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This Weekend In Sydney

By Lucy Cook
16th Apr 2015

As the weather cools down our weekends are heating up with a bunch of things to do in Sydney that will have you eating, exercising, watching and laughing throughout the weekend. Pull out your diaries and start booking, there is too much great stuff that you cannot miss!

Thursday 16th

The Rocks Pop-Up

No longer are all the vacant buildings in The Rocks just places to gather dust, The Rocks Pop-Up is an initiative that makes use of these buildings by providing creative workers with access to affordable space to produce and showcase original works and host unique events while the building looks for tenants. This fantastic initiative is now in its third year and is full of performance, arts, crafts, digital media and design with various studios, galleries, rehearsal and performance venues welcoming artists and visitors alike. Check out the website and see which of the ever-changing events and locations tickle your fancy.

Friday 17th

Yoga Under The Harbour Bridge

At sunset, the bar at Pier One offers delicious cocktails and amazing views, and at sunrise, they are now offering yoga with the aforementioned amazing views. From Tuesday to Saturday for the next few months, in-house guests can enjoy complimentary yoga classes overlooking one of Sydney’s most beautiful sights – our harbour. Guests not staying at Pier One are welcome to join the sunrise spirit exercise, with Yogi Amanda teaching Vinyasa Yoga with elements of Forrest Yoga thrown in as well.

Tutti A Tavola Roman Edition

Massimo Mele is taking over the Salt Meats Cheese kitchen once again for a night of fun, food and flair in their jamon-studded warehouse. Massimo will be cooking a four course Roman feast of authentic Italian street food and tickets are selling super fast for this event, which will have you sipping on an Aperol Spritz on arrival before digging into some woodfired lamb shoulder, veal saltimbocca and baked semolina gnocchi. Get in quick before there are no rum babas left for you and your pals – it’s going to be delicious.

Saturday 18th

Crows Nest Market

For things to do in Sydney that involve a little bit of everything, head to Crows Nest Market. Every third Saturday of the month, Ernest Place in Crows Nest turns into a bustling market with food stalls, a jumping castle, and of course plenty of markets to roam through. Whether it’s books and CDs or condiments and candles you’re after, this market is well worth a visit for a good dose of family fun.

Electric Run Sydney

Finally an event that will satisfy both the serious runners and the dance floor divas of your group of friends! This 5km run will have music pumping and lights flashing, creating an electric wonderland that will keep you moving and energised. The best part of all? The music is custom-mixed to match the mood of the lights, so the musical OCD in you that wants your movements to sync with your environment will be in heaven. Fluoro, neon and glitter are set to shine in the dark, so dress head to toe in colour and creativity and get moving!

Cake Pop Workshops with Katherine Sabbath

There is something about food on a stick that gets our attention. Katherine Sabbath will be teaching us non-baking superstars how to create gorgeous (and delicious) cake pops this Saturday at Peters Of Kensington. Tickets are $30 per person and you’ll get to take six cake pops home for you to gorge on as soon as you get home. Purchase tickets here

Sunday 19th

Insurgent at Sydney Open Air Cinema

You don’t need to convince us that we should go and see Insurgent at Sydney Open Air Cinema, because we love watching a movie outside just as much as we love watching films made for teenagers. Even if we are a little past the target age, the second film in the ‘Divergent’ trilogy is set to be just as good as the first, ticking the action, romance and suspense boxes all in two hours.

Monday 20th

High tea at Hotel Centennial

It’s Hotel Centennial's first birthday! And what better way to kick off the week-long celebrations than with a fancy high tea? Enjoy a glass of Veuve Clicquot on arrival, an organic tea-tasting hosted by Anthia Koullouros from Oovio Organics in Paddington, accompanied by gorgeous pastries and treats. We can’t think of a better way to start the week! For more information about this high tea and the other fun events happening, head here.

Sydney Comedy Festival

The funniest few weeks on the Sydney calendar kicks off tonight with ‘Cracker Night’ events all across the city – gala style evenings with a stack of fantastic comedians ready to make you chuckle. Check out the website for what you want to see, we’ve even written a handy guide if you’re looking for some inspiration, and book some tickets! With so many fantastic talents in our city, shows are sure to sell out, so for once, it’s time to be organised! You will be paid in laugher and good times, which is the best kind of payment there is (you know, apart from the stuff that you keep in your wallet).

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What Does Matte Mean in Japanese?

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Wait is a word we often yell to catch someone who might be leaving a room or building, or if we are running to catch a bus or train.

The way you say "wait" in Japanese is Matte.

The more formal form of the word is "Chotto matte kudasai."

Chotto means "a small amount/degree," and kudasai means "please."

This phrase can be used in many different ways where it's appropriate to say "wait a moment." For example, a shop keeper speaking to a customer in a more relaxed tone.
A much more formal way to say "wait a moment" is Shou-shou o-machi kudasai.

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In 2012 researchers found that letting your mind wander can lead to better creative problem solving. ‘Daydreaming is how we access problem solving. Daydreaming is how we access our big picture state of mind, Fries said. When you’re in a daydreaming state of mind you can visualise it, simulate your own version of events.’

When you’re not actively trying to solve a problem, it often stays in the back of your mind. Your brain is still subtly ticking over the problem whether you are aware of it or not. Working on challenging or intense tasks for a long period of time can lead to your mind becoming exhausted, making it tougher to create fresh new ideas. Daydreaming, or taking a step back, enables your mind a rest, be free of restraints and therefore more likely to create new ideas.

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Have you seen the trailor for Mel Gibson’s film about the last 12 hours of Christ’s life? This has been the subject of much debate, as Jewish leaders raise concerns about anti-Semitism and others respond. Here are some responses from people who have actually seen a rough cut at the behest of the New York Post, which apparently bootlegged a copy (the uniform reaction — except from the “Post reader” — was that the film unfairly portrayed Jews).

Amitai Etzioni, who has been blogging regularly on this topic, had an interesting take on this flap way back in September:

Those who will wrap themselves in the First Amendment should note that no one is arguing that the government should ban the movie — only that it is morally not right. There are many things we can say about African Americans, Jews, and for that matter about Catholics, which best remain unsaid.

While I suspect that there will be no uniform Mormon response to this film, my inclination is to agree with Etzioni.

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  1. December 1, 2003 at 10:41 am

    I am curious as to your thoughts then on the LDS Church’s productions on Christ’s crucifixion such as The Lamb of God and others. We clearly believe, indeed the Book of Mormon teaches, that the Jewish leadership at the time of Christ was responsible for Christ’s illegal conviction and crucifixion. Of course, we don’t believe in any group guilt, but we adhere to the historical facts of His death. From my understanding, Mel Gibson has merely stuck to the historical facts as taken directly from the text of the gospels. Do religious groups who teach from the gospels threaten the world with anti-semitism?

