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Head of School Update, Feb. 27

Welcome Back Everyone,

No urgent news to report from SCIS. But I just wanted to welcome everyone back from what I hope was a restful Chinese New Year break.

We are back in the swing of things at school, Below, you will find a few photos from around the campus the last few days.

I’m sure the Grade 12 students are back with a purpose as they prepare for their IB Mock Exams (Practice Exams) starting next week. We wish them the best of luck!

Derek Luebbe

Head of School Update, Feb. 14

Happy Chinese New Year

It was a busy and memorable day at SCIS.

A big thank you to all the parents who attended our assembly and Lower School Temple Fair – and especially those parents who donated their time and energy to running a station. The Temple Fair was such a big success for the Lower School students, filled with hands-on learning.

This week has seen a celebration of Brazilian Carnival and Chinese New Year. As a parent myself, I’m grateful for the diversity of SCIS – and the parents who take pride in sharing their culture – to give all of our students an exposure and experience that they would otherwise miss.

There is something special about any cultural celebration in a school with 45 nationalities. Today in our assembly, I shared with students that the first step of celebrating is appreciating. Living in China in the year 2018, attending SCIS, and experiencing a Chinese New Year celebration that is thousands of years old is a humbling experience. It makes you appreciate where you are in place and time.

Needless to say, the day was fantastic – and I want to share a special thank you to our Mandarin faculty who led the planning and preparation with students. All the fun is more than a little tiring!

I’m sure we are all ready for a short vacation; I know I am.

On behalf of the entire faculty, I hope your Chinese New Year vacation provides you with time to recharge and reconnect with family.

In the meantime, enjoy some photos from around the campus today.

Derek Luebbe
Head of School

Photos From Around the School

Our HS Girls showcase their dance routine.
Upper School Strings
The start of the Lion Dance
The assembly was led by many of our 5th Grade MCs. Great job to all!
SCIS students kick off the assembly with drums.
Upper School lunch activities
Ms. Scheiner “brushes” up on her calligraphy.
Sarah on the Chinese Yo Yo…
… and Ms. Shanks gives a try as well.

Unofficial champion on the chopsticks !
Our Lower School Temple Fair featured activities for students…
…and parents.
Behind the scenes of shadow puppets. Who knew they were laughing back there the whole time?
The Temple Fair featured some Chinese hackysack
The morning started with a showcase of the Olympics. (Canada won the curling!)
All that action can certainly be tiring!

Enjoy a restful vacation everyone!

Head of School Update, February 13

Health Notice

Dear Parents,

I am writing to inform you of a health and safety issue.  This morning, I was alerted to the fact an individual was working at the school yesterday fell ill, left school, and was diagnosed last night with the H1N1 (Swine Flu).  The employee was in contact with the ECE floor/children. We have taken a number of preventative measures, outlined below. But because the H1N1 Flu is contagious, we wish to notify everyone of this event.

Our entire staff, and especially our nurse, are diligent in monitoring the situation. Thus far, there have been no student cases identified.   While no students have been affected, it is important to be aware of the symptoms and the steps that SCIS is taking.

  • SCIS has initiated our emergency cleaning protocols:
    • More frequent cleaning of “High Contact Surfaces” (door handles, toilets, soap dispensers, toys, etc.) during school hours
    • Increased ventilation procedures (this is the intake of outside air into our building which now takes place nightly)
    • Increased cleaning procedures by the transportation and cafeteria providers
  • What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
    The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with the flu with respiratory symptoms but without a fever. A more detailed description of the H1N1 Flu is described at the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm
  • Our nurse performed a temperature check on every ECE child this morning. She will continue to be a resource for students who are not feeling well. She will contact parents if a child has a fever or feels nauseated.  If a child is feeling ill, please have the child stay at home.
  • We have asked faculty to continue to reiterate healthy habits (covering mouths when coughing/sneezing, hands/fingers/toys/pencils out of our mouths, etc.) and be additionally diligent on the frequency and quality of hand washing routines.  We ask parents to do the same.
  • We will continue to monitor the situation and ask parents to do the same.

Thankfully, we do not see any examples of this sickness taking place at SCIS. Nevertheless, I wanted to share it with all of you to simply raise awareness.

Please keep yourselves healthy. Eat well, drink lots of water, and stay active in your own healthy habit routines.

Derek Luebbe
Head of School, SCIS Pudong

Special Dress Day: February 14

To celebrate CNY, tomorrow is special dress day. Students can wear red to help celebrate. Jeans or khakis are fine.

Today at the Pudong Campus

We had some great experiences for students today, the sharing the diversity of our international school.

In preparation for tomorrow’s Chinese New Year Celebration, our Upper School students benefited from the expertise of professionals who shared the crafts of Chinese Yo Yo and Kung-Fu with our students. As a reminder, our All-School Assembly is scheduled for tomorrow at 1:00 pm. Parents are invited. Starting at 1:30, Lower School students and parents will take part in our CNY Temple Fair located in the Black Box.

Also pictured below some fantastic photos from our fantastic parents from the Brazillian community. These parents, along with some Brazillian dancers, worked with and performed for all of our students to celebrate Brazil’s Carnival!  They were assisted by the Upper School band, and brought some lively festivities to our afternoon.

It was a great afternoon to be an SCIS Dragon!  Thank you parents.

Middle Schoolers try their luck with Chinese Yo-Yo
Here’s the start…
… and here’s the finish
Kung Fu
Balance is the key
Carnival Festivities!
Our Brazillian dancers working with our Lower School students.
Dancers in action.
Our Upper School band in action with some swing music.
Learning to samba

Head of School Update, February 9

Dear Parents,

As you may have read in my earlier post, we are celebrating Chinese New Year on Wednesday Feb. 14. Additionally, we have changed the date for our International Food Fair to Sunday March 18. Details of both events are shared in the most recent post.

Hoping you enjoy some of the action photos from around campus this week. Enjoy your weekend.

Derek Luebbe,
Head of School, SCIS Pudong

Photos From Around the Campus

MS Girls Volleyball Action on Thursday vs. Dulwich.
Students sharing their work  and their thinking is what makes them authors – and what makes it a celebration.
Mr. Schultz learns how to make cookies.
It was a fantastic parent turn-out in Ms. McCabe’s class. We are lucky to be an environment where 1) parents get involved, 2) our students get to share their successes with all parents – not just their own!
Badminton in the Gym
Badminton In The Gym ???
Upper School Students Practice Their Dumpling-Making Skills

Head of School Update, February 8

Dear Parents,

As we prepare for the upcoming Chinese New Year Break, I wish to share some important information about upcoming activities.

