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Reading & video games are both advantageous to a child learning experience.
How can we manufacture reading & writing games that offers immediate reward like the video games do.
Children are stimulated to play video games mainly because of the reward they receive for every task achieved through playing the game. As described by some, it is the desire to see what happens next in the preceding stage that gives the kick which makes the child wants to play the game.
Although some games promote aggression and violent responses to conflict, not all games simulate those types of behaviors. SimCity promote knowledge that can be useful to a child as that child grows up to understand the world he or she lives in.
Reading on the other hand, is a mind exercising function. Most children do not develop a kick for reading until they are a little older. I must also add that parents can help the child develop this function by playing an active role through participating in the reading exercise with the child. However, the reward obtains from reading books are far less acknowledged from a child perspective than an adult.
The advantages that a child gets from reading books are directly related to future benefits that are available in today's society. The information obtained from reading good books is important to a child education, long – term career benefits and future goals.
Games are relevant to real life situations in the sense that they reward a child when they've done well and punish them when they have failed to achieved a task. As we often noted in real life situations, when someone does good he is rewarded, and punished when done wrong.
The same logic is often applied to game playing, except in some games the past is so close to the future that it often reminds the child of the previous mistakes. Perhaps, the reason why a child learn faster when playing video game relates to his or her interpretation of past experiences.
As it is known by some, before anyone can learn anything, perception must take place. The child must become aware of what is being taught through one of the senses. Meaning, the child has to hear, feel or see what is being taught before he or she can interpret the lesson through those senses.
In the case of video games, in some situation, all three of those senses are applied in the learning experience. And it's because of that we say video games can help a child learn faster than books.
Reading on the other hand, only occupied one of the senses which we all know as seeing. One can read a material and yet has no understanding of what they have read. Reading requires children to apply their cognitive skills which are attention, memory & symbolic thinking.
As some parents have noticed, some have argued that cognitive skills are a necessity when it comes to play video games. Attention, memory & symbolic thinking are all required for a child to be a successful game player. As stated by Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) "we see things not as there are but as we are."
Since a child focus mostly on playing games for the purpose of rewards, anything that does not involved immediate reward has no interest to that child. Now the question that comes to mind is how can we manufacture reading & writing games that offers immediate reward as the child plays the game?
The advantages that a child gets from reading books can be categorized in two groups. The information gathered from the books and the mental work that goes into processing and storing the information gathered. The mental benefits of reading incorporate the power of imagination, attention and concentration.
Reading encourages people to become active participant in their society, participate in entertainment, events that leads to progress. Unfortunately, the national endowment released a study in 2004 that showed reading for pleasure had declined among all groups of Americans. That was since 2004, we are now in 2009.
It must be reminded that Tex messaging (short hand) is not reading nor is it writing, let us not confuse that for reading & writing since we care less about writing full sentences when writing texting. Tex messaging contained too much short hand writing which carries no merit for literary content.
Studies have proved that violent games can promote aggression in some children. Likewise, studies have also showed that violent movies are also capable of stimulating aggression. However, they have been no studies that can prove that reading books influences violent behavior in children, even when considering horror novels.
The supporting argument state that children often lose their attention or gets distracted when reading books because the reading materials at most times do not captivate the child as the video games do, whereas the graphic details of the video games plus the violent actions portrayed by actors will always captured the child attention.
The graphical violence signals stimuli to the child subconscious mind that is not in common with previous graphical record obtain by the child mind. As the child adapt to those graphical violence the child becomes less sensible to violent behavior and therefore adapt to those graphical violence as the norm.
Meaning, when the child sees again that graphical violence, his mind produces an habitual response to these images. This is not to say that this will cause the child to adapt to real violence, because real violence has a different notation in the sense that it can be sudden and painful.
Although some video games promote violent behavior, they do have some benefits. It is true that playing video games do in fact improve one's visual intelligence and hand coordination, but having the ability to read goes far beyond these advantages. I see video games as a means for someone to improve his or her cognitive skills.
A cognitive skill is a skill that must be taught. A skill needed for laying the foundation for immediate and future awards. Like learning the alphabet, numbers or a trade in college, certain video games can be categorized as such. For example, a pilot simulation game can help prepare someone who wants to pursue a career in aviation.
Likewise reading is also a cognitive skill, except that it demands more concentration than video games. Whereas, playing video games can be done by just paying attention, reading requires concentration for proper understanding. And also where video games help to prepare one in acquiring visual and mechanical skills, reading focuses more on literary and analytical skills.
Therefore, you cannot become a medical doctor by simply playing a medical gross Anatomy game. As an example: Logical thinking and long attention span which are not often required in video games would be an important skill to become a medical doctor.
One of the differences between playing a video game vs. reading is that the player of the video games often focuses his short attention span on the opponents, whereas reading takes every subject in account. It would also be useful if some video game manufactures can built applicable functions in the video games to take all subjects in consideration just as reading would require a reader to do.
In video games they are no subliminal messages, every message is forward, the gamer either respond to it or don't. However, that is not the case for reading, in reading, depending on the writer, there are sometimes subliminal messages hidden within the writing as a mean to cause the reader to think.
Now, we know that depending on the video game there's not that much thinking going on.
But more importantly, the problem we have with video games is that most games are programmed to function on an interactive platform design to project a false reality of life. When one stops playing, when facing the real world, one can find themselves unable to manage conflict logically. In this case the ability to think before one act goes onto the back burner. The person becomes so irrational that the ego is engulfed by all those illogical concepts assembled during the period of game playing but the game player doesn't realize it until he or she faces a conflict that they could have avoided, and as a result, this is where art begins to imitate life.
However, although we truly think reading is important for future benefits, we must include that reading sometime cause one to be unoriginal when writing literary content. Those people sometime borrow too much from their favorite authors. Their writings have become a reflection of those authors and thereby carry alone with them their author's ideas without ever attempting to challenge them first before acceptance.
However, reading is a good exercise for the mind, it prepares one for future opportunities & helps one to appreciate and respect other writer's literary content. It seems like now days most people do their readings on line. They seem to be too occupied to pick up a book, but good writings and those who are famous will always attract readers. We are a country of gossipers, if one write today about whose celebrity boyfriend was caught with whose celebrity's girlfriend, it will make the bestselling book tomorrow.