  2. Taylor
    December 1, 2003 at 5:14 pm

    Brent writes- “the Book of Mormon teaches that Jewish leadership at the time of Christ was responsible for Christ’s illegal conviction and crucifixion.” I am not sure that the conviction was illegal, and I don’t think that the Book of Mormon teaches that (though I may be mistaken). However, this is a far cry from the ADL’s accusations about the Passion:
    “The film portrays Jewish authorities and the Jewish “mob” as forcing the decision to torture and execute Jesus, thus assuming responsibility for the crucifixion.
    The film relies on sinister medieval stereotypes, portraying Jews as blood-thirsty, sadistic and money-hungry enemies of God who lack compassion and humanity.
    The film relies on historical errors, chief among them its depiction of the Jewish high priest controlling Pontius Pilate
    The film uses an anti-Jewish account of a 19th century mystical anti-Semitic nun, distorts New Testament interpretation by selectively citing passages to weave a narrative that oversimplifies history, and is hostile to Jews and Judaism.
    The film portrays Jews who adhere to their Jewish faith as enemies of God and the locus of evil.”

    I don’t think that “informed” :) Mormons believe any of these things.

    Much of NT scholarship is looking at how the term “Ioudaioi” is used. It is often translated as “Jews,” but more often probably means “Judeans,” to refer to the people of Judea, and not all Jews (this is especially true when the Judeans cry that their blood be responsible, a reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, not all Jews). It would be interesting to see if the BoM yeilds the same results. The so-called “historical facts” actually probably piont to a minimal involvement of any Jews except for a few leaders, and the death of Jesus was probably mostly a Roman affair. The blame of the Jews by both NT and BoM writers is rooted in both political and theological arguments, not historical ones. Theologically, the theme of the righteous prophet rejected by his own people is at the heart of much of OT narrative. However, this idea has an unfortunate history in our own culture, far removed from ancient Israel. We should be especially reflexive about how we use it today.

  3. December 1, 2003 at 10:15 pm

    I am aware of what the ADL claims. Unfortunately, it does not square with what those who have actually seen the film in its rough form relate. Mel Gibson and many others have stated that the movie is based almost entirely on the accounts of the gospel and the claim that the movie is based on the writings of a 19th century mystic ant-semitic nun have been refuted. I guess my main point is that the historical fact is both that those mainly responsible for Christ’s death and also his followers (and Christ himself) may properly be called Jews regardless of the definition we look to. It may be an unpleasant fact that the Jewish leadership and the “rabble” who supported them called for Christ’s execution, but it remains a fact.

  4. Jooniper
    February 26, 2004 at 7:23 pm

    I just came from a BYU religion class and my professor was one of 7 professors asked by the comunity to see the film and give an opinion. 6 to 1, the professors said they would not discourage seeing it. The one who said he would discourage it was my professor, and here were his reasons (as far as I understand):
    1) Obviously the film is gruesome and disturbing
    2)It does have some ideas in it not supported by the bible and does seem to go out of its way to play the jews (it takes the blame away from Pilate), and it has Caiaphas mocking Christ on the cross. Sounds like Gibson took some artistic license.
    The point is, so long as Mormons have a firm graps of the truth AND recognize their own sensitivites to violence (some mormons may be able to handle it, some won’t…) watching the Passion is a personal decision, and viewers can watch the film and allow it to make them think about thier own beliefs.

  5. Ben
    February 26, 2004 at 7:31 pm

    Can you tell us who the “February Seven” were Jooniper?

  6. February 26, 2004 at 7:42 pm

    “…for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” –Acts 4:27-28

  7. February 26, 2004 at 8:38 pm

    Just to go with Aaron’s comments, the book of Acts does seem to take a different view with respect to the Jews. The KJV is a tad obscuring on this so I’ll quote the NIV.

    “Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.” (Acts 3:17)

  8. Anonymous
    January 2, 2005 at 3:22 am

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I had heard of the name “BTS” (formally named “Bangtan Sonyeondan”) when I first started college two years ago. I knew they were on the rise as they started to become a common name amongst my old high school friends. But, I thought to myself that they were just another group that would come and go, as most groups do within the K-Pop industry.

However, as the years went on, they started to become bigger; more popular than I had ever seen. They were achieving things that past K-Pop groups haven’t: winning an award at the BMAs (Billboard Music Awards), being featured on American shows like Ellen and Saturday Night Live, and winning the most Daesangs (Korean for “grand prizes”) in history. It was clear that they stood out amongst many, especially being one of the first artists for South Korean company Big Hit Entertainment.

I became a “fan” of BTS only a year ago, when they were promoting their “Love Yourself” series. I started buying their albums, watching their videos and following their social media accounts. I was very drawn to the message behind that era; the concept of loving yourself was something I hadn’t seen in other K-pop songs. Most K-pop songs, to my understanding, usually dealt with “love” or “heartbreak.” Hearing messages of self-love felt very genuine; we don’t have to look to another person for self-validation. Rather, this validation comes from us. It is our self-acceptance that moves us past relationships and through life.

BTS’ fanbase, known as “ARMY” show themselves to be the most dedicated fans across any industry. They are well known for their organization and loyalty to the group, and such dedication rings true: back in April of 2019, BTS’ video for “Boy With Luv” broke the Youtube record for most views in 24 hours, amounting to 74.6 million views. Their most popular video, to date, is “DNA” with 890 million views. When it comes to supporting the group, the ARMY puts out all of the stops to show the world their love.

Such a love came across for me, when I attended the “BOBA WITH LUV” event back in the beginning of December at Heere Tea, just down the street from CSUF. BOBA WITH LUV is a BTS fan event dedicated to celebrating the member’s birthdays. This time, the event happened in honor of BTS’ members Taehyung (also known as “V”) and Jin’s birthdays, both whose birthdays are in December. Lailani, the creator of “BOBA WITH LUV” started the idea after attending a similar event. “BOBA WITH LUV was actually only supposed to be a one-time event,” she says. “The idea started brewing in my mind over a year ago because I wanted to do one for V’s birthday. I had seen cup sleeve events being thrown across Asia through Twitter and was always curious as to how they worked. After going to my first BTS cup sleeve event in March, I knew I wanted to do one myself.”

The event began at 12 PM, but ARMYs lined-up as early as the night before to ensure their place in line. Around 10 AM, there were already more than 200 ARMYs waiting to enter the boba shop. In the shop, decorations in honor of Taehyung and Jin fill the walls, in addition to small vendors and photo opportunities. But, that’s not all: ARMYs have also taken to name drinks in honor of the two members, with names such as “Jin Hit,” “Singulari-tea,” and “Worldwide Handsome.” Although such an event has gained massive success with ARMYs near and far, planning the event hasn’t been easy. “This whole experience has been a learning curve for me,” Lailani says. “I had to learn the hard way that I couldn’t do it all by myself for the second event. I fortunately now have a solid team of 5 other girls who help with the planning of these events. These ladies have their own set of skills and strengths that are critical in becoming an effective team.”

