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X-ray study on Indian lignite

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X-ray powder diffraction photographs of four lignite samples from the south Arcot district and one from the Palana field are presented. Diffuse diffraction bands at 3.5 A and 2.12 A were observed in all cases. Additional well-defined lines at 4.15 A and 3.76 A were shown to be due to montan wax.

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Thomson, J.G., 1924: Cultures of malarial parasites from Rhodesia and their relation to blackwater fever. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine London, 18: 8

McAdams, L.R.; McRuer, R.N.; Goodman, J.W., 1990: Liquid crystal optical routing switch. The design and experimental results of a new 2 x 2 optical routing switch based on liquid crystal is reported. The switch uses nematic liquid crystal for polarization beamsplitting and ferroelectric liquid crystal for polarization rotation. The po...

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LDS Church: 21-year-old missionary has died in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, Africa, Oct. 22, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday morning that a 21-year-old missionary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has died after a brief illness.

“We are saddened to share news of the passing of a young missionary,” said a news release from the Church. “Elder Hermann Keredjim Mwanken passed away Monday after a brief illness.”

He had been serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mbuji-Mayi Mission since November 2017, the news release said. Mwanken is from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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“We pray that his family and loved ones will feel comforted and supported at this difficult time,” the news release said.

No further details were given of the illness.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly called Zaire, is located in Central Africa, north of Zambia and west of Tanzania.

Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information is made available.

  1. Always so saddened to hear the passing of young Elders or any Missionaries . May the family feel of the Love our Father in Heaven with them always.

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I’ve been a chronic weed smoker for 6 years – rapper D-Black’s manager confesses

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Young aspiring politician and business manager for rapper D-Black, John Hermit has disclosed that he has been a ‘chronic’ weed smoker for six years.

But after considering the effects it has had on his life, he decided to call it quits.

According to him, he was ‘so obsessed with weed and loved it, and thought it brought him so much joy and happiness.’

John, who has worked with Black Avenue Muzik label for years and recently declared his political aspiration, made this revelation through a Facebook post on Sunday, April 7.

To make his quitting beneficial to other ‘chronic’ smokers, he has written his experience in a book called “Breaking Up With Mary Jane” which is set to launch on Friday, April 26.

Narrating his story, he said: “I’ve been a chronic smoker for about six (6) years. I finally took a bold step to let go of Marijuana which in this book has been referred to as a lady named Mary Jane.

I was obsessed with her, I loved her and thought she brought me so much joy and happiness. I remember swearing I was going to smoke for the rest of my life.

Gratefully, it’s a different story now. Marijuana isn’t really good for our wellbeing. I hope this book is able to inspire someone and help them abandon our favourite friend and lover Mary Jane.

Although quitting marijuana use may seem impossible, I wish to help people understand they can do it without necessarily compromising their contemporary lifestyle.

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Update: First 134 and 241GHz QSO in Austria

We received from Gerald OE2IGL correction of our news about first-ever QSO on 134 and 241GHz in Austria. After checking some data, Rudi OE5VRL and Gerald OE2IGL made on the 8th of November 2019 the first-ever 241GHz QSO in Austria. On 134GHz Rudi OE5VRL made before a QSO with Michael DB6NT (19th May 2019). So Rudi and Gerald made not first-ever QSO on 134GHz in Austria, but they made a first QSO between two OE stations on this frequency.

Whatever guys made a big achievement!

So on the 19th of May Rudi OE5VRL and Michael DB6NT made first-ever 134 GHz QSO in Austria. Locators were JN87HW and JN88DB. They used the next equipment:

OE5VRL/3 Rudi:

  • 30 cm prime focus dish
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Best gifted education articles of 2016

So... 2016 has been a rough year. But on the bright side, there have been some great articles associated with gifted education. Here are some of my favorite thought-provoking reads from the past year, with a few snippets from each of them included below:

To help students learn, engage the emotions

"Great teachers understand that the best, most durable learning happens when content sparks interest, when it is relevant to a child's life, and when the students form an emotional bond with either the subject at hand or the teacher in front of them."

New analysis finds two measures boost K-12 academic achievement

"This latest study highlights the gap between empirical support for ability grouping and acceleration and the lack of policy support for implementing these techniques in the schools..."

A nation at risk: How gifted low-income kids are left behind

"It's hard to develop talent properly if you don't identify it early. A key part of the problem is that gifted low-income students are not being identified systematically."

How people learn to become resilient

"One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow?"

The best-kept secret in gifted education: Above-level testing

"The secret of above-level testing is really not much of a secret. It's used extensively at universities that have centers for gifted education. Unfortunately, it's not used much by schools. This secret is hiding in plain sight!"

Beyond the 10,000-hour rule: Experts disagree on the value of practice

"It's just not scientifically defensible at this point to say that training history does or could explain all the variation [in talent]..."

How to raise a genius: Lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children

"The research emphasizes the importance of nurturing precocious children, at a time when the prevailing focus in the United States and other countries is on improving the performance of struggling students..."

Grit is the buzzword among parents today. But are we focusing on the wrong thing?

"...our collective emphasis on grit is causing us to overlook other critical skills, and that oversight is having real consequences for our children."

America's report card: We're still ignoring low-income high-achievers

"The 'excellence gap,' then, is really two gaps. First, it means not enough high-achievers to assure the nation's long-term economic competitiveness, security, and cultural vitality. Second, it means not nearly enough disadvantaged kids reaching that level, suggesting not even a modicum of equal opportunity."

Rethinking intelligence: How does imagination measure up?

"An individual's goals within the learning classroom and excitement about a topic affect how he or she pursues learning, none of which is captured on IQ tests."

Why do fewer black students get identified as gifted?

"Whether the strategy is universal screening or better training of teachers to recognize giftedness among all students or another approach, our research suggests that school districts need to get serious about making sure that gifted services are accessible to all students who need them."

Should I grade-skip my gifted child?

"When gifted students who grade-skipped were compared to similarly gifted students who did not grade-skip, the grade-skipped students came out ahead in all academic categories."

Getting restless at the head of the class

"Every classroom has a few overachievers who perform above their grade level and don't feel challenged by the status quo. A new report suggests they are surprisingly common - in some cases, nearly half of all students in a given grade."

Our misguided effort to close the achievement gap is creating a new inequality: The 'play' gap

"And now, in a misguided effort to close the achievement gap, we are creating a new kind of inequality...We are planting the seeds of disengagement for the young children we want to see succeed and stay in school."

Thanks to all of you for following this blog. Wishing you all a wonderful New Year!


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New Year Message

First of all I hope you all had a special Christmas. Hilary and I wish you a peaceful and healthy New Year. The year for Hilary and I has had many highs and a couple of challenging setbacks health wise, but I'm sure you are all aware of those events, so let us focus on the highs, like me being in the studio with Mr Townshend in January and in March our wonderful visit to the Palace to have the MBE bestowed on me by Prince Charles.

