flower as you like, then needle felt them, to create more dimension to your flower.
Just like in nature, there are many kinds of flowers when it comes to felting, along with various techniques. Be creative, and have fun felting!
Felted Bouquet Wet Felting Kit
This is a kit available through our Online Store or in The Fiber Studio at Alpaca Meadows. Click on the link or the image above to see videos for wet felting some basic flowers. Click my board on Pinterest called Felted Flowers to see some favorites from other fiber artists. You will find a few tutorials there too!
Live nearby? Get a group together and come take my Wet Felting Fancy Flower Class!
Be sure to check out Knitting and Crocheting Flowers for more flower fun!


text:
Lake Managua (also known as Lake Xolotlán), a lake in Nicaragua, takes on various hues of grey, brown and green from sediments and algae. The city of Managua, the country's capital, lies on its southeastern shore, visible in the full image as a tan area between the lake and the surrounding bright green vegetation.
At 1,042 km², it is approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) long and 25 kilometres (15 miles) wide. A peninsula can be seen jutting into the lake from its southern side – this is Apoyeque, a pyroclastic shield volcano with a 2.8-km wide, 400-m-deep, lake-filled caldera.


text:
Do you want to make a connection with someone or simply put them at ease? Try copying their gestures and poses. Carol Kinsey Goman, author of "The Nonverbal Advantage," explains how to use body language "mirroring" as a communication tool.
Category Archives: Reading Body Language
Why Rapport is Important
Derren Brown shows us how important rapport skills are and how to use mirroring to connect with people.
How to Understand People and Like Them Anyway
In this entertaining talk, Dr.Dorsey and Pam Deaton share how to understand people by learning the four basic personality types. A must watch.


text:
Press Releases
Alexander Statement on Upcoming General Petraeus Testimony on Iraq War
"General Petraeus has put us on a new path toward a successful and honorable end to the Iraq war." – Lamar Alexander
Posted on April 4, 2008
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today released the following statement regarding his expectations for the congressional testimony General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, will deliver next week: "General Petraeus has put us on a new path toward a successful and honorable end to the Iraq war. I would describe it as the Iraq Study Group recommendations as edited by Petraeus. There has been a shift in mission for our troops from combat to support and a stepped-up diplomatic and political effort. There has been recognition that we'll have a long-term, but steadily diminishing, presence in Iraq, as more troops begin coming out than going in. "I believe there is widespread agreement that the Petraeus plan and the surge of troops that went with that plan have been a military success thus far. I would like to hear General Petraeus' thoughts on two questions: First, what progress are we making along the path toward a successful end to the war in Iraq? Second, now that we've implemented a successful American-led military surge, what are the prospects for an Iraqi-led diplomatic and political surge to speed the end of the war? "It's time for an Iraqi-led political and diplomatic surge. Let the Iraqis do more to reconcile their political differences, pay more of their own bills, and persuade their neighbors to locate embassies in Baghdad." ###


text:
Batch 6 is here with a statement.
With focus on comfort, the new bawal cotton turki (BCT 50) will blow you away with impossible mix of comfort, lightness, coolness and confident vibe.
Made from Kilima Cotton, this is sure to be the most comfortable hijab in the world! For those that have been die-hard fans, it is good news as the new colours was hand-picked to cater your demanding needs.
For those new to bawal cotton turki, you don't know what you've been missing out.
Material: Kilima cotton (Quality Turkish Kilima Cotton)
Size: Bidang 50 (120cmx120cm)
[Grade B] This version is introduced for the budget minded. Same beautiful colours and specifications, only cheaper! The quality is near perfect, although there may be some blemishes and tiny flaws, but most people never notice.
Disclaimer : Colours may be differ slightly due to lighting conditions or phone's display.


text:
Want to get in touch with Jon?
• For DATE-ONOMICS publicity interviews and author events, contact Noreen Herits at email@example.com or (212) 614-7775.
• To book Jon as a speaker for an event or conference, contact Carol Schneider of The Workman Speakers Bureau at email@example.com or (212) 614-7771.
• To contact Jon directly, you can email him at: dateonomics [at] gmail [dot] com
[NOTE: The contact form formerly on this page was not functioning properly. If you tried to contact Jon via the contact form but received no response, please try again at the email address above.]