It was evident that their work paid off and was appreciated; ARMYs constantly thank the team on Twitter for their patience and efforts to create events like these. While on the outside fans may be met with animosity for liking a Korean boy band, BOBA WITH LUV serves as a “safe space” for ARMYs to share their love with BTS while making life-long friends. Lailani and her team share the same sentiment: “ARMY is the reason that makes the BOBA WITH LUV experience the way it is,” she says. “They come to our events with their positive energy, handmade freebies, and courage in trying to make new friends at the end of the day. If BOBA WITH LUV continues to be a safe haven for SoCal ARMY, then we, as a team, will continue to provide that for them. BOBA WITH LUV, in general, has become its own community within the ARMY fanbase.”

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TOLKIEN, J.R.R. (1892-1973). Autograph manuscript, headed ''The Lord of the Rings III,'' being late revisions to Return of the King, book six, chapter two, n.p. [spring 1955].

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In other words, all the corrections and comments made in red ballpoint, black ballpoint, and pencil are in fact in Tolkien's hand.

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In our experience, the highest frame rates in Rage are encountered inside of towns and structures. Even low-end graphics hardware can manage 60 FPS at 1080p in these areas. So, we went outside to the wilderness in order to generate our worst-case numbers.

With a 60 FPS cap, it's more important to spend time playing with low-end hardware, which is able to tell us how much graphics processing muscle is needed before hitting that magic number. Of course, we’ll increase texture, anisotropic, and anti-aliasing detail to see what happens when we make things more difficult for the GPU.

Test Hardware
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge)Overclocked to 4 GHz, 6 MB L3 Cache, power-saving settings enabled, Turbo Boost disabled.
MotherboardMSI P67A-GD65, Intel P67 Chipset
MemoryOCZ DDR3-2000, 2 x 2 GB, at 1338 MT/s, CL 9-9-9-20-1T
Hard DriveWestern Digital Caviar Black 750 GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache, SATA 3Gb/sSamsung 470 Series SSD 256 GB, SATA 3Gb/s
Graphics CardsGeForce GT 430 DDR3GeForce GT 240 GDDR5GeForce GTX 550 Ti GDDR5GeForce GTX 460 1 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 560 Ti GDDR5GeForce GTX 570 GDDR5Radeon HD 6450 DDR3Radeon HD 5570 DDR3Radeon HD 6570 GDDR5Radeon HD 5770 GDDR5Radeon HD 6970 GDDR5
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  • MasterMace
    This is an instance of a company making a game for consoles and expecting it to work in PCs. This company will be abandoned by PC gamers, and it will settle in on the consoles. Eventually, they'll die off or change, just like the Red Faction series. This applies for the graphics and the quality of the game.
  • crisan_tiberiu
    Piracy doesn't make the PC world very atractive. Thats the only reason why game developers turn away from the PC, they dont make money.
  • amirp
    I believe there may be a typo, 6570 should be 6670 in the charts? I'm not sure though.
  • dragonsqrrl
    mmmm... poorly optimized console ports... does a body good.
  • dbonetrain
    9521547 said:
    Piracy doesn't make the PC world very atractive. Thats the only reason why game developers turn away from the PC, they dont make money.

    Carmack said they make for the consoles is for money. You are mistaken if you think piracy is what drives developers away from the PC.
  • cbeermann
    Any1 know why its running so bad on my PC. I have a Phenom X2 550 3.1 Ghz, and a HD 6950.According to this review, it should be able to run it fine but whenever im playing my CPU is at 100% and it runs choppy as hell. I've installed the new RAGE performance driver, as well as that 11.10 thing, neither helped. I added the cache folder for textures, still choppy. I am curious however, that since I have my Steam on my K drive and not on my C if that could be screwing with the cache, anyone know?
  • dlsmoker
    You missing that console games too are downloaded "illegal", don't think that only pc games are.
  • Darkerson
    This game was a big "meh" for me. Hopefully they do a better job on the next game they make.
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    a phenom dual core is enough.
  • killerclick
    MasterMaceThis company will be abandoned by PC gamers
    You mean Bethesda? I've already broken up with my girlfriend so I don't have to make up illnesses when Skyrim comes out on 11.11.11

    Or did you mean id Software? In which case you're right, they can go to hell.


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What makes classroom teaching pedagogically unique?

This is the second of five posts on choosing appropriate modes of delivery, part of Chapter 10 of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. The first looked at the wide range of options now available to instructors, from face-to-face teaching to blended to fully online. This post looks at what we know both from best practices and research about the pedagogical differences, and suggests that no one mode of delivery is inherently better than another. What we need to know are the conditions or circumstances that are needed for the mode to succeed.

Many surveys have found that a majority of faculty still believe that online learning or distance education is inevitably inferior in quality to classroom teaching. In fact, there is no scientifically-based evidence to support this opinion. At the same time, although the technology keeps changing, we can learn a great deal from earlier developments in distance education. Fully online learning is, after all, just another version of distance education.

The influence of distance education on online learning

A great deal has been written about distance education (see, for instance, Wedemeyer, 1981; Keegan, 1990; Holmberg, 1995; Moore and Kearsley, 1996; Peters, 2002; Bates, 2005; Evans et al., 2008) but in concept, the idea is quite simple: students study in their own time, at the place of their choice (home, work or learning centre), and without face-to-face contact with a teacher. However, students are usually ‘connected’, usually today through the Internet, with an instructor, adjunct faculty or tutor who provides learner support and student assessment. (For another definition of distance education – especially relevant to economically developing countries – see Commonwealth of Learning.)

Distance education has been around a very long time. It could be argued that in the Christian religion, St. Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians was an early form of distance education (53-57 AD). The first distance education degree was offered by correspondence by the University of London (UK) in 1858. Students were mailed a list of readings, and took the same examination as the regular on-campus students. If students could afford it, they hired a private tutor, but the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens called it the People’s University, because it provided access to higher education to students from less affluent backgrounds. The program still continues to this day, but is now called the University of London International Programmes, with more than 50,000 students worldwide. (As an aside, the University of London was primarily established in 1838 to set a common examination system between its different colleges, thus separating teaching and assessment – perhaps the earliest example of ‘disaggregation’ in education.)

In North America, historically many of the initial land-grant universities, such as Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of New Mexico in the USA, and Memorial University, University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia in Canada, had state- or province-wide responsibilities, As a result these institutions have a long history of offering distance education programs, mainly as continuing education for farmers, teachers, and health professionals scattered across the whole state or province. These programs have now been expanded to cover undergraduate and professional masters students. Australia is another country with an extensive history of both k-12 and post-secondary distance education.