Chinese New Year Celebrations: March 14

As you know, Chinese New Year is right around the corner. Our big celebration day will be Wednesday, February 14. This will be  free dress day, and we encourage students to wear red to celebrate.  Our activities this year have changed from previous years. Instead of a long assembly for the entire school, we have shorted the assembly to run from 1:00-1:30 pm. Following the assembly, Lower School students will be involved in our first-ever Temple Fair from 1:30-2:30. The Temple Fair allows our Lower School students to have a hands-on experience participating in a host of cultural activities led by our parents and outside presenters.   Our Upper School students have already begun some of these special presentations in their classes (see the photos below) and these activities will continue next week. From a parent’s perspective, all parents are invited to attend the day, but Upper School parents should be aware that the assembly will not be as long as in previous years due to the change. I know that Lower School Liz Gale will be sending home more detailed information to Lower School parents tomorrow.

Change of Date: International Food Festival Now March 18

In an attempt to encourage participation by avoiding a few other school activities, we have moved our SCIS International Food Festival to Sunday, March 18 from 11:30 am-3:00 pm. (It was previously scheduled on March 17.) To encourage your participation, the school will be providing free bussing to this event from a few pick-up points around the city.

This will be a fun-filled day for families with food, drink, booths, games, and entertainment. Most importantly, it’s a great way for us to celebrate the diversity represented at SCIS. We encourage families from each country to come together to set up a table to share special food and perhaps some quick games, facts, or  special elements that make your ‘home’ special.

We will be sharing more information after the Chinese New Year, but for now, download the flier below and save the new date!

Food Festival and Open House

We will also be hosting an Open House to coincide with the International Food Festival. So if you would like to invite a non-SCIS family to join in the celebration, please contact Laurie Luebbe at lluebbe@scis-china.org to reserve a spot.

Some Photos From Around Campus

The Upper School students engage some Chinese Culture with the help of some visiting specialists in preparation for Chinese New Year.

Chinese Calligraphy
Dumpling making
The finished product.
MaiTian starts Thursday off right – with a bagel sale! It was such a hit that we had to revive our fast-food service skills to ensure we got through the hungry customers in time!

February 2, Head of School Update

Dear Parents, Students, and Friends,

Things are back in swing in 2018!

A few new students continue to trickle into campus, making 39 new students who have joined SCIS in January. I want to officially welcome all the new families and students to the SCIS Community. It marks the largest growth in six years, which is always a good sign that Shanghai is on the up-swing! Our enrollment continues to grow, and we are now at 360 students.

Enjoy the articles below and your weekend ahead!

Derek Luebbe
Head of School, SCIS Pudong

A Growing, and Well-Connected Community

As we all know, transitioning into a new school can be a stressful and confusing time. I’m really proud of our existing students, they seem to intuitively know it’s tough being new, and it’s always reassuring to see them help integrate new students. New families should be aware of the wealth of resources we have to help support the transition. If your child does have anxiety or is having any trouble making connections, please reach out to either of the SCIS counselors: Laurie Luebbe (lluebbe@scis-china.org) in the Lower School or Maja Kelly (mkelly@scis-china.org) in the Upper School.

As a new family, we want to do our best to connect you with our existing school networks as easily as possible. Each Lower School classroom has a SeeSaw group, to stay updated. There are a number of WeChat groups in the school, some sorted by groupings (grade level or whole-school) and some groups share information in a preferred language. However you wish to connect, we hope we have a mechanism to do so.

All of this is truly supported by our Parents and Friends Association (PAFA). We encourage all families to stay actively involved in PAFA. You can reach out to PAFA President Trish Castillo to discover more ways you can help contribute to building a great experience for our students.  You can view the most recent PAFA post on our school’s website. Be sure to check out all that is happening, and pay particular attention to two big events in the near future.

  • Wednesday, February 14: Chinese New Year Assembly Celebration and Temple Fair
  • Saturday, March 17:  International Day Festival at SCIS Pudong

Chinese New Year, Parent Wanted!

This year we will celebrate the Chinese New Year with even more gusto! We invite all parents to our whole-school assembly on Wednesday, February 14. In the days leading up to the 14th our Upper School Mandarin teachers, behind the planning of Ms. Daisy Mi, have arranged for special in-class presentations in class on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Our Lower School Mandarin Team has arranged a Temple Fair to take place downstairs, where students will have the option of experiencing many different Chinese Cultural activities. The Temple Fair is a fun, hands-on way our students get to experience Chinese Culture. All parents are invited. Parents of students in grades PK-KG can come to accompany their child or a small group as they go from station to station. We are also very grateful to the approximately 20 parents who have volunteered to run stations for the students. We still need a few more. If you are able to donate your time, we would love to have you help. Contact Mandarin teacher Olive Sun at osun@scis-china.org to learn more and help out. The more parental involvement, the more opportunities we are able to give our students!

SCIS Competes at the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Robotics Tournament

A big congratulations to SCIS Robotics Team, led by Mr. Johnson,

SCIS Robotics Team, problem-solving in action

Mr. Johnson and the SCIS Robotics Team after the FLL Tournament

Students Reflect in the new SeeSaw Phone Booth

Lower School students and parents are well aware of the SeeSaw – our online student portfolio and communication platform to bridge the communication gap between school and home. The newest addition to our 1st Floor Hallway is the SeeSaw Phone Booth shown below. The phone booth is the brain child of Gr. 1 teacher Mr. Schultz. Seeing how much fun students were having reflecting on their work and sharing it with parents, he wanted to create a quiet, fun place where students could go to share their thinking.  Students bring their iPad into the phone booth, press record, and share their reflections about specific pieces of work. The reflections and student work are added to the student’s online portfolio – visible to teachers and  the child’s parents. And the SeeSaw Phone Booth provides just the environment!

Getting students to reflect on their learning is a vital piece of the learning process. “Why did I do this? What do I like about my work? What would I do differently next time? How did this work connect to other things that I’m learning about?”  These are the questions that drive learning, and the SeeSaw phone booth just makes that process a lot more fun for our students.

Reflections happening in the SeeSaw Phone Booth

Other Happenings Around Campus

Grade 5 Students partner with our Nursery Students as reading buddies.
Parents, teachers, and students sign the SCIS School Song at the Lower School Assembly on Thursday, led by the First Graders.
Grade 2 M students, inquiring, building, and reflecting in the classroom.

Head of School Update January 12

Hello Parents, Students, and Faculty,

Happy 2018!  We welcome approximately 35 new students to SCIS this January, the largest growth we’ve seen in six years.

My update will be brief, as I have been off campus during the first week of school attending a teacher recruiting conference in Bangkok. SCIS continues to be well-known within the international teaching community, and this is only strengthened by our addition of the MYP and PYP programs, making SCIS an attractive destinations for many top-quality teachers. I’ll provide a full recruiting update in the near future.

Wish our Varsity Boys and Girls Basketball Teams luck in their ACAMIS Tournament this weekend in Beijing.

The big news today (of course) is the early dismissal due to a power outage.  I am copying my note on the situation below. (It was also sent via email.)

I look forward to the 2nd semester and returning to activity of the SCIS hallways. On behalf of our entire staff, we thank you for the opportunity to work with and help shape your children.