text:
The Butterfly Effect
PUBLISHED: 16:21 17 March 2008 | UPDATED: 15:04 20 February 2013
Once we get into April there is a good chance of seeing half a dozen species of butterfly, and most of these have one thing in common, they will have spent the winter in hibernation and emerged as adults. The peacock, painted lady, brimstone and s...
The orange-tip can be seen on the wing between April and August but is most numerous in April and May. It was once known as the 'lady of the woods' and can often be seen flying through woodland, though it is more likely to be encountered laying its eggs along hedgerows or even in damp pastures, where the food plants of its caterpillars can be found.
The male and female of this species are very different. Males have an orange patch on their forewing, giving the species its name, whereas females simply have a smudgy black margin to the forewing. Both sexes have the same markings on their rear underwing, which is usually all we see when a butterfly is at rest; this intricate mossy-green veining is actually as attractive and distinctive as the male's orange wing tips. In flight the male orange-tip is one of our most easily identified species, the orange tips to its wings contrasting markedly with the creamy-white of the majority of its upper wings.
Fortunately, the male of this species is more active than the female and is therefore more likely to be seen. He doesn't try to defend a territory, in fact he will wander widely along hedgerows and other linear features. When he meets another male orange-tip a small-scale squabble may take place, but these butterflies seem too graceful to show real aggression and they soon go their separate ways.
The female usually lies low, only when she is laying her eggs does she become more active. Orange-tips lay their eggs on cuckoo flower ('Cardamine pratensis'), garlic mustard ('Alliara petiolata'), hedge mustard, aka 'Jack-by-the-hedge' ('Sisymbrium officinale') and other related plants. The eggs are tiny, elongated and orange, with a ribbed surface. They are laid amongst the young flower heads or on the fresh shoots of its chosen plant types but only one egg is laid on each plant because the caterpillars can become cannibalistic if too many occur together.
The orange-tip butterfly can be seen on the wing between April and August but is most numerous in April and May
Once the eggs hatch, the caterpillars eat the seed pods of the host plants, and looking for half-eaten seed pods is often the easiest way to find them, though they are exceptionally well camouflaged, since the caterpillars are designed to resemble these pods. The caterpillar of the orange-tip butterfly grows to about 3cm. Its underside is dark green, its back varies from bluish-grey to greyish-green and it has a white stripe along its flanks. After fattening itself during May and June the caterpillar pupates during July, often attaching itself to a twig but hardly ever to its host plant. The chrysalis of an orange-tip is brown or green and is pointed, closely resembling a broken twig. The chrysalis will remain dormant until the following April or May, when an adult butterfly will emerge and the whole process starts again.
To attract this butterfly to your garden it is worth planting seeds of its host plant. The cuckoo flower (or lady's smock) has a very attractive flower which blooms in April, and its name is related to the time of year in which it flowers. In 1597, writer John Gerard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerard) wrote about the cuckoo flower that it flowers 'for the most part in April and May, when the cuckoo begins to sing her pleasant note'. This beautiful but very subtle-coloured lilac flower grows in wet meadows and, where conditions are suitable, it can flourish in great numbers.
If you have a garden pond then this is a good species to plant around its grassy margin, otherwise any damp piece of grassland will suffice. As well as attracting the orange-tip, the cuckoo flower will also play host to the green-veined white butterfly.
Garlic mustard and hedge mustard don't seem to be as readily available in wild-flower seed packets but there is another flower that can easily be grown in gardens and which is also tempting to the orange-tip, and that is honesty, a very common garden flower. Wild-flower seeds can often be bought in local garden centres but there are some online locations that specialise in native flower species. One such company that can supply seeds from just about any wild-flower species is called Landlife Wildflowers (www.wildflower.org.uk).
I find that setting out to attract wildlife to the garden is the most exciting and rewarding form of gardening, and there is nothing quite like seeing a wild creature, such as an orange-tip butterfly, taking up your kind offer of hospitality. BY DAVID CHAPMAN
Do you know any great spots for butterfly watching in Somerset? Exchange tips with other readers on our Forum www.somerset-life.co.uk/forums


text:
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small-scale strings of text that the sites visited by a user send to the user's terminal (usually to the browser), where they are memorised, so that they can be retransmitted back to the sites in question at the time of the user's next visit.
Types of cookies utilised
The internet site www.gruppogesmar.com uses only technical cookies.
To be precise, the site uses the following types of cookies:
- those known as session cookies, whose sole function is to optimise the visit to the site, meaning that they are designed to do nothing more than ensure the best possible navigation within the site. The session cookies used by this internet site do not permit the acquisition of personal identifying data regarding the user.
- analytic cookies (specifically, Google Analytics) are used solely for statistical purposes, in order to determine which pages are viewed most frequently by visitors to the site, how long visitors remain on the site and what geographic area the users find themselves in. This information is used in aggregate form.
How can I disable cookies?
Most browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc.) are configured to accept cookies, but they also provide the option, by means of their settings, of disabling cookies.
It should be noted, however, that disabling the cookies may cause the internet site to malfunction.
The user is always free to disable the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on the browser.
In order to disable analytical cookies and prevent Google Analytics from collecting information on your navigation, you may also download the browser's supplementary component for the deactivation of Google Analytics.