We believe that both reading & writing are important to a child learning experiences. And if video games can be manufactured to cater to a child attention span while being less violence this game would a benefit to society at large.
Reading is great for kids, video games also, but you have to be very careful about what kind of video game the young ones are playing.
its a useful infromation and to see the list of kids-videos check http://blogplace4u.com/kids-activities/kids-videos
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Ah, right, I see what you mean. Sorry for the confusion. I take it your point is that someone playing a violent video game adapts to the violence in the context of the game, as opposed to becoming to believe that violence generally is the norm in reality.
Back to the main point of the hub, I had a friend who bought a game that was based entirely around the crusades. He said "I'm going to learn way more here then I did in any history class." He was probably right. I think people have more of a desire to learn when the learning experience is interactive and they have some control. With a school class the teacher can appear like a dictator that you always have to follow the lead of. Reading is not as interactive but you do have complete control and can stop if you don't like it.
It's good to see you defending video games as a form of learning. However I still don't buy the concept that entertainment with simulated violence makes people believe that violence is normal in reality. I think the fact the violence is in an abstract context actually re-affirms the belief that violence belongs to the abstract. I do remember a case once when someone after watching 2 fast 2 furious (not a type of movie I'd personally bother watching) got straight into his car and died in a high speed crash. But some people are just uncontrolled and compulsive, if a piece of simulated violence/action doesn't push them over the edge then something else will. It's not as if Jack the Ripper saw any horror films.


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Chris Cohen has returned to match action after 10 months on the Nottingham Forest sidelines.The midfielder resumed his playing career in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Alfreton Town at the Academy yesterday.
He played for 45 minutes as all members of Sean O'Driscoll's squad had a run-out and helped The Reds to a 4-1 win.
Cohen had been unavailable since suffering a serious knee ligament injury against Derby at The City Ground in September of last year.
And he told us: "It was amazing to play again. I've been back in training for a while but there's no substitute for a match situation.
"I've been out for a long time but everything felt fine. The knee felt a little bit sore afterwards but that's to be expected.
"I'll be able to train today, rest up tomorrow and hopefully be involved in the other games over the next week or so.
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Lessons are starting back for many of us, and if you use a mobile device in your lessons or if you want to help your child at home, this is a great time to try out Note Rush. This app is on the Apple App Store and Google Play so you can use it with an iPhone, iPad, and many Android devices.
The developer of Note Rush made it to help students learn notes because his wife is a piano teacher. Students see the note on the staff and try to quickly play the note on the piano. The app listens to what is played and can tell if the note is played correctly. I discovered a long time ago that students need to know not only the names of the notes, but where they are on the piano. What good does it do to know the name of the note if they can't find it on their instrument? Note Rush is a great way to review notes for the One Minute Club.
You can use any instrument with this app because it detects the sound waves of the instrument and can tell if the student plays the correct note. You do not use cables or plugs. Just set the device on the music rack or hold it so the student can see it. Flash cards pop up on the screen and the students plays them. Note Rush will let the student know if the note is played incorrectly. It works with digital as well as acoustic instruments.
When you open Note Rush, students have three different icons they can use for notes: soccer ball, ladybug, or planet, with different backgrounds for each one. The teacher, student, or parent selects the appropriate level. There are five levels to choose from:
- Starter – the notes around middle C
- Part Staff – bass C to treble C
- Whole Staff – low F to high G
- Just Ledgers – Ledger line notes
- Grand Challenge – Low C to High C
In each of the above levels, you can select the notes to be either all treble, all bass, or both. That makes 15 different variations to choose from.
If you get frustrated with iPad apps that are not user-friendly, you will find Note Rush super simple to use and very fast to set up. With just a touch of your finger you easily change levels. There are no complicated menus to figure out.
My students were beta-testers for this app, so I have used it extensively with an iPad. They enjoyed it and thought it was fun and helpful. It is very moderately priced for the work that was involved in making it. For my readers all over the globe, here is the price breakdown as of the time of this post:
If you want to read more about it, visit the Note Rush website.
Please be aware that there are many Android devices and this app has not been tested on all of them.
[Disclosure: I was a beta-tester for Note Rush. I received no compensation either as a tester or for this review. These are my personal opinions.]


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The Study Method Review
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I am always looking for new and effective ways to learn and memorize information. I purchased 'The Study Method' to see what it had to offer.
In this review I give my personal experience with this product, how well it worked for me, and some of the shortcomings of the product. By the end of this review you should have a good idea if "The Study Method" will be helpful for you.
What is included in "The Study Method"
This product is a single e-book delivered in pdf format. The book is 87 pages and is designed as a mini-course containing descriptions of techniques with exercises to help you learn the material. The book is also easy to read (I finished it in a few hours over the course of two days).
The book is divided into four main sections:
- Memory Systems
- Numbers
- Note-Taking
- Memory Systems In Action
Since the book contains exercises there is also an Answers section at the end.
The purchase is setup such that you only pay one dollar when you buy it and you pay the remainder of the cost 21 days later. This allows you to try the product at practically no risk since you can cancel your order if you are not happy.
I should also mention what isn't included in "The Study Method". Many books that include memory systems often apply them to 'tricks' you can use to impress your friends such as how to memorize a deck of cards, or tell what item was removed from a collection of items. These types of techniques are not included.
"The Study Method" is designed specifically to help students so it focuses only on techniques that help you learn course material more effectively.
How "The Study Method" works
The first section, "Memory Systems", provides five different memory techniques that can be used to memorize information. These techniques form the basis of the remaining sections.
The memory techniques that are presented are easy to learn and use. However, these techniques by themselves can only be applied to limited information - typically lists of concrete nouns. These techniques are useful for remembering collections of information such as common terminology in a subject, a shopping list, sets of words like the colors in a rainbow, or the names of the planets.
In the section "Numbers" four different techniques are given that can be used to memorize numbers. These techniques, combined with the techniques in the first section expand the kinds of information that can be memorized to include numbered lists, tables of information, and arbitrary numbers of any length. With these techniques you can memorize phone numbers, dates, or even tables such as the periodic table of the elements.
The section on "Note Taking" isn't so much about taking goods notes as it is about how to organize your notes in a way that lends itself to the memory techniques from the first two sections. This section is where the first two sections really come together to form an overall approach to getting the most out of your learning and study efforts.