In August Hilary and I along with our dear friend Martin Green were privileged to spend time with David Ison the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral where we donated a special replica lamp like the one that Holman Hunt had made for his iconic painting The Light of the World.

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In between there have been some lovely concerts and much music making with our dear friends Carrie Martin (right), Nick (below left) and Judith Hooper and Adam Parrish (below right).

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A huge thankyou once again to Sue Holton who works SO hard managing the website and putting the news page together so perfectly. A special thanks to my understanding agent Lee Noble who had to deal with venues where I had to cancel due to ill health. Of the three that were cancelled two have been re scheduled.

A very fine broadcaster Robin Valk interviewed me a while back for his Lives in Music series and I would like to share it with all who may be interested. Just click on the link below.

Lives in Music - Gordon Giltrap

Upcoming Projects for 2020

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As 2020 approaches there are many musical offerings from myself and Paul Ward plus the release of the compilation album WOMAN scheduled for a January release on Angel Air records.

There will also be news of the choir charity project for the Queen Elizabeth hospital. More of that as things progress, so watch this space.

New Music

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I have been busy composing of late and have written a new tune inspired by my recent stint in hospital. The piece is entitled THE WORK OF ANGELS dedicated to the work of the wonderful nurses here in the Midlands and throughout the country. What these amazing people do is above and beyond, and I was privileged to witness a young nurse comforting a young lady patient on the ward I was in. It was truly an act of compassion and the memory of it is fixed in my mind, and I felt compelled to compose something that hopefully will express what I was feeling emotionally at that moment in music.

The piece is complete and ready to record. To commit it to the recording process I decided to use a beautiful little instrument gifted to me by a certain guitarist from the band Queen. The instrument was designed by the American maker Joe Veillette called an Avente. It is a twelve string short scale guitar with all the strings strung in unison and has a sound like a very full mandolin. It’s so hard to describe a sound. I can only describe it as joyous!

Sharing Day

My last sharing day and concert at the Arts Centre Frodsham was a joy. My special afternoon guest was the brilliant guitarist Martin Pleass who demonstrated his beautiful Ralph Bown Harp guitar and related many stories related to Sir Paul McCartney and Pete Townshend.

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wrote the following on his Facebook page:

I was honoured to be a part of Gordon Giltrap’s Sharing Day at the Castle Arts Centre Frodsham yesterday. I managed to stop talking long enough to play a few tunes and the folks there were very kind and appreciative. I had received Gordon’s call whilst I was in Beijing stressed to the eyeballs and at a low ebb. Things are much better now, and having someone as esteemed as Gordon Giltrap MBE support my work has been a turning point. My USA pals…. Check out Gordons work as a guitarist / composer. He is also featured on the new WHO album.

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In the evening I played to a very enthusiastic crowd and my friend Michael Gough treated us to his lovely playing and sublime self-penned compositions.

Bramall Hall

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without my annual end of the year concert in the stunning Jacobean Bramall Hall. I'm delighted to say that my concerts there each year are well attended and apparently the concert was sold out within a few days of tickets going on sale. Here's to repeating the event next year, and there is talk of me doing a concert there in the summer to possibly coincide with a Sharing Day in the rooms above their lovely cafe! Once again watch this space.

That's it from me for 2019, Hilary and I send you love and peace from Sutton Coldfield.


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  • Describe the relationships between kernels and classical spatial interaction approaches, such as surfaces of potential
  • Outline the likely effects on analysis results of variations in the kernel function used and the bandwidth adopted
  • Explain why and how density estimation transforms point data into a field representation
  • Explain why, in some cases, an adaptive bandwidth might be employed
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  1. Configure PowerShellGet for use with PowerShell Gallery
  2. Install OctopusStepTemplateCi PowerShellGet\Install-Module -Name OctopusStepTemplateCi

  1. Install PsGet (new-object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("") | iex
  2. Import PsGet Import-Module PsGet
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  4. To confirm its installed, start a new powershell session, and run Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name OctopusStepTemplateCi, which will show the module

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City of Grand Junction Projects with Travel Restrictions

Annual Street Striping and Pavement Marking Project (Weather Permitting)

  • City crews will be striping the following streets this week:
    • 21 1/2 Road from I Road to Hwy 6 & 50
    • 22 Road from H 1/2 Road to Hwy 6 & 50
    • H Road from 21 1/2 Road to 22 Road
  • Please avoid crossing wet paint
  • Expect short delays.

2019 Asphalt Overlay Projects (Weather Permitting)

This week’s activities will include asphalt paving at the following locations:

  • Redlands Parkway from the Colorado River Bridge to River Road
  • Ramps to River Road will be beginning at Midnight the nights of the 28th and 29th and opening by 6am
  • Mainline paving will occur during normal business hours
  • 27 Road from Crossroads Blvd. to H Road
  • H Road from 26 1/2 Road to 27 1/2 Road

Traffic delays can be expected.

Riverfront Trail Closure – Las Colonias Park

  • Bike / Pedestrian Trail closed from the intersection of 27 ½ Road and C ½ Road to the Old Mill Bridge (Bridge leading to Eagle Rim Park)
  • Bridge access will remain open by way of detour
  • A well-marked detour will be in place
  • Anticipated completion – July.

Non-City of Grand Junction Projects with Travel Restrictions

32 Road Sewer Line Replacement Project – Clifton Sanitation District Project

  • Watch for utility construction (various locations) along 32 Road between I-70B and D Road
  • Please slow down through the work zones and obey traffic control signs and personnel
  • Motorists may experience intermittent lane closures and detours
  • Anticipated completion – September.

Vista Grande Drive (Redlands) between E Road and Highway 340 Water Line Upgrade – Ute Water Project

  • Vista Grande between E Road and Hwy 340 will be closed to through traffic 8am to 5pm, Monday – Friday
  • Detour route will be in place
  • Access will be provided for local residents
  • Anticipated completion – July.

29 ½ Road north of F ½ Road Water Line Replacement – Ute Water Project

  • Expect alternating one-lane traffic and moderate delays
  • Resident access will be maintained at all times
  • Anticipated completion – June.

3rd Street and Colorado Avenue Intersection, Conduit Repair – CenturyLink Project

  • Starting May 28, the intersection of 3rd Street and Colorado Avenue will be closed, if possible there may be limited north-south traffic on 3rd Street through the intersection.
  • Detour route will be in place
  • All business access will remain open
  • Anticipated Completion – Monday.

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Asking Too Much: Why Regional Human Rights Courts Cannot Tackle Corruption

Should regional human rights courts, such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), expand their mandates to explicitly address corruption? Commentators have explored the possibilities of incorporating corruption into the human rights framework (see here and here), and in a previous post, Kaitlin Beach specifically explored the benefits of utilizing regional human rights courts to address corruption (see here and here). Kaitlin emphasizes certain advantages that regional human rights courts have, mainly their flexibility in the types of reparations they can demand. This enables them to order structural anticorruption changes at the state level, as opposed to simply issuing individual indictments.