text:
The Travel Massive Edinburgh community enjoyed a fantastic networking evening on the roof of the Forth View Suite at The George Hotel Edinburgh on Thursday 14 July 2016.
Chapter Leaders Katy Duncan and Lesley Judge were delighted to welcome several new faces, with guests from Australia, the US and France and plenty of locals at heart and soon-to-be locals at heart.
One of the most positive things about Travel Massive is that it's a global travel community which people anywhere in the world can tap into and find others in common. For July we wanted to highlight some of the best things about being #localatheart – that is, welcoming new visitors to Edinburgh, inviting our community to get together, to find out more about Travel Massive, and hear from local businesses and suppliers about how they can work together.
Guests enjoyed a welcome from the Travel Massive Edinburgh team before hearing from Natalie Allera Harris, Marketing Manager of the George Hotel, about the hotel's recent refurbishment, the new event spaces and rooms. Local artist and designer Cherith Harrison showcased some of her latest work and we were invited to a show-round of the hotel's new upgraded rooms.
Katy Duncan shared insights into the Travel Massive Edinburgh community – our business sectors include tour operators, content creators, accommodation providers, innovators and business tourism – and Katy also reminded us of Travel Massive tools such as the new jobs board and more. Fast approaching 300 travel insiders, we're currently the largest UK chapter outside London, thanks to an engaged, enthusiastic and generous Edinburgh travel community.
The competition wall proved popular with some neat prizes being won, including dinner for 2 at The Printing Press, lunch for 2 at Burr & Co, and some beautifully designed merchandise from Cherith; and everyone went home with a cool goody bag – thank you to both Natalie and Cherith for sponsoring prizes.
The sun shone, the wine flowed, we enjoyed quality networking and memorable views across to Fife from the terrace.
Thanks again to The George Hotel in association with Cherith Harrison, and to our community for support.
Find more images from the evening's event via the tags #travelmassive #edinburgh
Save the date for our next Travel Massive Edinburgh event on Thursday 11 August 2016.


text:
FIAT 500 Car Dust Cover For 2012 FIAT 500 Models
This awesome FIAT 500 car cover will give your FIAT 500 that Retro European look while protecting your car. The FIAT 500 car cover is now available in the USA and Canada. Suitable for indoor use and covers the entire car including the wheels. Adorned with a classic FIAT 500 image this FIAT 500 car cover is sure to turn heads anywhere you decide to use it. Protect your investment with this Genuine USA FIAT accessory brought to you by FIAT Accessories USA.