In the final section, "Memory Systems in Action", you are given advanced strategies that can be applied to memorizing and learning topics such as recurring terminology in a given subject, memorizing complex words such as medical terminology, memorizing passages of text such as a speech, and learning vocabulary and grammar of a new language.
After reading through this book you will not only have a good grasp of basic memory techniques and how to apply them, you will also see how to use memory systems in new ways that may be better suited to whatever information you are learning.
My Experience with "The Study Method"
Although I am no longer a student, when I was, my primary approach to studying for exams involved reviewing the course material and making study notes from it. I would then spend hours reviewing my notes over and over hoping that it would somehow stick in my head. Sometimes it would and sometimes it wouldn't.
Looking back, I realize that I was lacking a systematic way to ensure the information I was trying to memorize would actually be stored in my memory. I have since learned that such systems exist.
The techniques given in "The Study Method" are intended to address this exact situation. These techniques can help you organize your notes and commit the information to memory.
If I had known these techniques when I was a student, I could have spent my time actually memorizing my course material instead of hoping I would be able to recall it on my next text. Studying would have seemed less like a futile chore and would have been more of a rewarding experience.
Some of the memory techniques presented in "The Study Method" have been around for centuries and have been effectively used throughout history. Since graduating from school, I have applied some of these techniques (that I learned elsewhere) with great success.
For example, I have already learned the technique for memorizing numbers that is presented in the book. I have applied this method to remembering phone numbers in the past. Many years later I am still able to recall phone numbers from memory - in some cases I can recall both current and previous phone numbers of friends.
However, what I enjoyed most about this book was that it took common memory techniques and adapted them to the types of learning tasks that a student would typically be involved in. Much of this approach was new to me and I found it very useful.
I am already teaching these techniques to my children to help them improve their study efforts and hopefully their grades as well.
While I enjoyed "The Study Method" and found the information useful, there were a few things that I felt could have been improved on.
At only 87 pages the book is fairly short. Some of the sections I felt could have been fleshed out a bit more. However, the short length did make it a fast read - something any busy student will appreciate.
A lot of the memory techniques presented in the book can be found online for free. Keep in mind, though, this book does collect them all in one place which makes them easier to learn. It also builds on these common techniques in a systematic way that you won't typically find elsewhere.
Don't expect to learn and apply these techniques while cramming the night before an exam. These techniques do take some time to learn. However, if you are in a pinch, the information in the first two chapters can go a long way in helping you improve your memory.
In summary, the book is short but does a good job of covering important information that will help anyone with their studying without taking a lot of time to read and apply.
If you are a student looking to get more out of your study time and improve your grades, this book will definitely help you.
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So let's be quite honest here and tell you that I shall not talk about the crazy times
that were spent this past week in Vegas.
I will PG this post and only show pics
and talk about the trip in good fashion.
End Rant.
1st off let me say that I do not like flying home late Saturday night,
and starting work Monday morning.
My alarm went off at 4:45 a.m. this morning,
which to me is 2:45 a.m. Vegas time.
That would be what time I was usually going to bed...
Now for the pictures!
This was the view from our hotel room.
We stayed at Planet Hollywood & loved it!
Confusing as hell to get in and out of the casino there,
but still a great place to stay!
Eric did a lot of this...
We lost a lot of $$$.
Ah isn't this hotel pretty?
It's the Cosmopolitan Hotel
We actually talked about staying here sometime,
now... not so much.
We saw 2 shows while we were there...
Beatles Love & Absinthe.
Both were amazing,
both I would definitely see again!
This is us cheering our 1st drink at Hard Rock...
Between 2 beers (in hand),
Macaroni & Cheese for me,
Salad for Eric,
Our bill came to $100!
I shit you not, it was insane!!
Me & one of my besties.
We had the best time together,
pretty much like we always do!
And of course,
we had to take cute selfie together last night in town.
Such a fun vacay,
but definitely glad to be home...
Mainly because we got to do this all day Sunday...
And she loved it!
Happy Monday!


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Jizo Bosatsu is a well loved Japanese Bodhisattva. "He who encompasses the earth". A Bodhisattva is one who stays on earth until all beings are saved. Jizo vowed to help all sentient beings from torment and protect all children. Jizo is often known to be a protective family deity.
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In Rotary's 2017 master catalog, a special 108-page chain saw section features photos, illustrations and descriptions with cross-over charts, a saw chain numbering system, and a chain link diagram. Rotary also offers a complete line of Copperhead chain saw bars, plus bar and chain combo kits, chisel and semi-chisel chain in 25-foot or 100-foot reels and cut loops among its vast lineup of parts, tools and accessories.
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Higher Purpose Publishing and Tony DUrso (host of Revenue Chat Radio) begins the search for Entrepreneurs to be included in their upcoming book project that will benefit The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa.
Mike Saunders President of Higher Purpose Publishing confirmed they have officially launched a Nationwide search for Entrepreneurs to be featured in the upcoming book, "Revenue Chat Presents: Elite Entrepreneurs—Learn From Experts. Model Their Success."
Explaining the search process, DUrso said, "This is an important book for us, so we'll be reaching out to a select group of Elite Entrepreneurs we feel are true advocates for the success of their customers and community, while at the same time committing to spread the word about a great organization like The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary."
Higher Purpose Publishing has pledged 100% of the royalties from the retail sales of the book to be donated to The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary.
Scheduled for a January 2017 release, "Revenue Chat Presents: Elite Entrepreneurs—Learn From Experts. Model Their Success." will spotlight each of the Elite Entrepreneurs selected from this search, sharing their insights and real world experiences.
DUrso said, "This book is more than simply discussing sales, marketing and successful actions of our Elite Entrepreneurs. The Elite Entrepreneurs we select are passionate about helping their customers. They will answer the most common questions and bust the myths and misconceptions so many people have about sales, marketing and leadership. The book, 'Revenue Chat Presents: Elite Entrepreneurs—Learn From Experts. Model Their Success.' will cover sales, marketing, leadership and successful actions that took these experts from zero to the pinnacle of success in their field—a lot information that is rarely talked about."
DUrso went on to describe the book as, "a powerful resource for startups, entrepreneurs, and small to mid-size business owners who want and need to achieve consistent high-level revenue that takes them up several notches in their business growth regardless of common obstacles such as skillful use of social media networks, increasing employee loyalty, improving customer service, adding revenue streams, and bolstering customer retention to name a few; despite common business headaches such as insufficient revenue flow, too many projects to complete, as well as a being in a very competitive industry."