Have a restful weekend.
Derek Luebbe

Dear Parents,

As you know, today we experienced a power failure and sent students home at 2:00 pm. With this email, I want to provide more information on the situation and remind everyone of the importance of our emergency contact information.

Power Outage and Dismissal

The power stopped working at approximately 11:30. This affected all of the power in some classrooms, our heating system and our plumbing/toilets. We immediately called the power company to investigate further. Power company representatives shared that the outage was due to neighborhood construction but were not optimistic that the power could be restored by 3:00 pm.

At approximately, 12:45, due to health and safety reasons, I made the decision to dismiss students at 2:00 pm. We began communicating with families shortly thereafter. When we have an unexpected dismissal, we work hard to ensure that each student can safely return home and a parent/guardian awaits for Lower School students. If a parent/guardian is not present to meet each Lower School student, our bus ayis are instructed to keep the student on the bus and continue on with the bus route. If our efforts to contact the parent are unsuccessful, then the child will return to the school by bus. We will then, continue to call parents until we are successful.

We will continue working with the power company over the weekend to restore power to the school. We feel confident that the situation will be solved this weekend and classes will continue on Monday. If we receive further information that could affect our operations on Monday, I will share that with all of you.

Emergency Contact Information

In cases of emergency, the school will do all it can realistically do to notify parents. Our formal method of communication in case of emergency is by phone or SMS text. Because this situation involved an early dismissal, we utilized multiple communication methods to ensure that parents were informed and children were not dropped off to a home without a parent/guardian present. This included:

  • Phone calls home
  • An SMS text message
  • SeeSaw grade level text messages for the Lower School
  • WeChat groups

As of 2:00 pm, we had already successfully personally communicated with over 95% of families.

Thankfully, this emergency was not a serious one. But it does allow us to test our systems and ensure that we have each family’s accurate contact information. I ask for your help in the following important steps.

  • Ensure that you received a text message (not WeChat or SeeSaw) emergency alert on your cell phone.
  • If you did not, contact your divisional school secretary with your updated contact information.

Lower School Secretary: Vicky Xu vxu@scis-china.org

Upper School Secretary: Jelly Ling jling@scis-china.org

Using a day like today as an important test will make sure that we are better prepared for a future emergency.

I wish each of you a relaxing weekend.   May your power stay on!

Derek Luebbe

Head of School

Update December 14

Dear Parents, Students, and Friends,

I wanted to share this blog a day early to ensure that parents know that tomorrow is a Green and Jeans Day!  Students are dismissed at 11:30.

The first semester has truly flown by. We are truly grateful for the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of your children.

Enjoy your long break and we will see you back in 2018!

Derek Luebbe
Head of School

Welcoming New Families

SCIS Pudong will welcome over 20 new students in January – the most in the last four years.  So, we want to make sure that all the new families are supported in joining the SCIS Community. This includes the opportunity to learn all about the details of living in a dynamic city like Shanghai !  We are putting together a new WeChat group for the new families. (It is optional for them to join.)  On the group, they can ask all the little questions that each of us had when we first moved to Shanghai. We are looking for a few of our current parents to join this WeChat group and support our new families in their transition by sharing information and helping to answer questions. If you are interested in helping out, email Laurie Luebbe at lluebbe@scis-china.org and she will add you to the group.  (Thank you!)

December 8 Update

Dear Parents, Students, and Friends,

Let me start by saying congratulations to all of our Lower School students for their performances today. It was a day to showcase the Performing Arts.

Our PK students (and parents!) started the day off right with an Art and Artists Gallery Walk. The PK artists shared their work and were able to explain what made it special to them. A big thank you to Ms. Aleksa and Ms. Emily who put so much time into preparing the Gallery Walk so that authentic learning could happen. And, a thank you to the parents and faculty who joined to appreciate and hear from our artists – making the experience an authentic expression of sharing.

Later in the day, three Lower School performances were shared to packed houses in the auditorium. The N/PS class performed an excited dance number followed the Grade PK-1 performance of the “The Mitten”. At 1:30 students in Grades 2-5 shared a lively “The Holly Jolly Pirates of Pinataville” for students and families.

These shows were live-streamed, so if you could not make the live performance, check it out online.

Pudong Winter Festival – Sunday, Dec. 10th 11:00am-3:00 pm

All families are welcome to join our SCIS Winter Festival with a German Market theme to celebrate the holidays.  Our PAFA have worked tirelessly to provide a festive winter environment – come out, relax, shop, and enjoy the SCIS community!

Dragon Cup Basketball – Saturday @ SCIS HQ

Good luck to our Boys and Girls Basketball teams as they are take part in the Dragon Cup on Saturday at Hongqiao Campus of SCIS. We always need more fans, so come out and support the Green Dragons!

Student Transitions

The life of an international school community is transient. The only thing stable is change. As we approach the end of the first semester, we know we will say goodbye to a few families and friends. If you are departing or if you know someone who is, please allow your children the time to say goodbye to classmates and teachers.   Sometimes, saying goodbye is not easy, but it is an important part of a healthy transition process.  If you are leaving, know that you will “always be a Dragon.”  You have left your mark on our SCIS community;  I hope you leave SCIS as a happier, healthier person knowing that SCIS has left a mark on you as well.

Part of the transition process is welcoming our new students – and there should be quite a few of them in January. We can all remember what it felt like to be the family or the new student.  Let’s do all we can to transition these newest members into the SCIS community.

Enjoy today’s photos and the rest of your weekend.

Derek Luebbe
Head of School

G2-5 Winter Concert 1
G2-5 Winter Concert 3
G2-5 Winter Concert 2

PK Art and Artists Learning Celebration set up (Thanks Ms. Aleksa and Ms. Emily!)

Ms. Gale adds to the fun

Lucas shares the day.

Frank and Cody and explore and explain.

PK-G1 Winter Concert

Winter Festival Busing, Broadway Live Deadline

Good morning everyone,

Winter Festival Transportation

Just a reminder of our SCIS Winter Festival this Sunday from 11am-3pm. This is a family-friendly event, and we invite your family and friends to attend in the festivities. We will provide free busing to and from the event at the following locations. For the return trip, all buses will depart SCIS at 3:00 pm. Space on the bus is only for those who reserve in advance. To do so, contact Stu Ren at sren@scis-china.org

  • Shimao Riviera(1 Weifang Road Gate)世茂滨江（潍坊西路1号大门）: Depart 10:20
  • Green Court(777 Biyun Road, Lan’an road gate)碧云花园（碧云路777号蓝桉路大门）: Depart 10:30
  • Emerald(Emerald Club House)绿宝园会所: Depart 10:45

PAFA Meeting and Broadway Live (15 days left for SCIS discount!) Q&A

Today at 10:00 am there is a PAFA meeting in the main conference room. This is followed by a 2nd Question and Answer Session at 11:00 am about the visiting Broadway Live Theater Experience coming to SCIS Pudong. There are only 15 days left for SCIS parents to secure a discount.