text:
What is the Shard Dunny?
To celebrate Halloween in 2016, Kidrobot issued Tolleson's The Odd Ones Dunny Series, a collection featuring creepy and monstrous designs as filtered through the artist's cartoonishly cute aesthetic. Then in mid-2017, made as a stand-alone accompaniment to this set, Tolleson offered the Shard Dunny in its debut Frost edition, these pieces being professionally cast in resin rather than factory-produced in vinyl. Having been sculpted in this approximately 3-inch tall form by SeriouslySillyK (Kathleen Voigt), Tolleson's crystalline design was reminiscent of the gemstone golem creatures that appeared in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons.
For the 2017 DesignerCon, the sophomore color scheme of the Shard Dunny, Kryptonite, was issued as well as the debut of a roughly 5-inch tall rendition of the form, offered in editions matching the two colorations of the smaller version offered to date. For this new larger depiction, Tolleson opted to sculpt the form himself, granting it a cohesive feel with its predecesor while simultaneously being uniquely detailed for this new size. And this recently added rendition was provided to an array of artists to decorate, their unique works forming Broke Piggy's Shard Show.
The Shard Show Exhibition
Scott Tolleson's Everlasting Shardstopper
Although only briefly mentioned in Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its 2005 film adaptation, the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory used the fictional Everlasting Gobstopper candy as a major plot device. Described as a candy that changes colors and flavors as it is chewed, these became an inspiration for Tolleson's own contribution to the Shard Show, the Everlasting Shardstopper. With vibrant, pastel washes of color adorning the form, Tolleson's rendition mimics the actual Everlasting Gobstopper candies produced by Breaker Confections and, later, Nestlé, which were normal jawbreakers typically composed of three discrete layers of differing colors, the innermost one commonly being pink, mirroring the Everlasting Shardstopper's body coloration.
Dolly Oblong's Shard Dunny
It's not uncommon for Netherlands-based designer toy collective Dolly Oblong to mine popular culture for their creations, so this expertly augmented Shard Dunny taking the form of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters isn't completely surprising. Given subtle shading through delicately applied icy blues over the white base, the solid shock of blue residing along the lip emits the illusion of a spectral illumination.
J*RYU's Ol' Crusty
When lit up, artist Jesse "JRYU" Yu's Ol' Crusty piece appears to be formed out of thick rock formations floating upon a sea of magma underneath. Immaculately sculpted in a perfectly imperfect looking rough-hewn form, the boulder protuberance on the base twists to switch the internal lighting on and off. Emerging alongside the graceful cracks in the faux stone hide, the artist incorporates his stylized signature (J★RYU) beautifully into the backside.
Squink's Maximus
With the rabbit-like ears of the Dunny decorated to appear as mineral eruptions bursting forth from the form's base, UK-based artist Squink (Chris Booker) has carefully crafted the look of igneous rock on most of this work's structure. Employing small areas of discoloration on the surface, delicately executed paints grant a crisp lightness to the edgings while splatters of white and black flecks finish the piece's seamlessly natural appearance.
Jenn & Tony Bot's Isn't She a Gem
The husband-and-wife team of Jenn & Tony Bot, a duo also referred to as The Bots, use their signature hand mixed polymer clay coating over designer toy forms to transform their Shard Dunny into the Isn't She a Gem piece. Rendered with strata coarsing through the sculpted formation, this work's pock marked hide grants the textured look of true stone which contrasts wonderfully against the smooth, cartoonishly colorful crystal-shaped protrusions emerging throughout. With a completely handmade minecart filled with extracted crystaline forms, the gleefully cute impish miner atop this sculpture is perched in a relaxed sitting position, his delicately crafted pickaxe still clutched in one hand.
64 Colors' Rock Hound
Accredited to 64 Colors but most likely painted by member Laura Parsons, this Shard Dunny rendition features a canine snout and expressively detailed eyes. With subtle blush coloration dabbed onto the cheeks, lower lip, and ears, this Rock Hound piece is a tribute to those who dig for crystals, whether as a professional or an amateur enthusiast.
Doktor A's Quentin Facet
Artist Doktor A (Bruce Whistlecraft) is known for his signature Mechtorian creations, a series of geometrically-shaped robots that his Quentin Facet contribution aesthetically matches perfectly. Sculpted to appear as if it were formed of metal plates riveted together, with its glistening eyes being the sole differential, there is a tarnishing and patina emerging at various points across the form to give the majority a feel of variance. Emitting an undeniable steampunk vibe, the addition of a clockwork key to the backside is a charming final touch.
Candie Bolton's 金継ぎ
Following the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which embraces the beauty of imperfection, there is an art form known as kintsugi that involves repairing broken pottery without disguising the breakage, noting this aspect as part of the object's history. And it's not a coincidence that Candie Bolton's contribution to the Shard Show is titled 金継ぎ, the kanji for kintsugi. Using the airbrush painted areas to emphasize the edges of the forms, Bolton creates the look of a disjointed reconstruction, one finished with 24k gold foil, a typical metallic hue used in the kintsugi technique. An inventive homage to this Japanese art form, Bolton's piece is truly an exercise in smart and subtle execution.