Qualifications received from most of these universities carry the same recognition as degrees taken on campus. For instance, the University of British Columbia, which has been offering distance education programs since 1936, makes no distinction on student transcripts between courses taken at a distance and those taken on campus, as both kinds of students take the same examinations.

Another feature of distance education, pioneered by the British Open University in the 1970s, but later adopted and adapted by North American  universities that offered distance programs, is a course design process, based on the ADDIE model, but specially adapted to serve students learning at a distance. This places a heavy emphasis on defined learning outcomes, production of high quality multimedia learning materials, planned student activities and engagement, and strong learner support, even at a distance. As a result, universities that offered distance education programs were well placed for the move into online learning in the 1990s. These universities have found that in general, students taking the online programs do almost as well as the on-campus students (course completion rates are usually within 5-10 per cent of the on-campus students – see Ontario, 2011), which is a little surprising as the distance students often have full-time jobs and families.

It is important to acknowledge the long and distinguished pedigree of distance education from internationally recognised, high quality institutions, because commercial diploma mills, especially in the USA, have given distance education an unjustified reputation of being of lower quality. As with all teaching, distance education can be done well or badly. However, where distance education has been professionally designed and delivered by high quality public institutions, it has proved to be very successful, meeting the needs of many working adults, students in remote areas who would otherwise be unable to access education on a full-time basis, or on-campus students wanting to fit in an extra course or with part-time jobs whose schedule clashes with their lecture schedule. However, universities, colleges and even schools have been able to do this only by meeting high quality design standards.

At the same time, there has also been a small but very influential number of campus-based teachers and instructors who quite independently of distance education have been developing best practices in online or computer-supported learning. These include Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff who were experimenting with online or blended learning as early as the late 1970s at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Marlene Scardamalia and Paul Bereiter at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, and Linda Harasim at Simon Fraser University, who all focused particularly on online collaborative learning and knowledge construction within a campus or school environment.

There is also plenty of evidence that teachers and instructors in many schools, colleges and universities new to online learning have not adopted these best practices, instead merely transferring lecture-based classroom practice to blended and online learning, often with poor or even disastrous results.

 What the research tells us

There have been thousands of studies comparing face-to-face teaching to teaching with a wide range of different technologies, such as televised lectures, computer-based learning, and online learning, or comparing face-to-face teaching with distance education. With regard to online learning there have been several meta-studies, that is, studies that have combined the results of many ‘well-conducted scientific’ studies, i.e. studies that used the matched comparisons or quasi-experimental method (Means et al., 2011; Barnard et al., 2014). Nearly all such ‘well-conducted’ meta-studies find no or little significant difference in the teaching methods, in terms of the effect on student learning or performance. For instance, Means et al. (2011), in a major meta-analysis of research on blended and online learning for the U.S. Department of Education, reported:

In recent experimental and quasi-experimental studies contrasting blends of online and face-to-face instruction with conventional face-to-face classes, blended instruction has been more effective, providing a rationale for the effort required to design and implement blended approaches. When used by itself, online learning appears to be as effective as conventional classroom instruction, but not more so.

Means et al. attributed the slightly better performance of blended learning to students spending more time on task. This highlights a common finding, that where differences have been found, they are often attributed to factors other than the mode of delivery. Tamim et al. (2011) identified ‘well-conducted’ comparative studies covering 40 years of research. Tamim et al. found there is a slight tendency for students who study with technology to do better than students who study without technology. However, the measured difference was quite weak, and the authors state:

it is arguable that it is aspects of the goals of instruction, pedagogy, teacher effectiveness, subject matter, age level, fidelity of technology implementation, and possibly other factors that may represent more powerful influences on effect sizes than the nature of the technology intervention.’

Research into any kind of learning is not easy; there are just so many different variables or conditions that affect learning in any context. Indeed, it is the variables we should be examining, not just the technological delivery. In other words, we should asking a question first posed by Wilbur Schramm as long ago as 1977:

What kinds of learning can different media best facilitate, and under what conditions?

In terms of making decisions then about mode of delivery, we should be asking, not which is the best method overall, but:

What are the most appropriate conditions for using face-to-face, blended or fully online learning respectively?

Fortunately, there is a great deal of research and best practice that provides guidance on that question, at least with respect to blended and online learning (see, for instance, Anderson, 2008; Picciano et al., 2013; Halverson et al., 2013; Zawacki-Richter and Anderson, 2014.) Ironically, we shall see that what we lack is good research on the unique potential of face-to-face teaching in a digital age when so much can also be done just as well online.

Challenging the supremacy of face-to-face teaching

Although there has been a great deal of mainly inconclusive research comparing online learning with face-to-face teaching in terms of student learning, there is very little evidence or even theory to guide decisions about what is best done online and what is best done face-to-face in a blended learning context, and or about the circumstances when fully online learning is in fact a better option than classroom teaching. Generally the assumption appears to have been that face-to-face teaching is the default option by virtue of its superiority, and online learning is used only when circumstances prevent the use of face-to-face teaching, such as when students cannot get to the campus, or when classes are so large that interaction with students is at a minimum.

However, online learning has now become so prevalent and effective in so many contexts that it is time to ask:

what are the unique characteristics of face-to-face teaching that make it pedagogically different from online learning?

It is possible of course that there is nothing pedagogically unique about face-to-face teaching, but given the rhetoric around ‘the magic of the campus’ (Sharma, 2013) and the hugely expensive fees associated with elite campus-based teaching, or indeed the high cost of publicly funded campus-based education, it is about time that we had some evidence-based theory about what makes face-to-face teaching so special.

As someone who has devoted a great deal of his working life in distance education and online learning, I am probably not the best person to make this particular argument, and indeed the following is based mainly on the known limitations of online learning rather than the strengths of face-to-face teaching. I therefore throw open the challenge to all those who are passionate about the benefits of face-to-face teaching to help me out with the following sections.

For once, I am going to ask you to hold your comments (unless you are particularly incensed about something in the post) until you see the following posts.

Up next

The next post in the series is the first of three in which I propose a method of deciding between modes of delivery, based on student needs, pedagogical differences and the resources available. In the next post I will argue that student characteristics are the most important criterion for deciding on mode of delivery.