With several industry leaders expressing interest in participating, Higher Purpose Publishing is expected to make an announcement revealing the final selections by Dec 15, 2016.
However, DUrso asserted, "One of the reasons we launched this search is because we didn't want to go the route of filling this book with the stereotypical 'experts.' This search would be unnecessary if that was the case. We anticipate a lot of exposure around this project, for both The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary and the people we select to feature in the book, so we really want to showcase those Elite Entrepreneurs who are actually in the trenches, working hard every day and willing to share that experience to benefit a great cause. That's what will make this a win-win-win project."
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Social perception in the real world : employing visual adaptation paradigms in the investigation of mechanisms underlying emotion and trustworthiness perception
Wincenciak, Joanna
October 2014
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- Abstract
Social context can substantially influence our perception and understanding of emotion and action of observed individuals. However, less is known about how temporal context can affect our judgement of behaviour of other people. The aim of this thesis was to explore how immediate perceptual history influences social perception. Further aims were: (i) to examine whether prior visual experience influences the perception of behaviour of other individuals in a naturalistic virtual environment resembling the real world; (ii) to determine whether our judgement of emotional state or trustworthiness of observed individuals is influenced by perceptual history, and (iii) by cognitive processes such as mental state attribution to the observer; (iv) to investigate whether processing of emotion information from dynamic, whole-body action is dependent on the processing of body identity, and (v) dependent on the body part that conveys it. Here, visual adaptation paradigms were used to examine systematic biases in social perception following prior visual experience, and to infer potential neural mechanisms underlying social perception. The results presented in this thesis suggest that perception and understanding of behaviour of other individuals in the naturalistic virtual environment are influenced by the behaviour of other individuals within the shared social environment. Specifically, in Chapter 3, I presented data suggesting that visual adaptation mechanisms examined thus far in laboratory settings may influence our everyday perception and judgement of behaviour of other people. In Chapters 4 and 5, I showed that these biases in social perception can be attributed to visual adaptation mechanisms, which code emotions and intentions derived from actions with respect to specific action kinematics and the body part that conveyed the given emotion. The results of experiments presented in Chapter 4 demonstrated that emotions conveyed by actions are represented with respect to, and independently of, actors' identity. These finding suggest that the mechanisms underlying processing of action emotion may operate in parallel with the mechanisms underlying processing emotion from other social signals such as face and voice. In Chapter 6, I showed that cognitive processes underlying Theory of Mind, such as mental state attribution, can also influence perceptual processing of emotional signals. Finally, results presented in Chapter 7 suggest that judgments of complex social traits such as trustworthiness derived from faces are also influenced by perceptual history. These results also yielded strong sex differences in assessing trustworthiness of an observed individual; female observers showed a strong bias in perception resulting from adaptation to (un)trustworthiness, while male observers were less influenced by prior visual context. Together these findings suggest that social perception in the real world may be sensitive not only to the social context in which an observed act is embedded, but also to the prior visual context and the observer's beliefs regarding the observed individual. Visual adaptation mechanisms may therefore operate during our everyday perception, in order to adjust our visual system to allow for efficient and accurate judgement of socially meaningful stimuli. The findings presented in this thesis highlight the importance of studying social perception using naturalistic stimuli embedded in a meaningful social scene, in order to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms that underlie our judgement of behaviour of other people. They also demonstrate the utility of visual adaptation paradigms in studying social perception and social cognition.
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Hull
- Supervisor
- Barraclough, Nick; Jellema, Tjeerd
- Qualification level
- Doctoral
- Qualification name
- PhD
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- English
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Because Haydn could not attend the premiere of his 1768 cantata Applausus, he wrote a detailed letter covering many details of how it should be performed. This unique document has served as instruction for all Haydn performances, and those of other 18th-century works. All well and good, but the letter has diverted attention from the work itself. Composed to celebrate a monk's 70th birthday, it is a happy, upbeat piece despite its Latin text. In the words of H. C. Robbins Landon, "the music is fully up to date, with echoes of the composer's symphonies and operas, though the widespread use of da capo structures checks the natural impetus of the music."...The four Cardinal Virtues (Temperance, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude) sing of the joys of life at the monastery, in consultation with the church, in the person of Theology. They are accompanied by an orchestra of strings, oboe, bassoon, two horns, trumpet, and timpani, with harpsichord obbligato. The basic format is recitative and aria; included are a duet, quartet, and final chorus, sung by the five soloists (an earlier recording used a chorus, although the score does not call for one). Many of the recitatives are also fully accompanied, adding to the fun.
My first exposure to Applausus was at Tanglewood in 1964, by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf (of which there also seems to be a pirate recording); it was less than an hour long, but I didn't know it well enough to decide how it got that way—missing arias or reduced da capos. There have been at least three commercial recordings, one of which (on Koch) I have not heard. A 1991 modern-instrument recording led by Patrick Fournillier on Opus 111 was consistent and reliable, but this period-instrument performance is its superior in energy and fire. Vocal soloists are satisfactory in both cases, the basses on these discs standing head and shoulders above all others. The gorgeous final chorus makes a greater impact with Spering's five soloists, firmly anchored by those basses, than with Fournillier's distantly recorded chorus...Capriccio supplies texts in Latin and German only
When the abbot of the northern Austrian monastery of Zwettl reached the 50th anniversary of his taking of the vows, his Cistercian brothers gave him a set of tableware and this cantata of homage commissioned from the great Franz Joseph Haydn. The Latin text to this Applausus, as such musical acknowledgements of major accomplishments were called, was probably written by one of the abbey priests. Each of the five soloists is one of the virtues said to characterize the abbot's highly evolved soul: Temperantia, Prudentia, Justitia, Fortitudo, and Theologia. Capriccio offers German translations of these odes to temperance, prudence, justice, fortitude and religion, but nothing in English...True, [Haydn] did supply his patrons with 100 minutes of bright, perky fare, with plenty of coloratura to boot. (Here's hoping that at least five of the good citizens of Zwettl or thereabouts could warble at high speed.) Haydn kept it all coming too, with some of the da capo arias lasting as long as 15 minutes...The best aria by far is the shortest: a delightful 'Si Obtrudat Ultimam' for Fortitudo (one of the baritones) who tips his cap to Messiah's 'For He Is Like a Refiner's Fire' every time he launches into a phrase. Justitia the tenor is awarded the two longest arias; 'O Pii Patres Patriae', a florid, stately 15-minute air that encloses a mini-concerto for the harpsichord, and 'O Beatus Incolatus', another 15-minute interlude that adds an obbligato violin to the mix. Part I also boasts a fizzy charmer for soprano and mezzo, as Temperance and Prudence join forces for 'Dictamina Mea Doceri Qui Gestit'...The playing has brio to spare, while each of the five voices sparkles with youthful charm. Within minutes of the orchestral opening to the first recitative, I was googling to see whether Andreas Spering has recorded any Haydn symphonies with this orchestra. I didn't see any, but if he ever does, I'm buying.