Despite these advantages, though, we should not get our hopes too high about the role these courts can play in the fight against corruption. Indeed, the IACHR – which Kaitlin points to as her lead example for the productive role that regional human rights bodies can play in combating corruption – is currently burdened by its lack of compliance mechanisms, inefficiency, and financial instability. These setbacks have caused the IACHR to have only limited success in combating human rights abuses. To expect an institution that is still struggling to fulfill its original mandate to also take on an additional mission is unrealistic, and adding this additional burden would further strain the limited resources that courts like the IACHR have available to remedy human rights abuses.

Consider the following limitations of the IACHR, which are characteristic of other regional human rights bodies as well, and which make it unlikely that these institutions will be able to do what some anticorruption advocates hope: Continue reading

Coming Along for the Ride: Regional Human Rights Courts Should Demand Government Measures to Affirmatively Address Corruption

In an earlier post, I discussed an order by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights demanding that Brazil investigate and report on prison guards’ corruption. Mandating that a country review its own corruption seems to be a new step for an international judicial body. The approach suggests a way to more closely integrate corruption-related concerns into international human rights work: including corruption-specific mandates within broader holdings. Other international adjudicative bodies, particularly regional human rights courts, should follow this model.

The idea of directly adjudicating corruption through an international court has been floated but also strongly opposed. Some corruption commentators advocate making grand corruption a crime against humanity that could be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). As discussed on this blog, Judge Mark Wolf has proposed an independent international anticorruption court, an idea that met with some tempered support and a good deal of opposition (see here, here, and Matthew’s concerns here). I agree that grand corruption does not belong in the ICC or an independent court. To reject grand corruption as a stand-alone offense to be prosecuted in international criminal tribunals is not, however, to reject that corruption should be addressed by international criminal tribunals where it is relevant. Existing bodies like regional human rights courts—the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), and the much newer African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as other, even younger human rights bodies in Southeast Asia and the Middle East—should explicitly address corruption-related issues within the context of the large volume of human rights adjudication already taking place. As other commentators have already discussed, these regional human rights courts can fold corruption into their respective mandates and generate meaningful corruption-related law (see here, here, and here). Indeed, regional human rights bodies are already well-placed to highlight corruption where it emerges and to respond appropriately to both the existing situation and future concerns:

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Guest Post: Targeted Sanctions and Corruption–Legal Obstacles to a Magnitsky Act for the EU

Anton Moiseienko, PhD candidate at the Criminal Justice Centre, Queen Mary University of London, contributes the following guest post:

So-called targeted sanctions—imposing travel restrictions on, or freezing the assets of, a select group of people—remain in vogue as an instrument of foreign policy and as a supplement to criminal justice in many areas, such as counterterrorism, and yet targeted sanctions have not been widely used in counteracting corruption. The United States, however, is a notable exception, with its Presidential Proclamation 7750, which authorizes the US Secretary of State to issue entry bans against corrupt foreign officials (subject to a caveat that such determinations must be informed by US national interests), and the Magnitsky Act of 2012, enacted by the US Congress in response to the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer-turned-whistleblower, in a Moscow prison after he reported the embezzlement of US$230 million by high-ranked law enforcement officers. Strictly speaking, the Magnitsky Act is a human rights law rather than an anticorruption law. It authorizes the US President to blacklist (1) the individuals responsible for the prosecution and death of Mr. Magnitsky, and (2) those responsible for “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” if committed against the persons trying to expose the illegal activity of Russian officials or against human rights activists. Yet pervasive corruption is at the heart of Magnitsky’s case, as it appears that a ring of corrupt officials was complicit in his death.

The European reaction to the Magnitsky Act was ambivalent. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution in 2012 calling upon member states to deny entry to, and freeze the assets of, the individuals on the US Magnitsky List––but to little effect. In contrast, a report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) deemed US-style sanctions to be “a means of last resort” and advised against them. But despite the lack of governmental action, the public debate in Europe is not over (see, for example, here and here). With EU sanctions against Russia expanding continuously, it may be time to revisit the European debate on whether the EU should draw up its own Magnitsky List, or perhaps adopt a more general policy on targeted anticorruption sanctions.

If the EU or its individual member states proceed with Magnitsky List-style sanctions, they will have to reckon with their human rights laws—including the EU Charger of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. The most important potential legal difficulties are as follows: Continue reading


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1. Sowislo, J. F., & Orth, U. (2012, June 25). Does Low Self-Esteem Predict Depression and Anxiety? A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies. Psychological Bulletin. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0028931

2. The Author is investigating the correlation between low self-esteem and depression. The author is trying to find out if low self-esteem can lead to depression and anxiety. The hypothesis of the study was to evaluate the models and vulnerability between low self-esteem and depression, by analyzing the available longitudinal data.

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3. The research conducted in this investigation was a longitudinal study because people were studied and restudied over a period of time. The longitudinal study design is good for looking at the effects or changes over a long period of time, usually as people age. In this case, the researcher conducted several attempts to correlate depression and low self-esteem. The researcher took a group of people who had low self-esteem and calculated the effects by showing several charts that were investigated for years which the researcher analyzed thoroughly covering 77 studies on depression and 18 studies on anxiety.

4. Sowislo analyzed 18 studies on anxiety and self-esteem and an additional 77 studies on depression and self-esteem. She looked at the vulnerability factors of each symptom and assessed the impact they had on each other. The data she reviewed were collected from individuals ranging in age from early childhood to late adulthood. The studies Sowislo chose were conducted using a variety of measurements and time periods, allowing for a broad review of data.

The final analyses revealed a strong relationship between self-esteem and depression but a weak one for depression and self-esteem. Specifically, Sowislo found that decreases in self-esteem were predictive of increases in depression. But she found only minimal evidence for depression decreasing self-esteem. However, when she looked at self-esteem and anxiety, Sowislo found that the relationship was more reciprocal, with both self-esteem and anxiety negatively affecting each other in similar ways. These findings provide additional and clear evidence of the importance of self-esteem in depression.

5. The results of the study were exactly what I thought that they would be. I can easily see how those with lower self-esteem could fall into the trap of depression. They already feel bad about themselves, so if just a few things happened in their lives that they perceived as negative, then it would be easy for them to slip just a little further away and into a depressed state. But someone who has always generally ok with themselves but happens to experience depression, more than likely after they receive treatment they will go back to being their old self. There are many reasons I believe this research was a good study. She shows collective data and her analysis was very broad and clear. Her research also states that it was a longitudinal study, so her findings are high in validity

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East Sussex Children’s Service and the East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership (ESSCP) has set an expectation that the named safeguarding link governors attend, prior to or shortly after appointment, in-depth face to face training delivered by the East Sussex Governor and Clerking Services.

This session will provide new safeguarding link governors the knowledge to work effectively with the school’s designated safeguarding lead (DSL) and ensure the governing body's responsibilities are being met.