Anderson, A. (ed.) (2008) The Theory and Practice of Online Learning Athabasca AB: Athabasca University Press

Bates, A.W. (2005) Technology, e-Learning and Distance Education London/New York: Routledge

Evans, T., Haughey, M. and Murphy, D. (2008) International Handbook of Distance Education Bingley UK: Emerald Publishing

Halverson, L. R., Graham, C. R., Spring, K. J., & Drysdale, J. S. (2012). ‘An analysis of high impact scholarship and publication trends in blended learning’ Distance Education, Vol. 33, No. 3

Keegan, D. (ed.)  (1990) Theoretical Principles of Distance Education London/New York: Routledge

Means, B. et al. (2009) Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies Washington, DC: US Department of Education

Moore, M. and Kearsley, G. (1996) Distance Education: A Systems View Belmont CA: Wadsworth

Ontario (2011) Fact Sheet Summary of Ontario eLearning Surveys of Publicly Assisted PSE Institutions Toronto: Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Peters, O. (2002) Distance Education in Transition: New Trends and Challenges Oldenberg FGR: Biblothecks und Informationssystemder Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenberg

Picciano, A., Dziuban, C. and & Graham, C. (eds.), Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2. New York: Routledge, 2013

Schramm, W. (1977) Big Media, Little Media Beverley Hills CA/London: Sage

Sharma, S. (2013) The Magic of the Campus Boston MA: LINC 2013 conference (recorded presentation)

Tamim, R. et al. (2011) ‘What Forty Years of Research Says About the Impact of Technology on Learning: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis and Validation Study’ Review of Educational Research, Vol. 81, No. 1

Wedemeyer, C. (1981) Learning at the Back Door: Reflections on Non-traditional Learning in the Lifespan Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

Zawacki-Richter, O. and Anderson, T. (eds.) (2014) Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda Athabasca AB: AU Press, pp. 508

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Victor Muller comments:

At the age of 18 I acquired my first Zagato bodied car: a Lancia Flavia Zagato rally car in dire need of restoration. Ever since that date, some 30 years ago, I have been in love with the unique and distinctive designs penned by this noble design house. Many Zagato bodied cars have followed the Lancia Flavia and I am proud to still have a number of
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The co-operation and partnership between Spyker and Zagato is entirely logical if one looks at the rich heritage both companies share in the fields of aviation and racing. A better fit of aesthetics, skill and passion would be hard to find.

Two brothers, Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, coach builders in Amsterdam, built their first Benz-engined motor car in 1898 and won immediate acclaim for the supreme craftsmanship of their bodywork. In the period prior to World War I, a worldwide slump in the luxury car market meant that Spyker had to diversify its production, and so it merged with the Dutch Aircraft Factory N.V. This combined company evolved its business model and started developing and building aircraft. After the war Spyker was able to return to its roots and resumed car production in 1919.

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True to its motto ’Nulla tenaci invia est via’ (’For the tenacious no road is impassable’), Spyker continued building record-breaking cars which now featured extensive aircraft influences, including sophisticated aerodynamics absorbed from the aircraft building years.

Similarly, Zagato was established at the end of World War I by Ugo Zagato, putting aircraft industry construction techniques to use in the expanding market for passenger vehicles. Just like the Spyker cars, Zagato’s cars were advanced in design and became synonymous with light weight and excellent aerodynamics.

Spyker C12 Zagato: the rationale

Victor Muller continues: "Andrea and myself have known each other for many years and met at events such as Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza on numerous occasions. Last April, at Villa d’Este, we sat down and discussed the increasing market demand for truly one-off and limited edition super sport cars. In a certain sense the modern market is not unlike the 1930’s, where wealthy customers would order exotic bespoke designs from high-end coach builders on Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Delage, Delahaye and Isotta-Fraschini chassis, just to mention a few."

Zagato established its name by designing exquisite cars for Lancia, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari in particular, but it is probably the Aston Martin DB4 Zagato that best represents the artistic expertise of what they do. Andrea and I agreed to meet each other in Arese and to define what a Spyker Zagato would have to embody. In view of market demand, it was decided to use Spyker’s flagship chassis, the C12, as a basis - its space-frame being exceptionally suitable for crafting a bespoke body onto."

After the initial design meeting in July 2006, it became apparent that Spyker would succeed in acquiring the Midland Formula 1 team and design activities were suspended until early October when that transaction had been consummated. "With the F1 team part of the Spyker Group it was decided that the C12 Zagato should embody as many of the Formula 1 design cues as practically possible so as to set a new design vision for future Spyker road car models."

In the months following, Spyker and Zagato finalized the design and the manufacturing of the C12 Zagato was entrusted to Spyker’s long time fabrication partner, Coventry Prototype Panels in Coventry, UK. Under the guidance of Brendan O’Toole, CPP’s Managing Director, and Étienne Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, Spyker’s Project Manager, the vehicle was built by a dedicated Spyker and CPP crew from aluminium in an amazing 4 weeks.

Spyker C12 Zagato: the vehicle

The Spyker C12 Zagato is an all aluminium rear wheel drive sports car, based on the Spyker C12 Spyder. The C12 is powered by the 6.0 liter, 12 cylinder, 500 bph W12 engine from Volkswagen AG and accelerates from 0-100 km (0-60 mph) in 3.8 seconds. The Spyker C12 Zagato is equipped with a six-speed manual or automatic gear box with F1 style shifting, Chronoswiss instruments and a Zagato designed full leather interior with brushed aluminium instrument panel. The C12 Zagato has an aluminium body with stainless steel roof rails and has many F1 derived design details such as an F1 nose, air scoop, chimneys, mirrors, rain light, fuel flap and diffuser. It has a panoramic roof that features the Double Bubble, a typical Zagato style element. The Spyker C12 Zagato has a length of 4.5 m, a width of 2.02 m excluding mirrors, a height of 1.25 m and weighs 1480 kg. The fuel tank capacity is 70 litres (15.4 gallons). Top speed is 310 km/h (193 mph).

"The Spyker and Zagato Atelier brands perfectly align because of their common aeronautical origins and because of the shared passion of Victor Muller and myself for sports cars" states Andrea Zagato. "Nevertheless Victor, before starting this extraordinary adventure with Spyker, was a Zagato collector owning cars like the Flaminia SS and TZ. Together with our neo-classical approach, this Spyker C12 Zagato shows the capabilities of Zagato Atelier for innovative and non conventional solutions."

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Norihiko Harada, designer of the new Spyker C12 Zagato, adds: "All Spyker cars have their own very unique style: the aeronautical retrospective style co-exists with craftsmanship and elegance. The new Zagato body becomes even more unique, aggressive and sensual at the same time. It features a new double bubble panoramic roof , F1 influenced nose and air intakes, chimney and a "coda tronca", the typical Zagato cut off tail end.

Maintaining Spyker’s styling philosophy, Zagato design put all these elements together and created an extremely stimulating example of contemporary exotic high performance sports car by using typical modern Zagato lines which started from the Raptor Zagato in 1996."

The Spyker C12 Zagato will retail for EUR 495,000 (excluding any taxes, ex factory).

Spyker F8-VII: 2007 livery reveal

Besides the C12 Zagato, Spyker also presented on their Geneva International Motor Show stand the Spyker F8-VII Formula One car. The F8-VII made its first public appearance in front of a huge crowd of media and sponsor guests on February 5, 2007 at the Silverstone race circuit in the UK in a bright orange launch colour. The car displayed at Geneva carried the new revised livery for the 2007 season and revealed how the two F1 cars will look when they line up on the Melbourne grid for the first race of the season on March 18th.