Haydn's rarely heard cantata offers applause for an Abbot's celebration
A token of Haydn's rapidly growing fame in the late 1760s was a prestigious commission from the Cistercian monastery of Zwettl for a Latin congratulatory cantata to celebrate the Abbot's golden jubilee. In the tradition of applausus works—then a popular genre in Austrian monasteries—the text hymns the joys of the monastic life in a discourse between the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Prudence, Justice and Fortitude), plus the sobering figure of Theology. Typically, too, Biblical and Hellenic imagery commingle. As the monks would have expected, the music's forms and idiom are essentially those of mid-18th-century opera seria. Gargantuan da capo arias hold sway, with just three ensembles—a quartet, a duet and a final coro—for variety.
The recipe is hardly a promising one for modern ears; and only the most partisan would claim Applausus as great Haydn. Several numbers lapse into elegantly anonymous note-spinning, not least the tenor aria with violin obbligato, with its meandering chains of thirds and sixths over harmonically static accompaniments. But there are many memorable things, including a whooping aria for Theology—a reminder of Haydn's magnificently ingenuous remark that whenever he thought of God his heart leapt for joy—a D minor number for Fortitude in Haydn's most turbulent Sturm und Drang vein, and an eloquent aria for Temperance, warmly coloured by a concertante bassoon part.
This new recording, recorded at concerts in Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl, scores decisively over its sole predecessor, directed by Patrick Fournillier (Opus 111, 4/93—nla). Andreas Spering's familiar penchant for mobile, springy tempi pays particular dividends in moderato movements such as the quartet and the duet, where Fournillier's more easy-going approach fails to mitigate the music's potential long-windedness. The period instruments of Capella Augustina play with that much more colour and imagination than Fournillier's modern-instrument band (a word, too, for the excellent unnamed harpsichordist in the florid solo of Justice's first aria). Most crucially, Spering fields a finer, more stylistically assured team of soloists. Donát Havár, a pleasing lyrical tenor, copes gracefully with Haydn's roulades in his two arias, while soprano Anna Palimina's crystalline tone and shapely phrasing make Temperance's aria a highlight of the whole performance. The acoustic is more resonant than I find ideal, though I soon adjusted. While Applausus is always likely to remain on the margins, there are musical rewards here for Haydn aficionados with the patience to sit through the work's intermittent longueurs.


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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are a fact of medical practice and will remain a central delivery mechanism for healthcare in the future. Galvanized by Affordable Care Act, the numbers and sizes of ACOs are growing. They will generate myriad disputes that require resolution quickly, less expensively, confidentially, expertly, and as amicably as possible given the ongoing business and professional relationships involved.
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Navy apologizes for phallic skywriting
The Navy has launched an investigation into the jet that sky-painted a giant penis over western Washington on Thursday.
"The actions of this air crew were wholly unacceptable. These actions were irresponsible, inexcusable, immature and antithetical to the core values of naval aviation and the Navy," said Cmdr. Ron Flanders, spokesman of the North Island-based Naval Air Forces.
Authorities have not named the crew of the EA-18G Growler crafting the phallic contrails, but Flanders indicated that the pilot was a lieutenant assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 130, the "Zappers" out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.
Although the two-seater aircraft often includes a naval flight officer tasked with suppressing enemy radar and communications, the Navy has not said whether two sailors were involved in the incident or just the pilot, who has been grounded.
The Navy's "Air Boss," Vice Adm. Mike "Shoe" Shoemaker in Coronado, and Adm. John Richardson, the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon, have been briefed on the controversy, Flanders said.
Flanders apologized "to anyone who was offended by this" and said any aviators or ground crew found to have engaged in wrongdoing by investigators will be held accountable.
"The American people rightfully expect that those who wear the Wings of Gold exhibit a level of maturity commensurate with the missions and aircraft with which they've been entrusted," said Shoemaker in a message sent out by Naval Air Forces on social media. "Sophomoric and immature antics of a sexual nature have no place in Naval aviation today. We will investigate this incident to get all the facts and act accordingly. This event clearly stands in stark contrast to the way our aviators and sailors are performing with utmost professionalism, discipline and excellence from our carrier flight decks and expeditionary airfields around the world today."
VAQ-130 returned to Whidbey Island in December, following a seven-month tour aboard the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower that included air operations over Iraq.
Typically, the Navy will convene a special board to determine the fates of aviators involved in aerial tomfoolery.
A Field Naval Aviator Evaluation Board — pronounced "fee-nab" in the Navy — is an administrative panel designed to evaluate the performance, motivation and future potential for uniformed aviators. Often convened at the wing level, these boards can end the careers of naval pilots and flight officers.
Neither the U.S. Pacific Fleet's Electronic Attack Wing at Whidbey Island nor Carrier Air Wing 3 in Virginia has announced the convening of a board, however, and the decisions often are secret.
The latest incident recalls the massive phallus discovered in early 2014 painted on a trailer at the Blue Angels winter training grounds at Naval Air Facility El Centro. The image was so large, it could be photographed by satellites in space.
Capt. Gregory "Stiffy" McWherter, who commanded the Navy's aerial acrobatic team in two tours between 2008 and 2012, was fired as the executive officer of Naval Base Coronado and later received a punitive letter of reprimand that ended his career.
Investigators found that the Blue Angels during McWherter's second tour beginning in 2011 operated more like a boozy frat house than an elite jet squadron, saying they "openly engaged in sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior."