This is a fantastic opportunity to have professionals from Broadway come to Shanghai and work with dedicated theater students from all over Shanghai. We hope you can spread the word (and the website !) to other families in Shanghai.

If you are unable to make the Q&A session but wish to find out more information, contact Laurie Luebbe at lluebbe@scis-china.org


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  • Up to 20 hours battery playtime
  • Quality aluminum enclosure
  • Auxiliary input
  • 2.5 in (63.5 mm) 20W full-range driver
  • 3 in (76.2) passive driver
  • Powerful 24-bit DSP equalization
  • High-quality Bluetooth 3.0 audio file transfer
  • 2600mAh Lithium-ion rechargeable battery
  • Power – 12VDC, 1A
  • Weight: 1.59 lb (0.72kg)
  • Dimensions: 5.3 in ∅ x 2.2 in H (135 mm ∅ x 55 mm H)

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  • Tivoli Go Andiamo Bluetooth Speaker
  • Power adapter
  • Quick Start Guide
What’s in the box…

One of the things the Tivoli Go Andiamo portable Bluetooth speaker has going for it is its looks and premium design materials. Circular in shape, the Andiamo is 5.3-inches in diameter and just over 2-inches in height. The main casing is made of aluminum and features a 1-inch light brown leather strap that wraps around the middle and ends in a loop for holding, carrying, or hanging from a hook.

The Tivoli Go Andiamo definitely has a premium look and uses quality materials.

The top of the speaker features your typical speaker holes, in this case arranged in a classy looking circular pattern with the Tivoli Go logo printed near the bottom.

As far as controls go, the volume up, volume down, and power buttons are stamped into the leather with a small LED indicator light positioned in the aluminum enclosure just above the power button. Further back is a Bluetooth pairing button just in front of the aluminum plug adorned with the TA icon at the base of the strap.

The volume down, up, and power buttons.

Hidden under the strap is the proprietary power jack — another miss given the proliferation of Micro-USB or USB Type-C charging solutions these days — and the 3.5mm line input inset into an aluminum piece.

Finally, the underside of the speaker has a roughly 3/8″ wide rubber ring that goes around the base for added grip and to prevent both scratching on the speaker and whatever you may be setting it down on.

The rubber ring does a nice job of preventing scratches on the speaker and your table.

Overall, the Tivoli Go Andiamo Bluetooth speaker is a nice looking speaker constructed from premium materials, albeit a bit on the heavy side. While our review unit came in silver with a light brown strap, a black on black version is also available.

Ease of Use

Like most Bluetooth speakers these days, the Tivoli Go Andiamo is easy enough to pair with your device. Simply turn it on and press and hold the Bluetooth button until the LED starts flashing blue. Once it is, you should see Tivoli Go Andiamo in your list of devices. Select it and you should be paired up.

As with most Bluetooth speakers these days, pairing is super simple.

While the Andiamo has volume controls, what it is lacking is any kind of playback controls. That means you can’t skip ahead or back to the previous track, or even (more importantly) the simple ability to play/pause the current track. In my opinion, this is a serious omission from any Bluetooth speaker released these days.

While I personally don’t use it with a Bluetooth speaker, the Andiamo is also lacking the speakerphone function that is present in almost any other Bluetooth speaker on the market today.

Sound Quality

As far as sound goes, the Tivoli Go Andiamo can get pretty loud. Even better, it boasts independent volume controls, meaning it doesn’t control volume on your phone giving you two ways to adjust and fine tune volume.

With the speaker set to full volume and the volume on my Pixel 2 XL set to about 25%, I found the Andiamo was loud enough to fill the room. When in the back yard, setting my phone volume to about 50% was enough to be heard comfortably pretty much anywhere in the yard. Crank it up, though, and the speaker starts to distort around 75-80%, and the distortion is definitely noticeable.

Top view of the Tivoli Go Andiamo: full on speaker grille.

For the most part, the sound is pretty balanced, although on occasion it does sound just a tad underwhelming. The bass end is more punchy as opposed to warm and full. This is most noticeable in hip-hop, EDM, and other bass-heavy genres. While it doesn’t sound bad, I do prefer the warmer full bass as opposed to the punchier bass. That being said, the bass is there and you can feel it when the speaker is set on a table.

Battery Life

Tivoli claims the battery in the Tivoli Go Andiamo lasts up to 20 hours between charges. As we all know, that depends on volume and type of music listened to. During our testing, we did see between 18-20 hours when used at about 50% volume with various types of music being played.

Once depleted, the speaker takes about 2-3 hours to fully recharge using the included charger.

The proprietary power adapter port and 3.5mm line in jack.

With an MSRP of $199USD, the Tivoli Go Andiamo isn’t exactly cheap. Sure, it’s well constructed and has a slick design, but it is missing some key features like playback controls.

The Tivoli Go Andiamo is a unique looking speaker that sounds decent enough but is lacking a few key Bluetooth speaker functions. Hopefully, the next iteration of the Tivoli Go Andiamo will add those key functions to provide better value.

*We were sent a review unit of the Tivoli Go Andiamo for the purposes of this review.

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  • Unique design
  • Quality build materials
  • Decent sound when used with equalizer
  • Great battery life
  • Independent audio controls

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  • Mediocre sound without equalizer
  • No physical playback controls
  • No speakerphone option
  • On the heavy side
  • Pricey considering the lack of features
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Stories are the new News Feed

If the camera is the new keyboard, then the future of social media will look more like a slideshow than a Word document. So while Snapchat invented Stories, we’ll have to get used to using them everywhere.

We can still praise Snapchat, or be pissed at Facebook for changing the apps we use every day, but we have to accept that this our reality now.

Facebook popularized the algorithmically-sorted feed. Tinder popularized yes/no swipes with two-sided consent to connect. Blogger, blogs. Google, PageRank. ICQ, instant messaging. Many of the products we use today are based on broad concepts pioneered elsewhere. The first apps to borrow/steal/copy/”be inspired by” might end up being called clones.

Yet eventually we stop assigning ownership to the originator and shame to followers, and start examining the intricacies of how a mechanic is uniquely implemented.

Snap Inc’s diagram of how Stories works

Facebook hasn’t been shy about this perspective. When Instagram Stories launched, CEO Kevin Systrom told me “This isn’t about who invented something. This is about a format, and how you take it to a network and put your own spin on it.”

A few months late when Messenger Day launched, Facebook’s VP of messaging David Marcus mirrored this sentiment, saying “I think the Stories format is definitely a format, the same way the feed is a format. In different contexts as a format, it just makes sense. In my book, it’s totally cool to look at what’s working out there and try to adapt it to the platform you have.”

Systrom was more forthcoming with giving Snap credit while Marcus seemed to purposefully avoid mentioning the competitor by name in our interview. But both are aggressively pushing these photo/video slideshows in their own products, while WhatsApp added the format in a separate tab and Facebook continues to expand the test of its own Stories feature.

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The world’s most popular social media company wouldn’t rapidly pivot its four top products towards Stories if it didn’t see the format as the inevitable future of sharing. It’s essentially communicating that ‘We either get on board or we get passed by’.