Managing director and team principal Colin Kolles predicts a ’transition year’ for the team, with a focus in the early part of the year on improved reliability and performance, before a big step forward with a revised B-spec car for the second part of the year.

The team has been preparing for the season with an exclusive two-day shakedown at Silverstone and extensive testing in both Valencia and Barcelona. On March 1, 2007, it concluded its final day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain. Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer, commented: "We’ve now finished our pre-season testing programme - an excellent effort from all back at the factory and at the track. Although we know we are lacking some pace, I think we can be very proud of the improvements we’ve made. We now go to Melbourne in good shape aiming for a strong and consistent performance, so well done to all, including both our race drivers, for all their hard work over the testing period."

Michiel Mol, Director of Formula One Racing explains: "We know that we’re not going to see overnight results here. It’s not going to be a short turn around and we have to be realistic about what we can achieve. You cannot change a team in a year, you cannot expect to have podiums in our first season. We have to manage those expectations; we want to aim for points in the latter part of the year. For us, 2007 will be a transition year as we’re laying the foundations for 2008. We’ll see Mike Gascoyne’s influence start to kick in mid-season so the real results of our involvement won’t be seen until next year."

The 17-race season will get underway in Melbourne, Australia, from 16 - 18 March 2007. Spyker will challenge its rivals in this most demanding motor-sport environment with the support of its many partners

Also today Spyker revealed the first pre-production Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris, the industry’s first Super Sports Utility Vehicle (SSUV), the prototype of which was unveiled last year at the Geneva International Motor Show. After extensive endurance, durability and weather testing in the course of the coming summer, production of the D12 will commence in December 2007 for deliveries beginning in Europe in Spring 2008 at an estimated price point of EUR 235,000.

The SSUV was named after the historic Peking to Paris raid of 1907, the most gruelling automotive challenge of its time, in which a Frenchman, Charles Goddard, entered his almost standard, factory-backed, Spyker 18/22 HP. On 10 June 1907 five cars set out on what was to become an unprecedented challenge to man and machine, to prove that the motor-car had come of age and was capable of carrying men and equipment from the farthest reaches of the world back to Paris. Goddard finished second after crossing terrain where, for the most part, no car had ever dared to go. The D12 SSUV has been named in honour of this historic achievement and to celebrate the pioneering spirit it embodied: the desire to chart uncharted territory.

Exactly 100 years later history is about to repeat itself. From June 10 to August 10, 2007 a Spyker vehicle will once again compete in a Peking to Paris raid. The authentic 1907 Spyker owned and driven by Stijnus Schotte of The Netherlands will set off from eastern China to retrace the tyre tracks of Charles Goddard and arrive in Paris on August 10th having proved once again the quality and driveability of Spyker cars and the passion of their owners. A D12 SSUV will be present at both the start line and the finish in Paris to portray the new breed of Spyker vehicle and to celebrate a new century of daring and dramatic Spyker cars.

Partnership Spyker and Rio Prestige Performance

Spyker Cars, its UK representative Spyker of Pangbourne and Rio Prestige Performance are delighted to announce their partnership. The Spyker C8 Spyder was the natural choice to join the stable of vehicles available to members of this private super club - The RPM Club. As innovators in that field, and the first company in the world with the vision to offer hypercars to its members. RPM has much in common with Spyker and looks forward to a long and rewarding relationship. "Spyker embodies the essence of the RPM Club - Innovation, exclusivity, passion and power" says Mr Edward Legge, General Manager of Rio Prestige Performance.

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Engine W12
Capacity 5998 cc
Power 368 kW (500 bhp)
Torque 610 Nm
Maximum revolutions 6500 rpm
Options Compressor version 650 bhp

Sizes and Weights
KERB weight 1480 kg
Wheelbase 2680 mm
Front track 1574 mm
Rear track 1728 mm
Length 4505 mm
Width (ex mirrors) 2031 mm
Height 1250 mm
Fuel tank capacity 70 litres ( 15.4 gallon)

Top speed 320 km/h (200 mph)
Acceleration 0- 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds
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Expected date of introduction: March 2008

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The Spyker C12 Zagato is equipped with a six-speed manual or automatic gear box with F1 style shifting, Chronoswiss instruments and a Zagato designed full leather interior with brushed aluminum instrument panel.

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beautiful car incredible accelleration for the amount of power

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10:00 Guided tour of Aphrodisias
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Drive back to Pamukkale
14:00 Guided Pamukkale & Hierapolis Tour
18:30 End of the tour & drop off to your hotel.

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  • All transportation
  • Lunch
  • All entrance fees
  • English or Japanese Speaking Tour Guide

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We are offering for sale a 50 sqm fully furnished apartment in district 3., in Kiscsillag street, on Törökkő. It is situated in a condominium building on the ground floor. The flat consists of a living room with a open plan kitchen with dining area, a bedroom, a bathroom and a toilet, and a 9 sqm patio. Public transportation connections are nice, bus number 160, 260, 260A, tram 17. This is a quiet, D-DNY oriented. Great opportunity for investment due to its perfect location and nicedesign. Windows are facing to the garden.

District 3. - Óbuda, Békásmegyer

The district is home to the ruins of the ancient Roman settlement Aquincum, where an amphitheatre was excavated. This part of the city includes the entire island of Óbuda, which was home to the former Roman governor's palace. Those looking for recreation on the banks of the Danube should not miss the restaurants on the "Római part".

This area could be interesting for students: Óbuda University, Milton Friedman University (formerly Sigismund King University), International Business School (IBS), the Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT) or the Károli Gáspár Reformed University BTK Institute of Psychology are all in the district.

On Bécsi Road, the Stop Shop and the Eurocenter mall are waiting for those who wish to relax or wish go to the cinema. The H5 suburban train line takes you all the way to Szentendre, which is a pleasant weekend program. On this road you can find the Omsk Lake and the Lupa Lake as well. The connection to the Pest side is provided by the Árpád Bridge, and further on the M0 by Megyeri Bridge.

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  • Ref. no.: 560812
  • size: 50 sqm
  • Bedrooms: 1
  • Location: dist. 3
  • View: Garden
  • Floor: Ground floor
  • Balcony: Yes
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people in shopping mall - analyze customer movementPeople counting systems are doing for customer movement analyzation what smartphones did for communication. It’s a game changer that will revolutionize the way you currently look at your traffic flow, traffic trends and conversion rates.