Scribe's Shard-ski
Having used stylized depictions of animals throughout his career to convey stories, Scribe (D.Ross) reimagined his Shard Dunny's form into the likeness of a shark. Removing its ears and adding a fin atop its head as well as an elongated nose, these newly sculpted aspects are given an angular nature and cracked adornment to cohesively merge them into the whole's aesthetic. Decorated with flowing shapes that conform with Scribe's street art background, the illustrations adorning this perfect predator's head simultaneously imply a tribal and tag-like nature.
Seriously Silly K's Shhhard – Our little secret
While there's a sense of menace in the scene depicted, artist SeriouslySillyK (Kathleen Voigt) describes the pair within in her Shhhard – Our little secret piece to be a little girl and her big brother. Having radically restructured the Shard Dunny aspect, especially notable in its more subtle jawline and completely new set of hands, this narrative seems to involve the little girl, tentatively known as Gemma, caught in the midst of riffling through her brother's gem collection. With Gemma created in a similar style to the child component of Voigt's KRampus Dunny collaboration with Tolleson (read more here), this little girl character has actual amethysts creating her Dunny-like ears. And while Gemma is hiding one stray crystal behind her back, her big brother is concealing something greater: there is a hollowed out compartment in the back of his head, its contents locked behind a lid held in place by a magnet. As for what secret is housed within, that is only for the artist and piece's owner to know.
Jeremiah Ketner's Shard Dunny
With vibrant colors playfully gracing Jeremiah Ketner's Shard Dunny, each facet's hue complimentary interacts with the ones surrounding it. The whole being tied together by delicately applied embellishments, Ketner's contribution revels in the painterly strokes and brush marks left in the wake of his acrylics being applied thoughtfully to the form.
Luke Chueh's Blood from a Stone
The phrase blood from a stone implies an impossible task, but it is one that artist Luke Chueh has aptly named his work for the Shard Show after. Decorating the form with rock-like hues, a frenzied stream of red coloration oozes forth from the sculpture's eyes. Implying that even the impossible can be made possible, Chueh's use of blood in his art typically carries the connotation of regret but here it becomes symbolic of hope.
Mark Nagata's Galaxy Shard
Rendering a galactic snapshot across the form of his Shard Dunny creation, Mark Nagata's Galaxy Shard is a colorful exploration of the cosmos. Containing the infinite vastness of space within such a small shell, swirling star clusters lure the eye to traverse this form, gazing not upon blackness but rich clouds of color composing the solar system.
MAp-MAp's Shard Dunny
The cycloptic, anthropomorphized tree atop the contribution by MAp-MAp (Matt Plater) is reminiscent of a yorishiro, a divine tree surrounded by a sacred rope. Found sandwiched between the work's Dunny ears, these have been remodeled to have mask-like faces similar to those of the tree-inhabiting kodama spirits from Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. Whether these allusions are intentional or not on Plater's part, the tree's roots are depicted reaching throughout the earth that the Shard Dunny represents, mysteriously stopping just shy of a large gem sculpted into the piece's backside.
Leecifer's Shard Dunny
With the cracks in its form filled to create veins of gold, the Shard Dunny contribution by Leecifer (Lee Gajda) is a truly thoughtful creation. While the highlights and shading to the pink base are wisely executed, as are the flecks that accent the shape's assymetrical form, it is the blacklight reactive nature of the whole that really makes this work shine.
Kristina Drake's Shard Dunny
Sculpting crystalline growths and aspects have long been an signature element of Kristina Drake's art pieces, and it is one which she embraces for her Shard Dunny contribution. Adorning her piece with a plethora of crystal outcroppings, each made in a style matching the original's shape, the slight variations in her form's purple coloration are accented by slender shocks of white highlighting.
The Kidrobot Design Team's Luka Lava
With fiery streams hinted below their contribution's blackened shell, the Kidrobot Design Team have transformed their Shard Dunny into the piece titled Luka Lava. Created by Johnny Draco, Yoshizuma Kumi, Lauren Nus, and Sharon Park in collaboration, this work's most memorable aspect are the micro-sized Dunny figures depicted climbing atop the form as well as scattered around the lava-like display base. Of particularly humorous note is the singular Dunny's head within the molten flow that is brandishing a cigarette in its lips, an image that immediately recalls the signature creation of Kidrobot's Chief Creative Officer, Frank Kozik, the Smorkin' Labbit.
The Shard Show, a group exhibition featuring interpretations of Scott Tolleson's Shard Dunny, was part of the two-day only DesignerCon event held on November 11th & 12th, 2017 at the Pasadena Convention Center (300 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101).
Having first opened its doors in 2006 under the Vinyl Toy Network guise, this twice-yearly gathering of designer toy movement artists and producers would, only three years later, become an annual event under the new name DesignerCon. And artist Paul Copeland, also known as Paulkaiju, would be present for this…
A frequent debate among artists within the designer toy movement concerns where the line between work of art and collectible toy lies. That is to say, at what point does the artist's voice become secondary to whatever part of popular culture is being referenced in a piece. And while no…