News Feed : Stories :: Text & Links : Photos & Videos

When Facebook launched the News Feed in 2006, it was designed for desktop. It was great at letting you type out text statuses on your keyboard, and copy and paste links to other websites, because stuck at home on a computer, there was nothing else interesting to share. With its wide margins, it could splay out text and link blurbs horizontally so they were easy to skim as you scrolled. Photos were more cumbersome, requiring you to shoot on a digital camera and upload them to your computer before sharing them to Facebook.

That was fine before we all had smartphones. But now both Facebook and Snap are moving towards visual communication. Evan Spiegel wrote in Snap’s IPO letter to investors that “In the way that the flashing cursor became the starting point for most products on desktop computers, we believe that the camera screen will be the starting point for most products on smartphones.” And a week later, Messenger Day product manager Tony Leach told me “We like to think of the camera as the new keyboard.”

That means the News Feed is outdated.

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Vertical scrolling leaves gaps of blank space between photos and videos. They don’t always show up full-screen by default. Skipping through dozens of them requires lots of thumb work.

The algorithmically-sorted News Feed that treats content shared minutes or hours apart as completely distinct also doesn’t fit modern media creation behaviors. It worked better pre-smartphone, when we were typically sharing photos and videos as a batch long after they were taken. Social media consumption was sporadic, rather than a multiple-times-per-day activity, so content had to be permanent or most people might miss it.

In the early days of mobile, the camera quality, storage capacity, screen size, and bandwidth also limited how much content we captured. We typically only shared the big highlights of our lives that would still be interesting days or years later, and the norm wasn’t to post multiple times per day. The feed didn’t have to worry much about ranking different photos or videos from the same day in the wrong order, jumbling the narrative. You could think of this as the camera-phone 1.0 era (because those tiny sensors on old flip phones were more like 0.1).

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But as our cameras, storage, screens, and networks improved, we wanted to capture more of our lives — the silly in between moments, not just the highlights. That meant the posts needed to be laced together into a cohesive tale, ensuring viewers have the context of our past posts before seeing the newest or most interesting ones. People embraced consuming social media constantly throughout the day. We began sharing more frequently, and to communicate in the moment rather than just to represent ourselves forever, so making the content permanent would just build up a trash heap of irrelevance.

Meanwhile, typing became more cumbersome on mobile, as did copy and pasting links without multiple browser tabs on screen at once. When we’re out on the go living life, we have more vivid, urgent things to share anyways.

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So, presented with the terrifying fact that its main content sharing medium was woefully ill-equipped for the shift from keyboards to cameras, Facebook did what it’s best at: adapting, even if its users don’t always like it.

  • Millions protested against the News Feed when it launched. But Facebook knew social networks would become more about sharing with others than just manicuring our own profiles
  • After some huge missteps where it tried to just wrap its old website in an app via HTML5, Facebook made mobile the focus of its product and engineering teams and all its users followed
  • When Facebook first recognized the dawn of the camera phone 1.0 era, it wisely bought Instagram even though it was already building a Facebook Camera app
  • Facebook split chat off of its main app and forced people to download Messenger separately. Legions of users complained they didn’t want another Facebook app…until they realized just how much they’d be messaging and that saving those few extra taps each time was critical.

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In November 2011, the iconic company Microsoft which is headquartered at Redmond,Washington had signed a partnership deal with Nokia, a Finland based company to sell the Nokia based smartphones under the wing of Microsoft. Microsoft Lumia previously known as Nokia Lumia series was started with the collaboration of the Microsoft Mobiles and Nokia but now it’s a discontinued line of Smartphones due to the bugs and errors reported by users due to the windows OS which lead to frequent disruption in the services. After the deal, the maintenance of Lumia phones was transferred to Microsoft Mobile. According to the rumors, Microsoft is planning a new line of surface Smartphones powered by Android OS, but the company hasn’t provided any final announcement on this issue. The new series of phones will not be a Lumia series as it’s been discontinued already.

It is rumoured that the Company’s technical team is working on a new line of Smartphones, but not much information is available for the about the upcoming project that the surface team is working on. The only information available is that the company store is going to have Android powered Smartphones. Until 2014, Microsoft used the name Nokia on Lumia phones. Once Nokia officially phased out from the branding, in Nov 2014, Microsoft announced its first production Lumia 535 a non-Nokia device. Microsoft had launched its first Windows 10 supported Lumia phone in Oct 2015, and then launched few more handsets in the Lumia series.

A screenshot of a conversation was shared which gave out the information that the Window phone experts are working on a new model to release in the market. The person has mentioned in the conversation that the new line of Microsoft phones will not be using Windows 10 but, he never mentioned anything about the model type. the phone is expected to be a Microsoft branded Android OS Smartphone to elate the user experience.

After the release of Windows 10, the sales of the companies reduced so Microsoft planned to stop the production of the Lumia series in the year 2016. The company is not providing any information on the topic as they want to keep it a surprise for the users. In Oct 2017 the Microsoft corporate vice president, Joe Belfiore had confirmed about the fact that Microsoft will not be manufacturing or selling any mobile devices having windows 10 support.

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So this user could download documents. A small animation would point downward to indicate a download was in progress. The downloaded document would appear in the actual Downloads folder. But no download status bar would appear on Chrome itself.

I'm not sure if download status bar is the proper name for it, but I'm talking about this:fixchromedownloadbar01 It usually appears with the name of your download after your download starts.

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    1. Same here. Mine worked fine this morning, doesn’t now. I hate these automatic “updates” that windows 10 does. They screw something up every time!!!

  1. Doesn’t work. Created an entire different new user and eliminated the default file and created new. Still doesn’t work. this happens randomly and is an issue with work.

  2. I got it working again by going to the burger menu > Settings > Advanced > scroll right to the bottom (Reset and Clean) and hit the first option, ‘Restore Settings to their original defaults’. You won’t lose history or bookmarks, but you will have to re-enable any extensions you have added yourself.

    The problem seems to come from the fact that when the downloads bar was showing, at some point you will have right-clicked and selected ‘Always open files of this type’

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Electric cars have burst onto the drag racing scene in the past few years, in fact, 3 of the top 5 quickest cars in the world are electric. But will this trend continue for much longer?

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Today we’re going to look at the top 5 fastest accelerating production cars in the world and dig into what might be coming down the road. Let’s start with number 5, the Bugatti Veyron
The Bugatti Veyron is a mid-engine sports car designed and developed by Volkswagen Group and made in Molsheim France. It gets its name from the racing driver Pierre Veyron.

The super sport version of this car is recognized as the fastest production car in the world comes in at #5 in our list of quickest, meaning the fastest from 0 to 60 miles per hour.

Bugatti limited their production of this model to a mere 450, 30 of which were the super sport variety, and sold them for a cool 1.7M dollar US.

On the UK show Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that the Veyron cost around £5M pounds to make and were sold to customers for around £1M pounds. They called it a “Concord moment” billed as a technical exercise.