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The course is designed to be interactive with a mixture of presentation and group discussion to update governors on current changes and provide practical solutions to monitoring and reporting on the school's safeguarding responsibilities, including using the East Sussex safeguarding link governors’ checklist.
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By the end of the course it is anticipated that new safeguarding link governors will:

  • Know the key aspects of monitoring responsibilities of the governing body

  • Understand the benefits and effectiveness of a safeguarding link governor’s checklist Have a practical approach planned to work effectively with the school's DSL

  • Have a practical approach to reporting outcomes to the governing body

 You will receive a certificate of attendance for verification for Ofsted on completion of the evaluation form at the end of the event.

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This course is for all new safeguarding link governors in East Sussex maintained primary, secondary and special schools, East Sussex primary, secondary and special academies, free schools and independent schools.

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New graphic novels, manga @ GPL

These are just a few of our new graphic novels and manga. Also of note: brand new copies of Jeff Smith’s “Bone” series.

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A recent query on FaceBook (Castlemania) got us thinking about bike helmet laws in Victoria. There was a question raised about whether a cyclist must wear a helmet whilst riding on a bike path.

The answer to that was easy. Yes, Victorian law requires helmets to be worn when riding a bicycle on a road, on a bike or shared path, in a bike lane, or in a recreational park.

Helmet photoBut then the questioner asked whether a bike helmet is required to be worn if riding a unicycle on a bike path. That’s when things got a little tricker. You would think the answer would be the same, right? Unicycles can travel pretty quickly and the rider is falling from the same height if they met with trouble. We couldn’t really see the difference.

However, under the Victorian Road Rules a unicycle is classified as a ‘wheeled recreational device’ and a person on a wheeled recreational device is a pedestrian, not a rider.  Therefore, a unicycle rider is not strictly required to wear a helmet. But you’d be mad not to, right?

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Wild Flowers & Noble Vines

There once was upon a time, in my younger days, when I had been taking great delight in building up my little back garden.  I had a pretty, brick, raised flowerbed built for me that made me feel very happy indeed as I worked hard to create a cohesive, attractive layout of plants & flowers within it.  Everything in the garden was looking simply rosy, and my gardening skills were growing little by little just as the flowers that I planted filled out the spaces to create a rather pleasing effect to the eye & a soothing effect on my heart & soul.  I could sit out there in the sunshine & enjoy the beauty of the work of my hands besides that flowerbed as I relaxed at the end of a day’s labours.

So all was rosy in the garden

Then one day, just as I was driving along, I saw a very beautiful white flower growing by the side of a road.  I quickly pulled up my car to take a closer look at this flower & as I did so and I gazed upon those intoxicatingly pretty white flowers I had a thought that went like this:

“Why pay for extra flowers from the garden center to fill my new flowerbed when such lovely flowers are available right here, right now, at no expense, completely free of charge?”

I thought they would look absolutely fantastic in my new flowerbed in my garden.  So, on the spur of the moment, I bent down & snapped off a small cutting from this plant!

When I arrived back home I simply stuck it into the soil of my flowerbed & thought, well it either grows or it doesn’t but at least it hasn’t cost me anything to try!

Well, it soon grew quite prolifically and then dutifully produced its display of beautiful white flowers, decorating my garden in a very pleasing way.  I felt a smug sense of satisfaction to see that it was clothing my trellis with its lovely trumpet shaped, pure white flowers which complemented the pink and purple flowers that were also in bloom at that time of year.

In a short space of time as it went on growing I one day happened to look more closely at this plant only to discover, to my absolute horror, that as a climbing plant it was wrapping its vicious tentacles around my other beloved plants, such as my clematis and my miniature roses!  With a slight, but growing, sense of dread, I decided to get it checked out in a plant & flower book & identified it as the “Common Bindweed”!!   Yes, the name says it all!  It was a weed, and I very soon found out why it was named thus!!

Well of course, those of you who have heard of this “weed” will have realised my folly from the start of this tale, but in due course, I learnt a really important life lesson from this plant which I will share with you, if you will bear with me.

Now it was WAR!!   man-with-sword

Anyway, I of course, attempted to frantically remove it.   I started digging down into the soil to try to dig it up, naively thinking that it would be a fairly simple matter to do so, but found, to my dismay, that the whole flowerbed was, by this point, completely riddled with the root system of this plant!  It was strangling every other plant in my garden both above and below ground.  I was devastated!  No longer was I lounging relaxedly in my sun-lounger.  No longer was “everything rosy in the garden”.  Now it was war!  War against weeds! A desperate attempt was now launched to try to save all my previous hard work, and expense, of the existing flowers and plants that had been planted and gently tended prior to this lapse of judgement on my part.

In the end I had to dig out the whole flowerbed and dispose of all the soil and most of the plants.  There was no other way to get rid of this invasive weed.  The only way it was contained was that the raised flowerbed had a lining that had stopped it encroaching into the wider garden as well.  As you can imagine, I vowed never to take a wild cutting again!

Whenever I see these flowers in the undergrowth by a roadside I always remember that folly of my youth.  I always remember the lesson that I learnt both about gardening but more importantly about our spiritual lives.

I felt that the Lord then allowed me to realise that my picking that flower without checking it out in a reference book & just adding it thoughtlessly to my garden was a vivid picture of what can happen to our Christian lives if we are not constantly vigilant about what we allow into our lives.  We can very easily be tempted by something that initially looks attractive but ultimately enslaves us and holds us tightly in its grip and then causes us to cease producing the fruits of the Spirit or the life that our Lord Jesus has designed for us.

We may allow something into our lives that initially looks good but maybe without muchfreely-10001_preview thought to check if it actually is “good for us”.

Today there are a HUGE amount of “things that appear like genuine Christianity” but many are actually not so!

There are many things that may initially appear very attractive; with pleasing music & much pleasant company, with comforting routines and easy-listening soundbite-services; with sumptuous Jacobs-join feasts & church-family outings.  (Not that these things are necessarily wrong, of course, it is just that we must consider what doctrines we go along with to be part of such pleasant routines).

There may be differing doctrines on offer & maybe you feel it is OK to just pick this one or that one that “seems OK to you” & add it to your life & your belief system just to see how it will grow.  But what I have learnt (much of it learnt the hard way of painful experience) is that just as I should never have added that flower to my garden there are many things masquerading as Christian today that will entangle your life in the vice-like grip of the enemy of your soul until all the beauty of the true life of Christ in you will be strangled to a life of unfruitfulness for the Lord.  In fact, Satan, as a great deceiver, will drag you down with his various weed-like entanglements that lead to full-blown sin against God if not checked in time.

I have just notice the following passage in Jeremiah chapter two, where God is expressing his verdict of the backslidden, idolatrous condition of the people of that day, who ought to have been loving and obeying Him.  Jeremiah writes from the Lord:

“Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?  But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.  Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, and very desolate, says the Lord.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water…..