Data is invaluable in the business decision-making process. Simple metrics like the amount of people who walk through your door each day, use your restroom facilities, or visit a specific area of your space can give you insight into fundamental business questions like:

  • How many employees do I need to schedule for a shift?
  • What are my security needs throughout the day?
  • At what time should I restock and check restrooms?
  • When is the optimal time to perform routine maintenance?
  • Where should I set up new displays?
  • What time can I turn down the heating or air conditioning?

Being able to accurately plan and predict the answers to those types of questions ultimately translates into tangible cost savings by eliminating overspending, overstaffing, or over allocating resources.

Identify Traffic Flow
The first step in determining customer movement within your building is to understand how traffic flows in and out. Use a people counter to monitor entrances and exits to start piecing together your traffic flow map and identify your most frequently used and least used doorways.

Perhaps you have a pretty good idea of where heavily trafficked areas are inside your stores but using a strategically placed people counter will give you concrete data to back up, or perhaps blow up, your theory. You may find the new display you thought was driving traffic, really isn’t performing like you imagined giving you the opportunity to make tweaks or rearrange.

Track Traffic Volume Trends
Once you get a baseline for measuring traffic flow you can begin analyzing customer movement trends. People counters not only measure volume but can identify slow traffic times and heavy periods by hour, day, week, month and year through reporting and analytics.

Plan staffing and anticipate inventory stock to accommodate for busy periods and plan extra promotions or events to drive traffic during seasonal slow downs. You can even use the data to perform A/B testing to determine customer responses through increases or decreases in traffic volume.

Calculate Your Conversion Ratio
Compare foot traffic data from a specified period of time to POS sales data to calculate your conversion ratio. This will help you quantify how many people you are converting from browsers to buyers.

Ultimately it is about ROI. You don’t want to waste time and resources on displays that don’t drive sales. When setting up new displays, use a people counter to measure how many people entered the new display compared to the sales figures for the product displayed.

Knowing your conversion ratio with the help of a people counter gives managers and owners visibility into the most efficient and profitable displays. Conversion ratio data can also be used to:

  • Offer sales incentives to employees to get your conversion ratio up.
  • Pinpoint time periods when conversions rates drop and take steps to address downturns.
  • Determine your return on investment (ROI) for an event, promotion, or special program.

Customer Movement Data Benefits are Invaluable
Not using a people counting system to analyze traffic flow and volume is a little like using an abacus to do math. It can be done, but why would you want to?

Not to mention, the best benefits of people counting increase over time over time as you accumulate layers of data over weeks, months and years to identify high level variables in your traffic patterns. If used well, insight into historical customer movement data is going to ultimately affect both sides of your balance sheet by decreasing expenses and increasing revenue.


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TJwow webinar recording May 2016 - sales

Written by Jo Cook on 25 May 2016 in Video

The May 2016 recording of the #TJwow webinar all about sales training

Wednesday 25th May - Who’s responsible for sales training?

Is it L&D that should be developing learning solutions for sales departments, or specialist external providers?

Watch a 4 min Adobe Connect reocrding with Tim Royds (@TimRoyds), talking about different options for sales training

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In 2020, Transitions Film Festival heads south for the first time for a night of impact, hosted by the City of Port Phillip.  Join us south of the river, get inspired, and learn how you can be part of the climate conversation and action.

The night features impact shorts and is followed by a podcasted discussion hosted by Climactic Radio.

Rising sea levels threaten to destroy the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. Anote’s Ark follows Kiribati’s then-President, Anote Tong on his mission to find a way to protect his nation’s people and bring international attention to the country’s existential dilemma.

The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, population of 100,000, is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise.

While Kiribati’s President Anote Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many Kiribati are already seeking safe harbour overseas.

Set against the backdrop of international climate and human rights negotiations, Anote’s struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the extraordinary fate of Tiemeri, a young mother of six, who fights to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake is the survival of Tiemeri’s family, the Kiribati people, and 4,000 years of Kiribati culture.

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Johannesburg, fondly known as Jo’burg or Jozi, is a dichotomy of culture, like much of South Africa itself. Despite the gaps, it proves to have a richness in history and new modern districts full of things to do. As the host of the 2010 World Cup, many areas have been revamped into cool spaces with new purpose. The people are friendly and the recent improvements in transportation help Johannesburg travel be a great addition to a South Africa visit.

The area gained its wealth originally from gold and diamond mining. It has grown to be the third-largest city on the African continent, and the only one not near a major body of water. The country has eleven national languages, and the city mirrors that diversity to a T. Though English is the most common, Zulu, Afrikaans, and Xhosa are spoken along with others. Travel to Johannesburg offers new experiences for every kind of traveler.

Visitor should also be advised to take caution. Avoid walking around alone in parts of town at night, and ask locals for the safest places to withdraw money. Take care of your belongings, and keep a wary eye.

Things Not to Miss in Johannesburg

• Cradle of Humankind
• The Magaliesberg
• Northern Suburbs
• Soweto and the South
• MuseuMAfricA
• National Cultural History Museum
• National Zoological Gardens
• Origins Centre

When to Go to Johannesburg

The best time to visit Johannesburg is May through August, when there is abundant sunshine during winter. Afternoon rainstorms are common in the summer. Though the winter is the sunniest time of year, it can get cold at night but is generally mild during the day. The average daytime temperature throughout the year is 78 degrees; it’s mild since the city is at a high elevation.

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2 Days Alice Springs Explorer

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Alice Springs to Kings Canyon tour highlights include Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon, travel to Uluru and view the beautiful Sunset whilst enjoying a glass of complimentary wine

2 Days Alice Springs Explorer
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Tour Highlights

  • Atila (Mt Conner)
  • See Uluru (Ayers Rock) at sunrise and sunset
  • Kata Tjuta (the Olgas), Valley of the Winds

Tour Info

Code AK-AK20
  • Short Break
Duration 2 Days
Price From $799

Vehicle Air-conditioned Coach
Suitability Open Age
Start Alice Springs @ 7.30 am
Finish Alice Springs @ 7.00 pm
Travel Insurance Required

Travelling south you'll stop to visit a camel farm where there is time for a short camel ride (own expense). Later, stop to view Atila (Mt. Conner), often mistaken for Uluru, before arriving at Ayers Rock Resort.

This afternoon join your Driver Guide for a tour around the base of Uluru. Continue to the Kuniya Walk, where you'll be escorted to the Mutitjulu Waterhole. View ancient rock art and learn about the Aboriginal and European history of the area. Visit the Uluru - Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre. Late afternoon, travel to the Uluru sunset viewing area. Witness and photograph the striking colour changes of Uluru at sunset while enjoying nibbles and sparkling wine.

Hotel: Outback Pioneer Hotel (Budget),

Desert Gardens Hotel (Standard)

or Sails in the Desert Hotel (Superior), Ayers Rock Resort.