When it came down to it, the Bugatti Veyron had a lot going for it, but in the 0 to 60 test it clocked in at just 2.5 seconds, a few tenths behind the leader.

Next, we have the LaFerrari. LaFerrari, Italian for The Ferrari, is a limited production hybrid sports car from Ferrari. The idea behind the name is that this is the “definitive” or “ultimate” Ferrari.
Personally, I’m partial to the 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS that Tom Selleck drove in Magnum PI, one of my favorite shows as a kid, but hey, this one looks pretty cool too. So this is our first hybrid electric on our list, as I promised and this one comes with a shocking sticker price of over 7M dollars making it this century’s most expensive car sold at auction.

Did I mention Ferrari has only made about 500 of these? That increases the value of these collector sports cars for rich people. One interesting fact about this car is that the hybrid engine they made increases power output while decreasing fuel consumption by 40 percent…in a Ferrari!

Unlike the Bugatti Veryon which breaks the 250mph speed barrier LaFerrari clocks in with a top speed of 217mph and 2.4sec which to be fair, was taken on a downhill track so it’s hard to say how it would fare against these others in similar conditions

Coming in at #3 we have the Bugatti Chiron which is the successor to our #5 car, the Veyron. The Chiron, like the Veyron, is a mid-engine sports car and is the latest from the French carmaker introduced in March of 2016. The 8-litre W16 quad-turbocharged engine was carried over from the previous model although Bugatti made lots of updates to it for this version. In this model, for safety reasons, they limited the top speed to 261mph, but it is believed that the car could reach 288mph without the speed governor.

Like the Veyron, this supercar is limited to 500 units, 200 of which were sold before the car was manufactured. That may not sound like much but considering the price tag is 2.8M dollars it’s not a bad payday for Bugatti. The Bugatti Chiron clocks in with a 0-60 time of 2.3 seconds earning it the third spot in our list of top 5 fastest production cars.

It’s down to the last two but before we get to them I want to mention something about the limitations of acceleration for automobiles.

A few key factors influencing how fast cars can reach 60mph, notably horsepower, AWD, and grip. When trying to calculate the physical limit of a car’s acceleration, you first have to assume that you have unlimited horsepower to push the car along as fast as it possibly can handle. For a car to accelerate as fast as possible, all four wheels need to work together, so AWD is a must. So far so good for all our cars on this list.

The limiting factor often comes down to grip. Without getting too deep into the weeds, the way people often calculate this is by looking at how fast a car can stop. They measure that in feet it takes to go from 60mph to 0. Here is where things get a little tricky. The concept is that if you know how fast a car can stop, you can then figure out how much grip the tires have. For these cars, we’re only considering street legal tires and not ones specifically made for drag racing. Once you know how much grip the tires have, meaning they provide acceleration instead of just spinning on the track, then you can calculate the theoretical limit of a car’s acceleration. That is their 0-60 time.

When it comes to our #2 car, however, the Tesla Model S P100D, the laws of physics here need to bend a little. I have a link to great videos from the Engineering Explained video in the description if you’d like to learn more.

// Engineering Explained 0-60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAvIVGGhEis

In short, the Model S has an odd ratio of it’s acceleration to deceleration rates, which indicate that there is more to the equation, and may also mean that it could achieve an even faster time with some tuning to the traction control and other parts of the operating system. The Tesla Model S P100D is the only fully electric car on our list and is Tesla’s fastest option with the Ludicrous mode giving it a 0-60 time of 2.28 seconds.

Tesla Software limits the top speed at 155mph, and unlike the other cars, Tesla has been selling thousands of these each quarter for the past few years. This is Tesla’s most expensive Sedan coming in around 150,000 which is still around 750K cheaper than the next most affordable car on our list. Unlike the other supercars on our list, the Tesla Model S is highly regarded as the best luxury sedan money can buy and comes in cheaper versions affordable to a much broader market. While the other car makers here set out to make the fastest sports-car possible, Tesla made the best sedan possible, and it just happened to be faster than nearly all other production cars in the world.

The reason the Tesla made this list is due to the instant peak torque. You can see how obvious this is when you look at the acceleration graph compared to some of the other supercars. You’ll notice that the Tesla jumps way out ahead of all the other cars but then quickly begins to lose ground. So in a 0-60 test the Tesla Model S comes in second, but if the track were much longer, it wouldn’t perform nearly as well.

This brings us to #1 – the Porshe 918 Spyder. The Porsche 918 Spyder is a mid-engine plugin-hybrid sports car from Porsche. The Spyder is powered by a naturally aspirated 4.6-litre V8 engine with two electric motors delivering some additional force to make it the worlds fastest car in the 0-60 test. Porsche initially unveiled the 918 cider at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show but didn’t release the production version of it until 2013 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Since then they’ve made almost 1,000 of these making it the second most selling car on our list. With a price tag of 845K, this beauty is practically a steal, especially when compared to the 7M dollar Ferrari.

With a top speed of 210 mph the Porsche 918 Spyder comes in with a 0-60 time of an even 2.2 seconds, a full eight hundredths of a second faster than the Tesla Model S P100D, and for a mere 700K more!

So there you have it, three of the top 5 quickest cars on the planet are electric for today. In the future, I’m guessing this trend is going to continue, however, including the upcoming NextGen Tesla Roadster.

While not more than rumors at this point Elon has said he would consider shooting for making the Next-Gen version of the Tesla Roadster quick enough to come in under 2 seconds in the 0-60 test. While it may sound simple, just put the P100D drivetrain in a lighter car, it is going to be harder than it sounds.

Going back to the physics of it, the weight of the car plays a role in the amount of grip it has, in a negative way. Tesla equipped the original roadster with a 50kWh battery pack giving it a weight of nearly 3,000 lb. The Model S P100D, in contrast, has a 100kWh pack and weighs only 2,000lb more. Using some back of the napkin calculations, the Next-Gen Roadster would need to be closer to 1,000lb with the same amount of horsepower to beat the 2-second barrier

Considering the battery is the heaviest part of the car, and they’d need to increase the size of it over original roadster, I’m just not seeing it. I’m not saying they can’t do it if anyone is capable of breaking the laws of physics to get his way it’s Elon, I have faith, but at first blush, it seems unlikely.

I’d love to know what you think…besides Tesla are we going to see more EVs start to dominate the 0-60 times? Will the roadster beat the 2sec barrier? Leave me a comment down below.


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5 Lies Hollywood Told Us About Snow

I grew up in Southern California and, even though I had seen snow in the mountains when I was a kid, most of what I learned about snow came from movies. When I moved to the Northeast 11 years ago, I was in for a rude awakening. Here are some of the lies spread by the movie-makers…and believed by at least one naïve Californian.

1. Snow is pretty and white. Sure, the first few hours after a snow storm are gorgeous. And if you’re lucky enough to see snow cover rolling hills or a group of pine trees, it’s especially majestic. But in the urban world in which most of us live, snow is dirty. The plows send loads of oil and grime mixed with chunks of white into piles that line the streets and parking lots. After just a day or two, the once white blanket is nothing more than grey mush.