That included peppering their jokes with homophobia, papering their cockpits with pornography and hazing junior enlisted sailors during the "cresting process" of their orientation to the team, according to a disciplinary report released in 2014.
While the misconduct began as "juvenile and sophomoric" high jinks, it degenerated into a "destructive, toxic and hostile" workplace, investigators found.
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Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don't Know How It Works
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Depressed woman on sick leave loses insurance over cheerful Facebook photos
She was partying on doctor's orders.
25 September 2009
French parliament suggesting warning labels on manipulated images used in advertising
…in order to combat body image issues.
27 August 2009
A six-year-old girl's battle against schizophrenia
""Is the Moban working?" her mother asks Jani during a visit. "No. I have more friends.""
See also: her father's blog.
11 August 2009
Study: Schizophrenia patients show increased violent tendencies mainly when substance abuse is involved
See also: Scientist's home page.
Finnish readers may be interested in Tiede magazine's news item, which links to previous articles discussing recent school shootings and their relation to mental disorder among the perpetrators.
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
"Brain Rules by [developmental molecular biologist] John J. Medina is a multimedia project explaining how the brain works. It includes a book, a feature-length documentary film, and a series of interactive tutorials."
Non-suck Xmas gift or back to school demotivator. The book has a very polite and constructive way of saying that our society is insane and should be considered harmful.
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- "My friend's got a bag full of explosives. Let's use them."
- ―Solo concocts a plan to help destroy Starkiller Base with the pyro denton explosives
Pyro denton explosives, usually referred to as just dentons, were a model of explosive charge which played a pivotal role in the Resistance's success in destroying the First Order's Starkiller Base superweapon around thirty years after the Battle of Endor. The First Order deserter Finn packed them on board the Millennium Falcon, a YT-1300 light freighter captained by Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca, while it was at the Resistance base on the planet D'Qar. After the three traveled to Starkiller Base and completed their objectives there, Solo then suggested they use the explosive to help damage the base's thermal oscillator, as the Resistance's aerial forces were having trouble doing so. Solo and Chewbacca managed to set the charges inside the oscillator, but during the process Solo was killed by his son Kylo Ren, leaving Chewbacca to detonate the devices and punch a hole in the oscillator large enough for Resistance pilot Poe Dameron to fly in and destroy it, leading to the destruction of the entire base.
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- "Finn, be careful with those. They're explosives."
"Now you tell me?"
- ―Solo warns Finn about the pyro denton explosives he is packing
Pyro denton explosives[3] were a type of spherical model of explosive charge[3] which were sometimes referred to as just dentons.[4] They could be stuck to shear surfaces and would show red lights when activated.[1] The could be programmed to detonate on command from a remote detonator.[4] The charges were heavy enough that carrying a full satchel of them took the full strength of a Wookiee.[3]
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- "We'll set the charges against every other column."
- ―Solo directs Chewbacca as they set the explosives within the oscillator
Around thirty years after the Battle of Endor, the First Order deserter Finn packed a case of pyro denton explosives onto the YT-1300 light freighter known as the Millennium Falcon at the Resistance base on the planet D'Qar in preparation for a mission to destroy the First Order's Starkiller Base superweapon. He was not aware of what it was he was packing until Han Solo, captain of the Falcon warned him to be careful with the explosives. Upon reaching Starkiller base, Solo's co-pilot Chewbacca brought the pyro denton explosives with him around the base in a bag, in case they were needed. After Solo, Finn and Chewbacca disabled the base's shields and located their friend Rey, Solo realised that the other Resistance forces attacking the base would need more support, and suggested that they use the explosives to damage the superweapon's thermal oscillator. The group split up, with Finn and Rey leaving to find a way to give Solo and Chewbacca access to the oscillator.[1]
Once they had managed to open the doors, the two pilots rushed inside and headed in different directions to place the explosives on each support column around the inside of the oscillator. Solo gave Chewbacca the detonator, but as the captain was placing his portion of the explosives, he recognized his son, Kylo Ren, who had betrayed his family and joined the First Order, on the oscillator's central walkway. Solo attempted to persuade Ren that he should return with him to the Resistance, but Ren could not be persuaded, and killed his father. In rage at his friends death, Chewbacca shot Ren and then activated the explosives, fleeing as large hole was blown in the side of the oscillator. This allowed Poe Dameron, one of the Resistance's pilots, to fly into the oscillator and destroy it using his T-70 X-wing starfighter Black One. With the oscillator destroyed, Starkiller Base soon followed suit and exploded as forces from both sides of the battle retreated to safety.[1]
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Pyro denton explosives first appeared in the film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which was released in 2015. Despite playing an important role in the film, the explosives were not named, only being fully identified in the reference book Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary, which was written by Pablo Hidalgo and released in conjunction with the film. The explosives were also mentioned in the various adaptations of the film including the films novelisation by Alan Dean Foster and Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel by Michael Kogge, which included additional dialogue concerning the explosives not included in the film. In both novelisations, Solo explains to Finn that he did not inform him that he was packing explosives because he did not want to scare him. Later, Solo and Chewbacca decide they do not have enough denton explosives to place one on every support column in the oscillator and instead place all of them on the single nearest column. As these scenes contradict the film, this article assumes that the film is correct and these interpretations are not canon.
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- "True Love"
- Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (First appearance)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel
- The Force Awakens: Rey's Story
- The Force Awakens storybook
- The Force Awakens Read-Along Storybook and CD
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation
- The Force Awakens Adaptation 5
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary (First identified as pyro denton explosive)
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z


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12th January 2016 – New Signings
The club added to the squad last night signing forward Stevie Kane and defender Dan Napier. Stevie was previously part of the Newmains side which has started the season so well while Dan returns to the club after several years at Carluke. We welcome both to the club and hope that their time at Kingshill will be a successful one.


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In society today, knowing your purpose of life and what you should live for has become the major criteria for measuring how happy your life is. There is a lot of pressure to know your purpose in life, becuase if you don't know, then the chances of you living a fulfiling and happy life are nil.
This is absolute rubbish.
Ralph Emerson's states in his quote that our purpose in life has nothing to do with happiness but more to do with how well we lived our lives.
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
That is the secret recipe to living a happy and fulfilling life.
A Story About My Friend John
My best friend John suddenly passed away a few weeks ago. John was a person who lived a purposeful life that was centred on his commitment and love for his family and serving others.