Yet I had planted you as a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?”
(Jer 2:11-13 & 21)

But it is not hopeless! Rather the contrary, as Jesus is all-powerful to set us free from all that binds us, should we wish to be free that is.  He shed His blood just so we could be free.  By confessing our sins and foolishness before Him, in humility, we can be released from the devil’s schemes and the things we haphazardly allowed to take root and grow in our lives.  Things that we believed or practiced which the Lord reveals to those who seek “His Truth”, as abhorrent in His eyes.  We should always check the reference book, which is of course, the Bible, to learn what is “good to believe & to do”.  We shouldn’t be foolish in believing that all that looks attractive will produce good fruit in our lives.

Let us cry out to the Lord, to be much more discerning in what we accept as “truth”.  Let us be more like the Bereans who were commended for checking out the the scriptures to see if the new information they were told was in fact correct.

Be wise, not foolish!

I was a great fool in regards to that wild flower when I thought, “well it either grows or it doesn’t but at least it hasn’t cost me anything to try!”  The cost was that my whole flower bed & all its previous (& hard worked for) contents had to be completely destroyed!  Do we want our lives to end up in such a mess simply because we have been rather too complacent with attractive things we added, a little too thoughtlessly perhaps, to our lives without checking the reference guide thoroughly?

May the Lord increase all our spiritual discernment & desire for holiness in an ever increasing fashion.

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  1. I love this! Though I am very sorry that happened to your beautiful garden 😢 Praise The Lord for the lessoned you learned physically but most definitely spiritually! I will be sharing this post on my blog and with family and friends ❤

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  2. Deuteronomy 22:9-11
    “You shall not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole crop be forfeited [under this ban], the seed which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard forfeited to the sanctuary. You shall not plow with an ox [a clean animal] and a donkey [unclean] together. You shall not wear a garment of mingled stuff, wool and linen together.” Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

    Dearest Helen, how much my heart and spirit witness to what you write! I thought of the above verses while reading your article. How much the wild flowers are trying to take over the territory from the noble vines these days! My Lindsell study Bible says in Ps 16:3 “I want the company of the godly men and women in the land; they are the true nobility.” Jesus only had 11 true disciples and then only 120 in the Upper Upper Room – but they preached the Living Word and went out into the world in His Name. In the end He wins. That’s all that matters.

    If the Lord leads, pray for us please. We just discovered that my husband is to have open heart surgery to repair a 60% blocked artery, replace an aortic valve and take out and replace part of his aorta. This was unexpected – but God knew about it🙂. And this morning I was told that my five week-long headache is being caused by MRSA, not one of the niftiest things to have. I will finish my one month dose of steroids and sulfur drugs one week before John’s surgery. We’ve chosen to think all this will make a wonderful testimony especially for our unsaved relatives. He’s a loving, caring and wonderful God – we’re in His hands.

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    • Thank you kindly for your input Barbara.

      I think that all readers of the Bible will eventually learn to appreciate that God is a jealous God, who doesn’t want us complacently mixing other beliefs and practices with our faith in Him. He wants us to be faithful to Him alone. Just as in a good and Godly marriage.

      And on that note, I will just add that I have prayed for both yourself and your husband. I cannot imagine suffering from a headache for such a long period of time. I have had bad migranes that have lasted 2 or 3 days and that was bad enough. I will continue to pray for you both.
      With much love to you x

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      • Beautiful response, Helen. I will pray for Barbara and her husband’s upcoming surgery as well.

        Much peace and love in the Lord Jesus,.

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  3. Helen, you have expressed so beautifully what has been in my heart lately. May I repost? This is a real-life-lesson I want to share. God bless you. And may He give us wisdom to recognize the weeds.

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    • Hi Connie
      Thank you for your kind comment.
      Of course you may reblog this post. I write to help people to draw closer to living how God wants, so the more the message is spread the better to reach more people. Win, win, as they say 😃
      Helen x

  4. Beautiful message and analogy that we as Christians can gleen from – always leading us back to the True source of wisdom of God’s Word.
    Thank you for sharing Helen.

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  5. Hi Helen
    Enjoyed your gardening story of the Common Bindweed. Not much different from what happened in the Garden of Eden Genesis chapter 3 when the serpent tempted Eve & then Adam, with that nice looking but deadly fruit, that brought sin & death into the world. See Ro5:12.

    Also, thank you for reading & liking my post True Love Vs False Love.. My focus is on the Endtimes, so I have many posts regarding the End, the Rapture, & the return of Jesus Christ.

    God bless you & yours,
    Aloha & Agape,
    Wyman ~ aka Drgold wyman@hawaii.rr.com

    • Hi Wyman,

      Thanks for your comment. You’re quite right in your observation re the original temptation of sin to pick and eat what God had clearly told Adam & Eve NOT to pick and eat. Same old story! There are always rules that are for our own good – if only we would heed them, life would be a whole lot easier.

      God bless,

  6. What a great object lesson!
    I think it’s interesting that one of the reasons you liked the idea of transplanting the weed was that it was “free.” How many people get into trouble with false “Christianity” because they don’t want to pay the price (commitment/obedience) for the real thing?

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    • Yes, I think you are spot on with your observation ‘re the price. Jesus told us to “count the cost” of following Him. Though salvation is “free,” there is still a great cost in being an obedient disciple or follower of the Lord.

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    • Yes, free, easy, and pleasing to the eye, and perhaps we can include the ear also, if we consider the initial thought – “Why pay for extra flowers…………………”

      What a great example, Helen, it reminds me though, of the very thing that led me to your blog in the first place, the ‘Toronto Blessing,’ and ‘being slain in the spirit.’ I began trying to warn people about the phenomenon, and the false doctrine of ‘Binding,’ and ‘Loosing,’ very nearly twenty years ago now, writing to churches around the World, posting comments on the net, though there were few around at that time that so clearly used Scripture as you have, Helen, to sound a clear warning accurately, with Wisdom.

      In recent years I have only really kept and a periodic eye on what is on the net, as I was so often seeing nothing new, nothing clear and informative, just even greater confusion, that really wasn’t helping, and actually led to a sense of great disappointment, and being alone, and in this country, England. It seemed almost no-one at all was watching, and sounding a clear warning, even Churches that I telephoned to seek their understanding of the situation, either had nothing to say, or even actually refused to say anything to me about the subject, and that was a church of good reputation among people in the area – I was desperately searching for fellowship, but found none that I felt comfortable with.

      I too had to go back to the start, to dig out all the false doctrine, or rather, let God dig out all the false doctrine that had been planted in my heart and mind, and it was hard work indeed, exhausting in so many ways; getting every little bit out, or at least as much as possible to date – assuming nothing – took time. It was much quicker for the false doctrine to be planted in the first place it would seem, just as with your cutting, Helen.

      (Edited here for length & off topic)

      I had to come to one conclusion, all things happen in due season; any powerful deception allowed by God, is serving the purpose for which it is allowed, and I know that to be true, and it will run its course until God puts a stop to it, as and when He chooses to, and not before; it is right that we sound the warning, it is, because the warning sound helps save those who will listen, by leading, prompting, encouraging people to seek Scripture and find Truth within God’s Word, that they might know accurately what has been said, and what has been commanded, and escape the snare, but that being said, the deception is serving a purpose – if we love Him, we will keep His commandments, our purpose, is to help people come to know those commandments, to spread The Gospel, the choice they make is their own.