2. Don’t eat the Yellow Snow….Oh no, wait. That one is true.

3. Snow Angels are fun. We have all seen the movie scenes of people smiling as they make snow angels, giggling as they flop around in the pure white puff. It’s totally bogus. My Freshman year of College, after the first snow storm, I was so excited to go outside and play. My team mates and friends all made fun of “the silly California girl” as I wrapped up for some fun. As soon as I found a fresh spot, I threw myself down on my back and started flapping my legs and wings. Within seconds I could feel the cold snow on my back where my jacket had been tugged up by my arms. I felt crystals on my neck, slipping between my hat and scarf. And since I didn’t have proper boots, my shoes were filled with snow by the time I stood up. Not only did my “Angel” look nothing like the one in the movies, but my playtime was cut short by the unexpected frost-bitten sensation coursing through my body.

4. Snow = Snowball Fight! I always thought a good, clean snowball fight was standard practice when it snowed. One thing they never share in movies is that it takes a special kind of snow to make a snowball. Sometimes, snow is too heavy and wet. Sometimes it’s too soft and powdery. Only rarely does one some across perfect snowball snow. Even then, throwing a ball of flakes packed into a make-shift baseball is quite difficult. In my experience, the snowball exploded over my own head mid-throw more often than it found its target.

5. It only Snows at night, when children dream of a White Christmas. I always imagined waking up on Christmas Day and racing to the window to share with the rest of my house, “It SNOWED!” I had this idea in my head that snow was made by magic. Unfortunately, it is much more common to utter the words, “Ugh, it snowed. Can I use your ice scraper?”


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Recipe Exchange: Slow Cooker!

Welcome to Recipe Exchange, posted on Fridays around lunchtime with a theme. Share recipes around that theme, or if you’ve just made something amazing, feel free to veer off topic. (Note: my WordPress account was created long before I became The Duchess Approves.)

To help your fellow Avocados in recreating your masterpieces, try to write your recipes as clearly as possible, including ingredients, measurements and instructions. If you’re copying and pasting from another site, please include the link to the source. (If you don’t want to bother with copying and pasting, linking directly to the recipe is good, too.)

Today’s theme: Slow Cooker Recipes! Sometimes, in the heat of the summer, you just don’t want to heat up the house by using the oven. Slow cookers make for a nice shortcut around this. Share your favorite recipes to make in a slow cooker (or instant pot if that’s your jam) here.

Chicken Tikka Masala

Source – This is one of my favorites to make in the slow cooker. If I’m setting it before leaving for work, I’ll make the sauce and chop the chicken the night before and refrigerate, before I dump it all in in the morning. It makes a lot and it’s all delicious.

2 lbs chicken, cut into 1½-inch chunks (original calls for breasts – I use thighs)
1 large onion, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 (29 oz.) can of tomato sauce
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon Garam masala
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (adjust according to your heat preference)
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
2 bay leaves

1 cup half and half (or heavy cream)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Juice of ½ lemon

  • Combine all ingredients (except for bay leaves, heavy cream, arrowroot powder, and lemon juice) with a large large spatula, making sure that the chicken is well coated. I do this right in the crock pot.
  • Place the two bay leaves on top of the mixture in the slow cooker.
  • Cover and cook for 8 hours on low (or 4 hours on high).
  • When done, in a small bowl combine half and half and cornstarch, and gently stir into the mixture. Let cook an additional 20 minutes to thicken up.
  • Finally add lemon juice and gently stir to incorporate.
  • Serve warm with basmati rice and naan on the side.


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‘Ere we go, ‘Ere we go, ‘Ere we go! Petrol to drop under $1 a litre.

johnboy 26 November 2008 33

If this is recession I say give me more!

The ABC informs us that Canberra petrol prices are going to go under $1 a litre this week despite the gloomy prognostication of the peak oil doom-mongers who bravely said it would never happen.

Interest rates plumetting, petrol prices down by more than a third. That Kevin Rudd gets things done for working families eh?

Certain mouth breathing media outlets think a shopper-docket discount price counts as a real price and have already announced this. But we’re holding out for the real thing.

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farnarkler 10:48 am 27 Nov 08

Hehehehe we are such easily led mammals.

tylersmayhem 10:41 am 27 Nov 08

Yeah, kinda figured and it sucks!

Skidbladnir 10:13 am 27 Nov 08

@tylers: Its a marketing psychology effect that I forget the name of, but the theory is that the average human only pays serious attention to the first one or two significant figures, and sees the figures after the decimal point or comma as almost inconsequential.

So fuel sells better at 99.9c/L than at $1/L, a car at $24,999 sells more units than the same car at $25,010, etc.

tylersmayhem 10:04 am 27 Nov 08

I paid 99.9 cents at calwell this morning.

And I think this is a perfect time to actually pose the question – what’s the deal with all fuel prices ending in point 9? 120.9, 99.9, 1.70.9. WTF?

farnarkler 9:25 am 27 Nov 08

Bang for buck eh? Remember when Holden dropped the 253 because six cylinder motors were getting more powerful

Thumper, Sir Frank Williams people carrier is better; the body of a Renault Espace (read Toyota Tarago) with the chassis and engine from a formula one car. Could make the Saturday morning shopping run interesting!!

Thumper 9:12 am 27 Nov 08

Like Jamie oliver’s wobbler? That is one seriously cool machine…

Besides, wobblers cost a fortune these days!

The appeal with locally made V8s is their bang for buck – they don’t cost much to buy (and are cheap in terms of servicing, parts and, often, insurance), and go well with plenty of room for humans inside.

I’ve had mine 5 and a half years and have no intention of replacing it.

That said, not everyone wants one, and that’s fine. Never before has Australia had such a wide range of vehicles for a buyer to choose from.

farnarkler 8:38 am 27 Nov 08

‘Yawn’ Boring. If you want to fit a lot of gear, how about a Kombi van fitted with a Porsche V10?

Thumper 8:13 am 27 Nov 08

Nope, I want a V8 Statesman, except I can’t fit the band gear in it ;(

farnarkler 7:53 am 27 Nov 08

Stop dragging your knuckles along the ground and accept there are much better cars out there than V8 commodores (and falcons).

G-Fresh 11:25 pm 26 Nov 08

Everyone wants a V8 Commodore now. I’m telling you

ant 9:57 pm 26 Nov 08

My weekly fill on the gas-gulping hulking child-killing 4WD was $19 today.

Thumper 8:37 pm 26 Nov 08

using your car less is still cheaper than paying for fuel and wear & tear.

Ah.. you sure about that?

shiny flu 8:32 pm 26 Nov 08

Just goes to show that the people running our economies are about as intelligent as question-less devotees of celebrity gossip magazines. Just replace ‘Angelina makes 10yo child adopt another child’ with ‘Gold is really shiny and impresses people, lets sell all our shares and buy that up instead’.