John did not seek out his purpose in life. He didn't read personal development books on how to find your life purpose and he never asked the question "what should I live for?" He just knew what gave him joy and that was to serve his family and the people who were in his life.
John was that person that Ralph Emerson was referring to in his quote: a man who showed compassion and kindness and who lived a full life with purpose and commitment.
John was not a famous man who had achieved world recognition for his amazing feats. He was my long-time friend, a truly great man who to me lived his life purpose to the fullest.
Not all of us are like John who just knew what his purpose in life was and then just did it. Some of us need guidance as to how we can start this journey…
3 Steps To Finding Your Life Purpose
Here are 3 very simple steps that if you follow will help you to attain purpose and fulfilment in life.
1. Disconnect from Social Media
With social media, we are relentlessly exposed to thousands of people who present a life where they seem to be living incredibly fulfilled and successful lives with purpose.
It seems to be for many people that figuring out your life purpose today is complicated and a drawn out process that can take forever. This is in fact not true at all.
On social media, you only see the fabulous and fun parts of peoples lives, you do not see their true life that can be as challenging and as complicated as yours. No one escapes the realities of life – those life curveballs that come from nowhere.
If you are comparing your quality of life and your happiness with those people on social media, then you need to stop. You need to find your own measures of success as to what a fulfilled happy life means to you.
Social Media will not give you what you are seeking when it comes to finding what it is that will bring joy to your life.
When you are consistently experiencing joy in your life, you are living a purposeful life. You know what the kind of life you want to live that is important to you. Using other peoples experiences of joy on social media is not best way for you to determine your life purpose.
2. Ask These 3 Key Questions to Define Your Life Purpose
To start your journey to figuring out your purpose in life ask yourself these 3 key questions:
- What is the legacy that I want to leave behind?
- What will people say about me when I have gone?
- What difference have I made to other peoples lives?
The answers to these 3 questions will help you determine your purpose in life.
Once you have defined these answers, the next step is for you is to take action and consistently demonstrate those qualities you believe are important for you to attain living a life with purpose and joy.
3. Focus on the Specific Actions That Bring You Joy
"You do not write your life with words. . . You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do" — Patrick Ness
Discovering your purpose in life and what you should live for is the same for everyone in the world – rich or poor. Everyone has the opportunity to live life to the fullest. It is not complex, difficult or out of your reach.
Finding your life purpose is very achievable. All you have to do is decide what it is that living a fulfilled happy life means to you and then you go do it. Go and be kind to others and live your life the best way you can every day.
Acts of kindness, generosity, gratitude and love are the core actions of living a life with purpose. If you focus on these actions on a daily basis, you will be living your life with purpose. It is at this point that the feelings of happiness fill your life.
The more you do for others, the more happy you will be.
A Word of Warning
When you are living your life with purpose, it does not mean that you will transform into living the life of an angel.
Remember your reality – you will still have your faults, make huge mistakes, fail and have to navigate your way through the challenges that life throws at you.
However, living a life with purpose and commitment builds your resilience and enables you to deal with life challenges from a place of strength and certainty.
Your power of choice is the only thing that you have that enables you to live a life with purpose and joy. My friend John knew how to use his power of choice to the fullest. He chose to live a life with purpose and he knew what he had to do to bring joy into his life and to those people he loved – a very simple recipe to living life to the fullest.
The journey to knowing your life purpose and living your life purpose is within your reach. You are the only person who can do it and you have control over how you want to live your life.
Remember that nobody else does – it is all down to you. I suggest that you go do it now!
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Texas Jack Schofield No. 3 Nickel CO2 BB revolver
Based on an original hand engraved S&W American attributed to the legendary frontier scout and showman, Texas Jack Omohundro, this very special, limited edition Schofield .177 caliber model has been created by the master engravers at Adams & Adams using a Nimschke vine scroll pattern and punch dot background similar to the S&W presented by Texas Jack to the Earl of Dunraven in 1874.
As the story goes, the adventurous Irish Lord was Texas Jacks most enthusiastic hunting patron and in 1874, on their third hunt together on the American Frontier, it was decided that since Texas Jack had an S&W American, the Earl should have one as well. The gun was handsomely engraved in the elegant New York style employed by craftsmen such as L.D. Nimschke, nickel plated and fitted with ivory stocks. A Southerner, Omohundro had a distinguished Civil War record serving under Generals Fitzhugh Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. After the war he became a scout and befriended such western legends as Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody, who he first met in 1871 when he hired on as a scout with a hunting party that included the Earl of Dunraven. Omohundro and Cody became fast friends and when Cody started his first Wild West performance in theaters, Texas Jack became a key player in the early troupe. He left the show in 1876 to write and perform on his own, along with his Italian born wife Giuseppina. Texas Jack died in Leadville, Colorado, in 1880, at the young age of 34. His role in the American West, his friendships with Cody, Ned Buntline, and Buffalo Bill, among others, made his name legendary.
The Adams & Adams hand engraved nickel plated .177 caliber Schofield has the engraving inked in for fine detail and will be limited to just 100 examples.
|.177" (4.5mm)
|Max Velocity
|445 fps
|Barrel Length
|Overall Length
|Shot Capacity
|Smooth bore
|Front Sight
|Rear Sight
|Suggested for
|Trigger Action
|Max Shots per Fill
|Full metal
|Body Type
|Fixed/adj. power
|2.4 lbs
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Things I liked: Engraving is outstanding with beveled edges and no copper base cote exposed that I can see. White grips actually have what looks like a bears head and 1877 is on the left side molded into them.
Things I would have changed: Pistol is very well made with nothing loose or wobbly, grips are precision fit and tight. Nickel finish is perfect. Nothing to change.
What others should know: And now for the disappointing items. There is no black inking to enhance the engraving as described in the description. The pictures of this pistol are very deceiving. There is nothing extra blacked out, it's just the same as the plain nickel version. The most disappointing thing is that a majority of the displayed engraving is missing. There is nothing covering up all the Warning print behind the cylinder on the right frame side like in the pictures. Just some engraving in the open areas around it. Not bad but definitely not as pictured and I feel cheated out of a large amount of engraving, as on the left side, that truly would have enhanced the pistol a lot more. I will send a picture in for display above. I have not fired it yet.
|By Jim from USA on 2018-09-20
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PA or the manufacturer need to come up with appropriate packaging before I shell out $550.