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Posts Tagged ‘Florida Marlins attendance’

Shot of smallest crowd in Major League history

August 25, 2011

With Hurricane Irene possibly bearing down, Wednesday’s baseball game between the Florida Marlins and Cincinnati Reds had an unofficial attendance of just 347 fans. That would be a new low for fan attendance in MLB history. However, the official attendance for the game will be listed at 10,000 plus-the actual number of tickets sold. Not the number of fans who really attended the game.

Apparently there are better things to do in Miami than go to a baseball game

June 10, 2011

Florida Marlins attendance is atrocious

The Marlins should play their games in Helms Deep

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September 4, 2008

Fewer than 600 fans reportedly showed up to yesterday afternoon’s Florida Marlins game against the Atlanta Braves.


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Gorgeous Baby Blanket

I am just a little bit in love with this version of the Silsden baby blanket I designed for Eden Cottage Yarns. Crocheted in Whitfell DK (a gorgeous 100% baby alpaca), this yarn crochets up into a butter soft fabric.

Laura has only been crocheting a few months and has made a fabulous job of this blanket. The pattern is worked entirely in double crochet and is very easy for a beginner. You can buy the yarn from the Eden Cottage Yarns online shop and you’ll find the Silsden blanket pattern on Ravelry. Of course, if blankets aren’t your thing, but you like the look of this beautiful yarn; you’ll find plenty of pattern inspiration on this  dedicated page on the Eden Cottage Yarns website. Thanks Laura for sending me this beautiful photo – congratulations on completing your first blanket.

Happy Making xxx


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Songs of the Week: Foo Fighters Aren’t Rock Stars, They’re HBO

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Foo Fighters, “Something From Nothing”

After approximately 1.3 million trailers, the new Foo Fighters miniseries Sonic Highways premieres tonight on HBO. I look forward to seeing it, though the sluggish “Something From Nothing” is more nothing than something. Which is disappointing, because while Foo Fighters haven’t put out a top-to-bottom great album since The Colour and the Shape (though 2011’s Wasting Light came surprisingly close), this has long been mainstream rock’s most reliable singles band. I suspect (or strongly hope) that something catchier-slash-punchier is coming on the horizon.

Run the Jewels, “Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)”

That song title writes an enormous check and damn it if Run the Jewels don’t cash the shit out of it. The bare-knuckle bravado of Killer Mike and El-P’s 2013 debut is in full effect here, if not more so. I never thought I’d enjoy hearing Zach de la Rocha on a song in 2014, but it’s hard to argue when there’s a boot pressing hard on your neck.

Ex Hex, “Waterfall”

I suppose it’s possible to not fall in love with this band after watching this video. But I would never want to contemplate being so miserable.

Angaleena Presley, “American Middle Class” (Live on The Late Show With David Letterman)

Presley is one-third of the country super-group Pistol Annies, and she’s pitched at the midpoint between the feistiness of Miranda Lambert and the melancholy of Ashley Monroe. On her strong new album, American Middle Class, Presley sings with an Everywoman, I’m-just-tryin’-to-get-through-this-damn-day resolve on a song cycle examining the cruddy, mundane drudgery lurking beneath all those truck songs on country radio. She wouldn’t be in Pistol Annies if she didn’t have the goods as a songwriter, though the production on American Middle Class occasionally lacquers over her rough edges unnecessarily. This live version of the title track from Letterman compensates nicely in this regard.

Foxygen, “Coulda Been My Love”

I loved Foxygen’s breakthrough 2012 EP, Take the Kids Off Broadway, which sounded like a dozen oldies radio stations playing a dozen different songs at the same time. It seemed like this band had found a way to take the basic components of classic rock and twist them into bat-shit songs that resembled phantasmagoric balloon animals. Ever since then, however, Foxygen has struggled to integrate its knack for pastiche with its impulse to totally weird the fuck out. The new … And Star Power either goes one way or the other, and it’s never completely satisfying, though Foxygen’s scattershot aim hits enough times to stick around for the next LP. On the pastiche side, “Coulda Been My Love” is a perfect Todd Rundgren song played somewhat imperfectly.

Revocation, “Deathless”

Your mid-column heavy-metal smoke break, courtesy of Revocation’s new LP, Deathless.

Raspberry Bulbs, “Light Surrounds Me”

As an avowed fan of wussy metal, I’m obviously onboard with any band that can effectively combine black metal and Cheap Trick.

Little Big League, “Property Line”

I have this rule that whenever I write the Songs of the Week column I have to include at least one really good band from Philadelphia. Actually, it’s not a rule, it’s just something that always seems to happen, because when it comes to pretty pop songs played by guitar-centric rock combos, Philadelphia is basically where it’s at right now. Little Big League’s sophomore LP, Tropical Jinx, hits that sweet spot between heart-tugging emo and chunky old-school indie, with the occasional French horn solo that raises the emotional stakes. “Property Line” is a breakup song — singer Michelle Zauner calls out her ex for being a bully and consoles herself by remembering the time she worked with her dad clearing blackberry bramble, her hometown blue-collar work ethic shielding her briefly from heartache.

Cool Ghouls, “What a Dream I Had”

If you plan on trick-or-treating this year, I don’t recommend dropping acid beforehand. But if you do drop acid beforehand, play this song.

Twerps, “Back to You”

I have an ambivalent relationship with year-end lists: I recognize that they’re reductive and maybe a little stupid, but as a cog in the entertainment journalism machine, my brain has been trained to examine culture in 12-month intervals and pull out my favorites from those intervals in numerical order. Right now, I’m involuntarily pondering my 2014 list and (thanks to Twerps’ forthcoming Range Anxiety, due in early 2015) my list for next year. What the hell is wrong with me? I don’t blame these wistful Australians, all they did was make a captivating record. I’m just sick in the head.

Filed Under: Music, Songs of the Week, Foo Fighters, run the jewels, zach de la rocha, ex hex, foxygen, angaleena presley, revocation, raspberry bulbs, the twerps

Steven Hyden is a staff writer for Grantland. His first book, Your Favorite Band is Killing Me, will be released in May.