Regardless of the price drop or not, using your car less is still cheaper than paying for fuel and wear & tear.

Last week I filled the V8, from almost empty, with premium, for 75 bucks. Cheering.

I think $1.20 a litre is more realistic for the medium term.

Holden Caulfield 3:54 pm 26 Nov 08

Gungahlin Al said :

Under a buck? Not seen since 2000. Yeehar. Back to filling up the little Paseo for less than $40.

Not true, although pretty close. I did get fuel for under 96¢ from Shell in Fyshwick back in April 2004.

caf 3:46 pm 26 Nov 08

OPEC can charge whatever people will pay for their product. Just like we do with our iron ore and coal.

The price gap between unleaded and premium seems not to have contracted back to what it was when fuel was last at this price, I’ve noticed.

jakez 3:42 pm 26 Nov 08

BerraBoy68 said :

jakez said :

As a young, upwardly mobile, debt free individual, this recession is turning out to be personally fantastic for me.

If I lose my job, there is always the Army Reserve.

Nothing should ever be so bad as to make you think the Army Reserve is a valid option… for anything. I spent several years in the A.Res after leaving the forces as a ‘regular’ and let me tell you, DONT DO IT! (oh, the humanity, the humanity… sob)

Please elaborate either here or in private (I can get johnboy to give you my email).

bubzie 3:31 pm 26 Nov 08

I paid 99.9 cents at calwell this morning.

It may of been with my everyday rewards card, but was under a dollar! i was happy! 🙂

wishuwell 2:42 pm 26 Nov 08

Agreed johnboy and to think folk didn’t believe oil tankers were doing cicle work in the Gulf for weeks on end ’cause they didn’t have orders for their shipments. And now the oil companies are suggesting demand is falling. What ever happened to the “Northern winter approaching excuse for shortages/higher prices beyond our control”.

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Greetings all! I have been booked for an historic, Victorian home and museum for a Christmas Formal. Obviously, I will mingle, pictures, etc. What other things could I do with adults. This is my first year. Grateful for any advice and suggestions.

Ed Taylor I have found that adults often like to get videos of Santa wishing children, grandchildren and others a merry Christmas or other greetings and well wishes.

Walt Kaiser The adults also like to hear about the Life of Saint Nicolas, How Santa came to be what we are called in different countries. How we can visit all the countries in one evening Why we use the colors we do in suit, why the hat is shaped the way it is etc.

Here is what I tell adults regarding Saint Nicolas, born about 273 AD, in Patara, now in Turkey, not a white guy but of middle eastern ancestry. The story goes that his parents died when he was young and left a goody inheritance. One evening while out walking thru the town he saw 3 sisters whom he knew had no dowery.

At that time no dowery meant no marriage and possibly a very bad life was install for them. The next night he walked by and noticed a window open, he thought of putting coins in a purse and throwing it in the window but was not sure that there dad would use it for their dowery. The next evening he came by later in the evening , saw the window open and that the young girls had their stocking drying by the fire. He crawled thru the window and put coins in each of their stockings, hence” the stockings were hung by the chimney with care with the hope that saint Nicolas would soon be there” was born.

As he became an adult he eventually became a Bishop in the early church.

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There are various stories about his Sainthood, one goes that he had an argument with another Bishop about the tenant that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is one, where the other Bishop argued that they were 23 separate being. The argument became heated, and Nicolas struck the other Bishop. Nicolas was to be placed in a cell for doing the assault. He was stripped of his Bishop’s robe, Mitre and Bible and thrown in a cell. The next morning the guard came to feed Nicolas and found him in his robe, Mitre and reading from his Bible. This was deemed a miracle and contributed to his Sainthood.

The hat that we wear as Santa. although folded resembles the bishop’s mitre.

The red from the suit is the red of a bishop’s robe.

The staff that bishops carry became the candy cane and can be read as a J for Jesus or as a staff.

The red of the candy cane is for the blood that Christ shed for us and the white is for the fact that we have been forgiven our sins.

I also talk about skipping forward centuries to Holland and the emergence of Sinter Claus.

Of course, Thomas Nast, Clark Clement Moore and Haden Sundblum are all mentioned as well.

We do not have to cover the world in 1 night because there are countries that do not believe in Santa Claus, China, India, Southeast Asia, parts of Africa etc.

I also let them know that we actually visit 3 times depending upon your religion, Dec 6th for the Feast of St. Nicolas, celebrating the life and death of Nicolas. The Julian Calendar day of 12.25 and the Orthodox Christian day of Jan 7th .

Then when I leave, I wish them a Merry Christmas, Feli Navidad, Joyeaux Noel, Bon Natale, and Froelich Weinachten.

The above usually takes me just under an hour because I also do a Q &A session with them.

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5500 choose desertion over going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan

Dec 20, 2004

The Pentagon admits that over 5500 U.S. troops have deserted since March 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The TV program 60 Minutes recently interviewed three of these servicemen. What these young former soldiers have to say is worth listening to.

Twenty-four-year-old Marine Dan Felushko enlisted in the Marines after 9/11. But in January 2003, when ordered to Kuwait to prepare for the invasion of Iraq, he refused to go and instead went to Canada. Felushko explained, "I didn't want 'Died deluded in Iraq' over my gravestone. I didn't see a connection between the attack on America and Saddam Hussein. If I died or killed somebody in Iraq, that would have been wrong. It is my right to choose between what I think is right and wrong."

Brandon Hughey graduated from high-school in Texas around the time Bush declared war in Iraq. He volunteered for the army to get money for college. It wasn't until he finished Basic Training that he began to follow the news closely. When "I found out that they found no weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq] ... and the claim they made about ties to al Qaeda was coming up short, it made me angry because I felt our lives were being thrown away as soldiers."

After the reporter read letters in the newspaper from Hughey's home town labeling him a traitor and coward and calling for the death penalty, Hughey stood his ground. He said, "Before I joined the Army, I would have thought the same way. I'm thankful for this experience because it has opened my eyes and has taught me not to take things on the surface."

Jeremy Hinzman from South Dakota joined up for a military career and was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. He began to have doubts during training when guys in his unit were walking to chow hall, yelling, "Train to kill, kill we will." He filled out forms to be a Conscientious Objector (CO) which would have allowed him to stay in the Army in a non-combat job. While waiting for a decision, he was deployed to Afghanistan where he did kitchen duty. Later the Army denied him CO status and he was ordered to Iraq.

Hinzman refused to go. He took his wife and pre-school son to Canada. When the reporter asked, "Weren't you supposed to follow orders?", he answered, "I was told in basic training, if I'm given an illegal or immoral order, it is my duty to disobey it. I feel invading and occupying Iraq is an illegal and immoral thing to do. There are times when armies or countries act in a collectively wrong way."

These three men may be unusual in agreeing to speak publicly, but behind them are thousands more soldiers who in one way or another also turned their back on an army that proposed to use them as cannon fodder.