It comes in a Plano Gun Gard SE plastic lockable pistol case.
Anyone believe Pyramdair will actually slip a $550 engraved masterpiece back into a "destroy to open" blister pack?? There is no mention of any special box of any kind. (At least the Colts come in their standard printed box for $350) A used blister pack would be a crime! One can only hope PA steps up!
|.177" (4.5mm)
|Max Velocity
|445 fps
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Just to clarify, the graph for a first order ln[X] vs time and zero order [X] vs time reaction is a decreasing linear slope. For second order it is an increasing linear slope. Right? So when would they be the increasing and decreasing exponential graphs?
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Here is a diagram that you might find helpful:
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I think that you should always get a linear plot for 0,1,and 2 order reactions!
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you should always have a linear graph based on the order of the reaction.
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first, second, and zero order reactions have linear plots
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All of the graphs for the ordered reactions should have linear plots. It just depends on what is on the axis that determines what is the order of the reaction.
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All the graphs will be linear however, the K sign for the slope will be different. Zero and first order graphs will have a negative slope while a second order graph will have a positive K slope.
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all graphs are linear but the slopes and axis vary
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To my understanding and looking at the textbook first order reactions will have a negative (-) slope, second-order reactions will have a positive (+) slope, and zero order reactions will have a negative (-) slope. This is due to the value of k either being positive or negative which affect the slope of the graph. Hope this helps.
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Hearings Leave Questions Over Skills-Training Issues
Job-training policymakers in the Education and Labor departments were left with daunting issues to tackle following a series of regional hearings that revealed broad support for a system of occupational-skill standards for work-bound youths.
Despite the general support reported across the country at the hearings to launch the school-to-work component of President Bush's America 2000 education plan, the sessions also spotlight some nagging issues that federal officials have yet to resolve.
"We're sitting back and looking at a stack of papers and saying, 'Where do we go from here?' '' said Betsy Brand, the Education Department's assistant secretary for vocational and adult education.
Some of the questions vexing staff members in Ms. Brand's office and the Labor Department's employment and training administration include: Whether vocational programs should focus more heavily on education or training; how the new standards will dovetail with similar education and labor efforts; and, perhaps most challenging, how to identify industries with similar skill needs.
Blurring Distinctions
Education groups in particular were quick to point out that those involved in the standards effort have yet to indicate whether schools should bolster basic-education programs or make job-oriented training more rigorous.
"The background information in the Federal Register announcing these hearings had a disturbing tendency to blur the differences between training and education,'' testified Bruce Leslie, the president of Onondaga (N.Y.) Community College, on behalf of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges.
"Significant skill changes usually require a strong education base. If we are to seek skill standards, the educational component must be exactly defined,'' he said.
Bret Lovejoy, the American Vocational Association's assistant executive director for government relations, added that it is important that federal officials recommend roles for educators.
"The Department of Labor needs to hear about how this will affect teachers and students,'' Mr. Lovejoy said. "We're interested to know if the Administration is going to be willing to make the investment in teacher training so that these standards can be taught.''
Further, officials of the Education and Labor department must determine how the America 2000 skill requirements complement the skill competencies recently recommended by the Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, as well as provisions in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act that have vocational educators working to set program-performance standards by the fall.
"We have to make sure we do the right things and don't become too intrusive,'' said Ms. Brand, noting that officials will make efforts to include the SCANS skills in the new skills standards.
She added, however, that direct ties to the new Perkins Act requirements are not a great concern.
"Those should be less industry-specific and more program-oriented,'' she said. "Maybe over time they will get closer and the skill standards could be used as a program measure.''
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For now, officials said their main challenge will be to identify jobs that have similar skill demands and to create consensus on the industrial categories that will drive the standards program.
Mr. Leslie, the community-college president, explained the difficulty of such an exercise. "Defining an industry will lead to the discovery of many discrete occupational families nesting within a single industry,'' he said. "If we aren't careful, things could be made worse.''
Ms. Brand acknowledged the complexity of the task, but said the hearings had identified innovative examples that should inform the federal effort.
"There is a lot of interesting work being done around the country by companies, labor unions, states, and local agencies,'' she said. "We will be able to draw on a lot of that material.''
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Many bloggers and authors have defined the role of Marketing as "getting the right product to the right market at the right time."[i] In this context the right product includes the features/functions/benefits that the target market wants, at a price that fits market expectations as well as the seller's goals.
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Air transportation from New York to Los Angeles is a different market. One can fly by commercial airline, and within that segment by First, Business, or Economy class. Additionally, ticket pricing allows a buyer to choose time of week and time of day for potentially lowest fare, not to mention when the buyer purchases his ticket.
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US Military Apologizes for Offending Afghan Muslims. Again.
The US military apparently conducted a leaflet drop in Afghanistan recently that offended just about everyone:
The leaflets dropped Monday night, which encouraged Afghans to cooperate with security forces, included an image of a dog carrying the Taliban flag, said Shah Wali Shahid, the deputy governor of Parwan province.
The problem, such that it is, is the Islamic verses of the Quran are venerated in Islam — and there are Islamic verses on the Taliban flag. Dogs are viewed as filthy.
So, despite the evil the Taliban represents, seeing a Taliban flag in the mouth of a dog is worse.
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A 69-YEAR-OLD Monto man and his two middle-aged sons, who were at the centre of Queensland's largest weapons seizure, will spend Christmas at home.
Dressed in jeans, western-style work shirts and carrying their Akubra hats in their hands, Rodney Donald Collard, Donald Frederick Collard and Stephen Noel Collard made a brief appearance in the Biloela Magistrates Court on Wednesday, charged with unlawful possession of 10 or more weapons, with at least five being classified weapons.
Police find huge stash of firearms, four tonnes of ammo
Police prosecutor Nina Sulzer said the crown was waiting on ballistics testing to be completed in Brisbane and asked for the matter to be adjourned.
Magistrate Barry Cosgrove adjourned the matter for mention in Biloela's Magistrates Court on March 26 and released the Collards on bail.
The three men were charged with weapons' offences after more than 328 high-powered military grade weapons and 4.2 tonnes of ammunition were uncovered during a massive police search operation at their Monto property on November 25.
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