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Smith Micro launches Anime Studio Pro 11

Smith Micro Software’s latest version of its award-winning 2D animation software, Anime Studio Pro 11, includes “new features that serious animators will find invaluable.” They include: Frame-by-frame animation capabilities in addition to its Smart Bone animation system that sets up bones as control dials. Now, users can choose either method to suit their workflow or … Read more →

Avanti Users Group Conference set for October 6

Registration is now open for Avanti’s Annual User Group Conference, October 6 – 9, 2015 at the Marriott Niagara Falls Hotel Fallsview & Spa in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Following last year’s most successful conference ever, the Canadian print MIS leader will once again have a great line-up of speakers as well as Avanti customers from … Read more →

KBA sheetfed LED-UV drying technology now modular

KBA’s research and development team in Germany, along with its ink partners, have successfully integrated instant cure-to-print technology as a modular, interchangeable LED-UV curing platform into its press line. Called VariDry LED-UV, the system’s notable advantages include: Low energy costs to power LED-UV – a savings “up to 50%” in power consumption and energy costs … Read more →

ACE Awards honour top public relations firms

The Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) Toronto Chapter honoured the Greater Toronto Area’s best Public Relations (PR) professionals at its Achieving Communications Excellence (ACE) Awards Gala. Attended by over 300, the ceremony at Arcadian Court in downtown Toronto Wednesday, May 30 is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the accomplishments of PR professionals. The … Read more →

Competitors Mohawk and Arjowiggins announce first partnership of its kind in the fine paper industry

Mohawk (North America’s largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing) and Arjowiggins Creative Papers (a world-leading manufacturer of creative and technical papers with manufacturing facilities in Europe and Asia), have announced a unique and exclusive alliance. Through this exclusive arrangement, Mohawk and Arjowiggins will share best-in-class manufacturing … Read more →

FPAC and PwC release new Buyers’ Guide to Canada’s Sustainable Forest Products

Two Sides North America has revealed that The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and PwC Canada have released an updated 32-page Buyers’ Guide to Canada’s Sustainable Forest Products so that customers can be well informed and confident that their purchasing decisions are environmentally and socially responsible. The guide provides practical advice to help ensure … Read more →

DuraFast adds DPR Unwinder/Rewinder System for Epson

Toronto-based DuraFast Label is now shipping the Unwinder and Rewinder System for the Epson GP-C831 GHS Label Printer. Pairing the label printer with the new unwinder/rewinder results in a complete, extremely economical GHS label production solution that helps to automate label production. “The Epson GP-C831, or ColorWorks C831 as it’s also known, provides the best … Read more →

Drytac releases ReTac Duo double-sided wall adhesive

Drytac has added ReTac Duo, a clear double-sided wall adhesive, to its line of mounting adhesives. The new product has a 1-mil clear polyester carrier and features a permanent adhesive on one side and ReTac ultra removable adhesive on the other. Designed specifically for removable wall and window graphics, ReTac Duo can be used to … Read more →

Komcan partners with Air Motion to offer UV curing

Air Motion Systems (AMS), a leader in UV Curing Technologies, and Komcan, the sole agent for Komori in Ontario and Western Canada, have entered into a strategic partnership to offer AMS’ groundbreaking LED UV and UV curing technologies to Komcan customers. “Komcan Incorporated is excited to be working with a world-class company like AMS,” said … Read more →


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Robots hardwired for contract spraying

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A pair of agricultural weed spraying robots

A pair of agricultural robots, or Swarmbots, working together to spray weeds on the Bate family’s property on 22 March at Gindie, Central Queensland.

PHOTO: SwarmFarm Robotics

Central Queensland grower Andrew Bate announced the imminent commercial release of an agricultural robot purpose-built for killing weeds, in a presentation at the Australian Summer Grains Conference.

The founding director of SwarmFarm Robotics, Mr Bate said the lightweight farm robots or ‘Swarmbots’ would be put to work on-farm using a range of weed-control technologies following their official launch in late March.

The release follows proof-of-concept trials in 2013 and 2014, and commercial trials in 2015 on the Bate family’s 4000-hectare mixed-farming operation, 20 kilometres south-west of Emerald.

These trials have seen the automated design evolve from a golf-buggy set-up to a self-propelled three-point linkage bar to the finished product: an articulated design loaded with computer hardware and an eight-metre spray boom that runs on four wheels.

Mr Bate said commercialisation of the Swarmbot is an unprecedented development in Australian robotic research that could spur “the next revolution in agriculture”.

This is because the farm robots are expected to cost considerably less than conventional spray rigs. They also have the potential to reduce soil compaction, and decrease expenditure on fuel and chemical inputs.

“In the past 20 years of agricultural automation research there’s been more than 50 prototypes built, tens of millions of dollars spent and not one thing commercialised to benefit industry,” Mr Bate said.

He said the robots will initially provide contracting services on growers’ properties in the Central Queensland area, meaning they will operate under the supervision of SwarmFarm technicians who will set up and oversee the automated work with a focus on killing weeds.

“To start with we’ll take the robots to growers and operate them. This is early-stage technology and there will be days when the robots have downtime because of that. We don’t want to frustrate people and create a bad name for the technology.”

He said the Swarmbot weed-control services are likely to be price competitive with the cost of hiring a contractor to spray weeds using a 36m boom.

On-farm launch

Portrait of Andrew Bate

SwarmFarm Robotics founding director and chief executive officer Andrew Bate announced the commercialisation of an agricultural robot for spraying weeds at the Australian Summer Grains Conference.

PHOTO: Clarisa Collis

In the wake of the Australian Summer Grains Conference, the on-farm launch of the Swarmbot attracted about 380 people to the Bates’ property, ‘Bendee’, at Gindie on 22 March.

Three farm robots, each equipped with different types of weed-control technology, showed how they can work together as a coordinated team using two-way radio signalling.

“They also use a mesh network for communications, and each robot has a repeater that allows them to bounce messages off one another so they are not reliant on mobile network coverage.”

The weed-control options demonstrated by the robots were WEEDit® and WeedSeeker® optical sensor technologies and conventional spraying.

SwarmFarm Robotics, which was listed in the top 20 Australian start-up companies in 2015, has partnered with Adama, the Fitzroy Basin Association, Elders, Westpac, the Central Highlands Regional Council and Telstra to commercialise the Swarmbot.

A case study tracking the progress of this robotic technology on a Queensland grower’s property will feature in a future issue of Ground Cover.

More information:

Andrew Bate,
07 4984 4027,
0428 186 371,

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Profitable header set-up

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Key points

  • A lower stubble height can benefit subsequent crops by allowing better weed control with herbicides and faster crop establishment.
  • Harvesting low can cost more: each 10cm reduction in harvest height results in an average 10 per cent reduction in speed.

A flexible approach to managing stubble means that crops can be harvested high or low, depending on the season, stubble load and weed management, and that various strategies can be implemented post-harvest if required, depending on seeder type, the following crop and the farming system. Large stubble loads can potentially create challenges for all sowing systems and influence the ability of seedlings to emerge, the type and effectiveness of herbicides that can be applied, the ability of the crop protection chemicals to reach the intended target (soil, weed, pest or crop), and the effect that thick stubble load can have on emerging seedlings.

Harvest height

Harvesting high or using a stripper front are the quickest and most efficient methods and produce the least amount of residue, which needs to be threshed, chopped and spread as evenly as possible. As part of the GRDC’s Stubble Initiative several farming systems groups and CSIRO compared harvest efficiency and costs at different harvest heights (Table 1). As a general rule, there is a 10 per cent reduction in harvest speed for every 10-centimetre reduction in harvest height, meaning it can cost significantly more to harvest low.