$144 adult $72 child

After sunset, join us under the stars at our exclusive venue. Enjoy sparkling wine on arrival, then dine on a menu of steak, lamb sausages, chicken skewers and garlic prawns, salads and a tasty dessert. All accompanied by a selection of wines, beers and soft drinks. There's time for stargazing too (weather permitting).

Drive through sandhill country towards Kings Canyon, stopping for a breakfast at Kings Creek Station. Climb to the rim of the canyon for marvellous views of Watarrka National Park (for those with a good level of fitness). Continue the 3 hour walk around the canyon with your guide and learn about its geology. Alternatively, enjoy a more leisurely 1V hour walk along the boulder-strewn canyon creek bed.

Travel to Alice Springs, where your short break concludes.

Included Meals: Breakfast

  • Experienced Driver Guides
  • Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park Ticket
  • Experienced Driver Guides
  • Detailed and informative commentary
  • Travel in an air-conditioned coach
  • Return airport transfers- flight details to be provided 45 days prior to travel

What to bring

  • Comfortable walking shoes
  • Sunglasses, hat and sunscreen
  • Water bottle
  • Camera
  • Jacket in the cooler months

Fitness requirement

Low to moderate level of fitness required:

  • Uluru: Low level of fitness required. The Kuniya Walk is approximately 1 hour gentle walk on flat ground.
  • Kings Canyon: Good level of fitness required for three hour walk around the canyon’s rim.
  • Or low to moderate level of fitness required for the canyon floor walk.

  • Departs Daily, 7.00am from Alice Springs
  • Returns Day 2, 7.00pm (Oct-Mar) and 7.30pm (Apr-Sep) in Alice Springs
  • Standard and Superior Twin or Single accommodation upgrades are available on request.
  • A person, who must be 18 years and over, travelling alone, must pay the single room price. All prices are per person, land only.
  • Child and Concession rates are applicable on request.
  • As this Short Break departs at 7.00am, accommodation will need to be pre-booked for the previous night.
  • As this Short Break concludes after 7.00pm, accommodation will need to be pre-booked for tonight.
  • We will pick up the passengers form selected motel and Hotel with in the City CBD or with in the walking distance from your hotel.

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Relish best of Kanyakumari in its monuments & religious sites

Kanyakumari is a religious city that is located on the southernmost tip of the nation where the mainland of the India literally ends, and then starts the vast sea. The city falls under the state of Tamil Nadu and also shares its borders with Kerala state on the west and north-west side. Whereas, towards the north and the east, the city shares its borders with Tirunelveli district; the remaining borders of the city is shared with the ocean. Malayalam and Tamil are the most spoken languages here and the locals are adherent devotees of gods. Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, is at a distance of roughly 104 km and it takes two and half hours to cover the distance on a vehicle. The other cities that are situated close to Kanyakumari are Nagercoil, Kalakkad, and Poovar. It is also the city that shares close association with 19th century saint Swami Vivekananda. He visited the city while he was travelling across India, preaching and spreading the message of peace and world brotherhood.

The history of Kanyakumari also consist a large fragment where it has been associated with trade and commerce. Being a major city located in the southernmost coast of India, the city has been a major trading port in the medieval era. Other than that, the city also served as the gateway to India; it is the entry point from where the routes to different cities in southern India branch apart. The city is also a culturally rich city. Under the reign of different rulers/kings, including Cholas, Cheras, Pandyas, Nayaks etc. the city flourished and so did the art and culture. The richness of the city’s culture and art is reflected in the ancient temples and festivals of the city. The most celebrated festivals in the city are Navaratri, Chaitra Purnima, and the yearly festivals of the Catholic Churches. Besides, if one is an enthusiast about the culture, he ought to visit a theatre or cultural centre and watch Kathakali, the traditional dance form of the region.

As far as tourism is in consideration, the city is replete of the sightseeing spots and other allures. Of the most prominent tourist spots the Thiruvalluvar Statue is one major attraction. It is a large monument that is erected on a perfect spot. The monument is a statue of saint Tiruvalluvar, a renowned Tamil poet. The statue is so big that it is easily visible from a distance. Besides, there are no other large monuments or structures near to the statue. The statue is one of the major attractions of the city and finds a place in almost all Kanyakumari tour packages. Meanwhile, the site of the statue is also popular for its apt location. It is said that the site is the place where Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and bay of Bengal meet. The site is perfect for photography and sightseeing. The sunrise and sunset in particular are most beautiful. Besides, the statue is also in proximity to the Vivekananda Rock, which is the other most significant tourist spot.

Simply put, Kanyakumari is one beautiful city where religion is the dominant aspect. Besides, it is also a fine destination for holidaying. Head to the city to explore its religious sites, sightseeing points, and other allures.

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StumpJumper Lures: Size 1

Length: 105mm

Interchangable Bibs: 8m & 3.5m bibs

Born on the Victorian banks of the mighty Murray River in 1986 . The first wooden StumpJumpers fitted the local cod fishing environment perfectly. They dug down deep, had great buoyancy to help them jump over the stumps (hence the name) and were as tough as nails. By 1991, freshwater fishing was a boom industry in this country and there was an almost insatiable demand for cod lures. The only way to satisfying it was to swap from the traditional wooden bodies to plastic. In recent times, the demand far outstripped supply and subsequently the lures are now being manufactured offshore. With the change to plastic, there was also an opportunity to introduce what is still about the world’s only truly successful interchangeable bib system.  As unlikely as it sounds, it’s an idea that really works.

The name Stumpjumper is synonymous with the key benefit of the design of this lure. Used correctly it will help you avoid the frustration of being snagged. Here’s how-when trolling, hold the tip close to the water and at a 90 degree angle out from the boat to allow the current and the in-built buoyancy of the lure to lift and clear the snag. With practice, the lure can be walked through most snags. Vary the length of line to stay in touch with the bottom. Bump the odd log and you know you are down there with the fish.

The proven swimming action and unbelievable anti-snag capabilities of the StumpJumper are combined with an exclusive patented snap-lock bib that lets you   instantly alter the lures action and characteristics by changing to different shaped bibs. With a choice of hot colours and flashing metallic finishes and subtle patterns, you can change the colours of the bibs to get the attention of the fish.Mix and match lure bibs and bodies in a system that makes StumpJumper the most innovative and effective lures available today.


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For an assortment of reasons, there was no exact Turtle student number back when Dennis hired his crew. Even among Turtles it is debated today. My paperback version of “The Complete TurtleTrader” comes out in February and the subtitle has been changed to say 23 Turtles on the cover. That is the common number thrown around after all these years, but if I had my way I would have said “20+” instead of “23”. Call me anal or call me picky, but all aspiring writers should know that publishers often take steps that authors are not completely on board with! Oddly, the areas where publishers always get mucked up in are book titles and book cover design. Generally, they steer clear of what’s between the covers. I could definitely write a book on writing and publishing a book because some of the back story you could not make up.

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