Tall standing stubble is more suited to disc-seeding operations, or where post-harvest operations, such as grazing, mulching, incorporation (with or without added nutrients), baling or burning are planned. However, there can be some negatives to retaining tall stubble. Several groups found that wheat sown into taller wheat stubble (45cm compared with 15cm) received less solar radiation and may be exposed to cooler temperatures, which can reduce early growth and tiller numbers.

Table 1 Harvesting wheat in 2014 at Streatham, Victoria, at three harvest heights (engine load = 90%) using a Case IH 9120 header and cost analysis determined at contract rates of $400 per hour.

Stubble height Average speed (km/h) Percentage difference in km/h Time to harvest 100ha (hours) Harvest costs
Fuel cost
Cost ($/ha)
50cm 7.05 15cm vs 50cm = 38.3% 8.3 3305 789 $41
30cm 5.45 30cm vs 50cm = 22.7% 10.7 4264 1040 $53
15cm 4.35 15cm vs 30cm = 20.2% 13.3 5332 1272 $66

SOURCE: Southern Farming Systems

Weed management

Herbicide-resistant weeds have also become a problem in the modern stubble-retained farming system and harvest height is an important factor in the successful implementation of non-chemical harvest weed-seed control techniques, such as chaff carts, chaff decks, narrow windrow burning and, more recently, use of the Integrated Harrington Seed Destructor (iHSD).

The prototype iHSD was tested at Furner, South Australia; Inverleigh, Victoria; and Temora, NSW (by MacKillop Farm Management Group, Southern Farming Systems and FarmLink Research) in 2015-2016, at a constant speed of four kilometres per hour, to compare efficiency and cost. At Furner, reducing the harvest height from 30cm to 15cm increased the engine load by 10 per cent and fuel use by 15 per cent (Table 2). Activating the prototype iHSD further increased engine load and fuel use.

While the iHSD works well, the major issue is getting the weed seeds into the harvester front. Harvest height is critical. Research by Dr John Broster, from Charles Sturt University, shows that about 88 per cent of annual ryegrass was captured when harvesting at 10cm compared with 48 per cent at 40cm, depending on the season, ryegrass maturity at harvest and orientation.

Table 2 A Case IH 9120 harvesting wheat conventionally at 30cm, 15cm for baling or narrow windrow burning, or at 15cm with prototype iHSD in Furner, SA, in 2016.

Harvest height Grain yield (t/ha) Speed (km/h) Engine load (%) Fuel use (L/ha)
30cm 4.7 3.8 59.8 14.3
15cm 4.6 4.0 65.5 16.4
% change from 30cm to 15cm ns ns +10% +15%
15cm + iHSD 4.6 4.0 88.7 22.7
% change from 15cm to 15cm + iHSD ns ns +35% +38%

SOURCE: Mackillop Farm Management Group

Contributors to this research were: Birchip Cropping Group, CSIRO, Central West Farming Systems, FarmLink Research, MacKillop Farm Management Group, Riverine Plains, Southern Farming Systems and Yeruga Crop Research.

GRDC Research Codes BWD00024, CSP00186, CWF00018, CSP00174, MFM00006, RPI00009, SFS00032, YCR00003

More information:

Tony Swan, CSIRO
02 6246 5142


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Early History, Minoan, Mycenaean, Dorian Illustration

Lesson Plans
Early Greek History

Minoans, Mycenaeans, Dorians, & the Greek Dark Ages
For Teachers

Lesson Ideas: First have kids read about the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the hated Dorians. Then enter the Greek Dark Ages. The Greeks became one people during the Greek Dark Ages in a great part because of the ancient Greek storytellers. Stories were about gods, heroes, and legends. This gave the Greeks a common language and a common culture. Group activity. Have each group pick a story to tell the class. They can use posters, costumes, simple masks, but no music. (It's too noisy for other classrooms.)

See Also: Units & Overviews for Ancient Greece

Greek Interactive Games

Ancient Greece for Kids

Other Lesson Plans for Ancient Greece


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By: Jalynn Johnson, CSW

Welcome back! This is Part 2 of 3 on Dr. Dan Siegel’s book, No Drama Discipline. If you missed Part 1, go and check it out! We covered how we can change our discipline philosophy to parent from an intentional place, rather than from a place of reactivity. We also learned about how our child’s brain is growing and developing, and how that needs to be taken into consideration as we parent and redirect our children. These next chapters will address how to help our child move from having a tantrum to a more calm and teachable state. To carry that further, the next chapter gives information on steps parents can take to really put this No-drama parenting into action.

Connection is the tool that is addressed in this chapter. It is the tool that can help our children regulate. It can help a child move from reactivity to receptivity. Throughout a meltdown or outburst, it is important that we stay emotionally connected to our child. We stay connected by staying near them, or in the same room, we provide empathic words such as: “That would make me upset too!” and we offer physical touch, such as sitting close, holding a hand, rocking, etc. This connection will deepen your relationship with your child. They may know that you will be there for them through the good (at their performances, snuggling reading a book) but now you will show them that you will also stick around for the bad. Work hard to make connection your first response.

Connection Principle #1: Turn Down the Shark Music
When we parent out of fear and on past experiences that don’t apply to the current situation we miss out on what is actually happening and do not cater to the child’s needs in the current moment. We still need to pay attention to patterns of behavior over time. We cannot get trapped in a state of denial and give excuses for our kid’s behaviors. Sometimes we do need to expect more of them and have them take more responsibility. This is always done wisely when parenting intentionally and in the moment.

Connection Principle #2: Chase the Why
Be a curious parent, chase the why. I wonder why my child did that? What is she wanting here? Is she asking something? What is she communicating? Remember, do not ASK the why, CHASE the why. Ask these questions to yourself. A lot of times children don’t understand why they did something, they don’t have the proper language to express it. That is why you as a parent, who is higher functioning, need to be curious, open, and empathic to the child and figure out what could be behind the behaviors.

Connection Principle #3: Think About the How
What we say is just as important as HOW we say it. What is your tone of voice? Is it shaming? An example: “Get in bed now or you won’t get any stories” vs. “If you get in bed now, we’ll have time to read. But if you don’t get in bed right away, we’ll run out of time and have to skip reading.” What a difference!

No-Drama Connection Cycle

Strategy #1: Communicate comfort
Words are helpful to help calm a child, but what is even more important are the non-verbals of nurturing, mainly touch.

Strategy #2: Validate, validate, validate
We need to let our kids know that we hear them, that we’re with them in the middle of all those big feelings and we’ll always be there, even if they’re at their worst. When we tell our kids how to feel or how to not feel we invalidate their experience. We can first identify the emotion for them and then connect with it.

Strategy #3: Stop Talking and Listen
A child isn’t capable of responding to logic when in a heightened emotional state. Sometimes talking a lot can make it worse, it floods the child and leads to more dysregulation. Instead, sit with your child and listen to them. Give them time to express themselves.

Strategy #4: Reflect What You Hear
Step back and reflect to your child what they’ve said, communicating to them that they’ve been heard. Let them know you understand their experience, you can help soothe their big emotions, calm their inner chaos, and lead them to use their upstairs brain.